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Zombie Notes: A Study Guide To The Best In Undead Literary Classics
While scores of English teachers around the world ramble on about motifs, iambic pentameter, and deus ex machina, hordes of brain-swilling zombies and neck-chomping vampires are invading the major works of the world’s greatest authors!
Now, Melville's infamous creature of the deep is actually a zombie whale. And while Will Shakespeare’s rhyme scheme ties tongues in knots, Hamlet’s uncle has become a villainous vampire in royal robes. That sexy beast Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter? He’s even sexier and beastlier . . . now that he’s a werewolf.
Zombie Notes will quickly bring you up to speed on what's lurking in the literary canon. A study guide to literature's most famous scenes of love, heroism, brain letting, and countlessdecapitations, it is sure to reanimate your passion for the Great Books.
Now, Melville's infamous creature of the deep is actually a zombie whale. And while Will Shakespeare’s rhyme scheme ties tongues in knots, Hamlet’s uncle has become a villainous vampire in royal robes. That sexy beast Arthur Dimmesdale in The Scarlet Letter? He’s even sexier and beastlier . . . now that he’s a werewolf.
Zombie Notes will quickly bring you up to speed on what's lurking in the literary canon. A study guide to literature's most famous scenes of love, heroism, brain letting, and countlessdecapitations, it is sure to reanimate your passion for the Great Books.
200 pages, Paperback
First published September 18, 2009
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November 17, 2019
I can definitely see how some people would find this funny, but my tastes must not be refined enough yet because this wasn’t really my cup of tea.
Maybe I’ll try this out again in the future once I’ve read all the original classics.
Maybe I’ll try this out again in the future once I’ve read all the original classics.
September 6, 2010
Meh.
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
was fun, but this book is basically a ripoff of the same. I didn't find it funny at all and all the zombies etc. just seemed to be painted on. Perhaps if I'd actually read the real books in question I would have liked this parody better.
June 10, 2023
We start out with M.s Tushie and Mr. Longstaff. Really? how childish! The audience that might read these "cliff notes" , those that have heard (or maybe read) of these books will be about 5-15 years past that childhood 'humor'. Anyone that appreciates that humor is probably still reading Charlotte's Web, not Melville.
Frankenstein's monster, as a **literary** creature, did not have a bolts in his neck. That is a copyrighted feature and invention of the make-up genius Jack Pierce. Also, anachronistic.
Did Rozakis even read the literary works in question?
Not even worth the one star rating I gave it, but alas, goodreads won't allow a rating of 0 stars.
Frankenstein's monster, as a **literary** creature, did not have a bolts in his neck. That is a copyrighted feature and invention of the make-up genius Jack Pierce. Also, anachronistic.
Did Rozakis even read the literary works in question?
Not even worth the one star rating I gave it, but alas, goodreads won't allow a rating of 0 stars.
May 8, 2021
I want these to be real books/movies.
It Pride and Prejudice and zombies can be made
why not these?
It Pride and Prejudice and zombies can be made
why not these?
January 15, 2014
I had high hopes for this book. I got it as a Christmas present and it looked [to the giver and myself] like a really interesting book. Unfortunately that is not the case.
It is hard for me to fathom that the author has a Ph.D. as the attempts at humor are so juvenile as that found on middle-school bathroom walls [however this book is NOT suitable for that age group].
The literary allusions are not done well especially for a book purporting to be a study guide on the same. The undead lore is convoluted to the point of ridiculousness. Vampires and zombies are one thing but are werewolves even considered to be undead?
The author also has a political agenda which seeps through from time-to-time. I don't read a book like this to be insulted with anti-conservative diatribe but that is what happened. I can laugh at political humor even when it is directed at me if it is done well- here it is not. It is not funny. It is not clever. It is not even fitting.
The anachronisms are ridiculous to the point of absurdity. It is one thing for the author to compare Moby Dick to the size of an airliner but it is quite another to have a character from the novel do so.
All in all my best advice is avoid this book like the zombie plague.
It is hard for me to fathom that the author has a Ph.D. as the attempts at humor are so juvenile as that found on middle-school bathroom walls [however this book is NOT suitable for that age group].
The literary allusions are not done well especially for a book purporting to be a study guide on the same. The undead lore is convoluted to the point of ridiculousness. Vampires and zombies are one thing but are werewolves even considered to be undead?
The author also has a political agenda which seeps through from time-to-time. I don't read a book like this to be insulted with anti-conservative diatribe but that is what happened. I can laugh at political humor even when it is directed at me if it is done well- here it is not. It is not funny. It is not clever. It is not even fitting.
The anachronisms are ridiculous to the point of absurdity. It is one thing for the author to compare Moby Dick to the size of an airliner but it is quite another to have a character from the novel do so.
All in all my best advice is avoid this book like the zombie plague.
November 8, 2011
This is a great way to see how some of your favorite classics would be changed into supernatural (zombie, werewolf, or vampire) fantasies without having to reread (or rewrite) the whole book. Very entertaining!
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