Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

I wonder if people would have felt differently about this book if the author writing the zombie sections had been a woman. Having a male author inject zombie fight scenes into Jane Austen, though sort of a cute gimmick, maybe have been a missed opportunity to actually say something clever about Austen's project. I wonder if there is a woman author out there who could have looked at an Austen-novel/horror mash-up as a way to comment on just how dire and precarious the life of an unmarried woman in Regency England was. Just a thought ...

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Comment by Katie Henderson on January 27, 2010 at 2:25pm: Not only that, but Seth Grahame-Smith landed an incredibly lucrative book deal after P&P&Z. Perhaps it will turn out that he's a great new talent, but for now it does feel like he got a bit of a break at the expense of poor Jane.

Comment by Kymberly Levesque on January 27, 2010 at 2:15pm: I'm in complete agreement with you. I thought the additional scenes were poorly written and that the author had no more than a basic knowledge of the work. Reading it felt like an insult and I ended up quitting. And it's going to be a movie!