Comments on: Book Review – Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Austen and Grahame-Smith

By: Kaylene

Kaylene — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:58:06 +0000

This was an interesting perspective on the book I hav to say. I had to choose btwn P.P. & PPZ to read for my a.p. english class & i slightly wish i read this review b4 i finished PPZ. I def think it ruined the story not 2 mention the zombie scenes were half-fast & did nothing to rly enhance the original story

By: Ren

Ren — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:59:59 +0000

Interesting review – I first saw the book and while P&P is my fav. Austen novel, I was quite amused and was willing to give it a go.
I actually really liked this review as it seems to be quite fair but I’ll probably get around to reading the novel eventually…

By: Michael Gordon

Michael Gordon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:42:27 +0000

My wife was disgusted with the idea of PPZ, but I was hopeful that it would be clever. I read the first sentence and had to agree with her. It was entirely without merit. I didn’t get past the first paragraph.

By: Cluegirl

Cluegirl — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:46:35 +0000

I tried to read the book, but abandoned it in disgust halfway through. The research was shoddily done, what writing Grahame-Smith actually did was shoddy and sophomoric, and as you said, the combat scenes dragged the story down rather than enhancing it.

It might have been a fantastic book, if only the writer had actually LIKED his source material enough to consider it worth a little effort, research, and respect.

I wrote my own review of the book — what I read of it, — and ended it with: “In short; a neat idea, and I wish a better writer had thought of it.”

What I did not know before reading your review, however, was that this represents not an unfortunate anomaly, but a trend. And I am flat-out appalled to hear that all the targets of this remix-mania will be women writers.