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Has anyone read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"?

Jun 13, 2012 3:56 AM

Take a classic book, add zombies, sounds interesting. Has anyone read it? If not, what's your favorite zombie books?

I've read World War Z (great!) and the Married With Zombies series. Any other must reads?

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No, though one of the people I work with has and said it was much better than they expected.

I stuck it on my maybe-read-these-if-you-can-find-it-for-free-and-have-nothing-else-to-read list. As I've already found several other books on that list (but haven't started any of them), it is unlikely that I will actually read it very soon if ever.

I might watch the movie though, since I'm sure it will be available free within about 20 minutes of its release, apparently scheduled for next year.

baqui63 baqui63
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yes & its ok.
not bad but not great.
If you were a fan of WWZ check out Day by Day Armageddon
http://www.amazon.com/Day-Armageddon-J-L-Bourne/dp/1439176671/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1339565982&sr=8-1

Patient Zero
http://www.amazon.com/Patient-Zero-Joe-Ledger-Novel/dp/0312382855/ref=pd_sim_b_24

Walking Dead
http://www.amazon.com/The-Walking-Dead-Compendium-One/dp/1607060760/ref=pd_sim_b_76

wilcononomous wilcononomous
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I picked up a book called "Raising Stony Mayhall" from the library a couple of months ago. It is more of a book that has a zombie as a main character than a "zombie" book.

cf cf
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I really enjoyed it, as well as Abraham Lincoln Vampire Slayer. I didn't like the Sense and Sensibilty one (I think it was sea monsters and a different author) as much. I am a sucker for most Pride and Prejudice related books though.

mkdr mkdr
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I read PPZ. Really the only good parts of it IMO were the parts written by Austen. The added zombie stuff was pretty ham-handed, pointless and really only there for the sake of having "zombies" in the title. It would certainly be possible to recast the whole story in a zombie-infested world and come out the other side with a gripping narrative that integrates the comedy of manners with some good old blood'n'gore, but this book doesn't manage to do it.

codex codex
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I have it in my Kindle library. I got about halfway through and stalled. The concept is kind of funny, but in execution it gets rather tiresome.

wilfbrim wilfbrim

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