...And Zombies

While standing in line at Smith's, my room mate discovered a new version of Pride & Prejudice. Always eager to embrace anything Jane Austen, she examined it closer and saw this:

Pride & Prejudice AND ZOMBIES

Disturbing, yes, but it gets better. During our Sunday family time, we went online to read book reviews since the New York Times had apparently raved over it, one of my favorite reviews includes:

"I've always said the problem with Jane Austen's novels is that there simply aren't enough zombies."


We also stumbled upon a hilarious rendition of the plot summary on Wikipedia. Although I don't think I could stomach the slaughtering of one of my favorite masterpieces, I did laugh uproariously while reading the Wiki version and this was probably one of my favorite paragraphs:

"Elizabeth Bennet and her four sisters live on a countryside estate with their parents. Mr. Bennet trains his daughters in martial arts and weapons, molding them into a fearsome zombie-fighting army. On the other hand, Mrs. Bennet plans to marry the girls off to wealthy suitors. When the wealthy Mr. Bingley purchases a nearby county house, Mrs. Bennet spies an opportunity and sends the girls to the first ball where Bingley is expected to appear. The girls defend the party from a zombie attack, and Mr. Bingley and eldest daughter Jane begin a relationship. Elizabeth, meanwhile, spars with the haughty monster-hunter Fitzwilliam Darcy, a friend of Bingley. Although Elizabeth and Darcy strongly dislike each other at first, their common interest of zombie-killing draws them closer together."

In the end, you really just can't go wrong by adding zombies to a literary masterpiece. If anyone reads this trashter-piece, you will have to give me further reviews.