Tolstoy Is Not Amused

Hey, when the Jane Austen re-write titled Pride and Prejudice and Zombies came out, I laughed. But I think this sort of riffing on the classics may have gotten a bit old now that I see there's a forthcoming book called Android Karenina (a take-off on Tolstoy's classic Anna Karenina).
Over here, Jay Parini (author of a novel about Tolstoy titled The Last Station) said the author would have been "horrified by the notion of changing his work in absurd ways for the purposes of amusement."
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