{"id":3219,"date":"2012-04-30T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T19:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hotnerdgirl.wordpress.com\/?p=3219"},"modified":"2024-02-28T09:32:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T09:32:21","slug":"pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hotnerdgirl.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/30\/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-oh-my\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – OH MY!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wanna make out?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a nerd in possession of an illness must go on a Jane Austen bender.<\/p>\n

At least it does for this nerd.<\/p>\n

For someone who fancies themselves a writer (or an aspiring one at least) I don\u2019t write nearly enough about books. Which is strange considering the rate in which I devour them.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know what it is but whenever I get sick (I\u2019m just about recovered from the second illness in a row) I become obsessed with something and hunt down every form of it that I can. About half the time it\u2019s Jane Austen.<\/p>\n

What can I say? I\u2019m a chick.<\/p>\n

So it was this last time around. I watched every version of Pride and Prejudice<\/em> I own (1980, 1995, and 2005 twice), Sense & Sensibility<\/em>, Emma<\/em>, Becoming Jane<\/em>, Lost in Austen<\/em>\u2026I even watched Vanity Fair<\/em> hoping it would be Austen-esque (it wasn\u2019t, it was awful in spite of all the great actors in it). And I finally got around to reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Girls! The Pentagram of Death!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I don\u2019t know about you but I always have a stack of books as tall as I am that I need to read. \u00a0I go through them pretty quickly but I\u2019m constantly adding to it so the pile never really shrinks. And I just can\u2019t bring myself to use the Kindle. I love the smell and the look and the feel of books too much. I have a BookMate and that\u2019s good enough for me. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em> has been in that pile for years now. Probably longer than any other book. I didn\u2019t pick it up for two reasons. The first being that when I got it I was on another Austen bender and had just reread the OG P&P<\/em>, Darcy\u2019s Story<\/em> and Mr. Darcy, Vampyre<\/em> and I was kind of Austened out. The second reason is that it has zombies. And y\u2019all know that my biggest fear is zombies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And the Violator.<\/p>\n

And Fire Marshall Bill.<\/p>\n

But mostly zombies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But every time I went to the pile my eyes would inevitably land on the Seth Grahame-Smith redux. I knew it would be good; I\u2019d read and fell in love with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter<\/em> (which I HIGHLY recommend). So on a (totally inevitable) whim I grabbed it from the pile last week.<\/p>\n

To my very pleasant surprise I not only loved it but it didn\u2019t scare me. No nightmares, no heart palpitations, no slamming it shut. I even studied the pictures with glee! Though I\u2019ll probably never look at cauliflower the same way again\u2026 but mostly I laughed. A lot.<\/p>\n

Mmmmmm....cauliflower brains......<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of all Jane Austen\u2019s characters, I\u2019ve always related the most to Elizabeth Bennet. She\u2019s stubborn, witty, and says things that are borderline inappropriate. I would really like to believe that, in the event of a zombie apocalypse, I would rise to the occasion as a zombie slayer like the Lizzy in this version (albeit without the slow zombification of my BFF). Imagining her kicking Darcy in the face had me in stitches for a good 5 minutes at least. Seeing Lady Catherine de Bourgh make her do one-fingered handstands and fight ninjas was epic. Even the detail of modifying the questions printed at the end was hysterical.<\/p>\n

Take that you woeful wooer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And now the truth. I feel like I\u2019m going to end up in literary hell for saying this, but I actually enjoyed it more than the original.<\/p>\n

There. I said it.<\/p>\n

Now please excuse me while I go and administer the seven cuts of shame.<\/p>\n

***<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.\u201d<\/p>\n

I do, Mr. Darcy! I do!<\/p>\n

On to\u00a0Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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