We feel like Jane Austen would have a fit - in the old school way, of course, involving fainting and swooning and smelling salts - if she knew about Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which we started reading yesterday. The new author has taken our beloved Elizabeth Bennet and turned her into a driven ninja (ninja? really?) zombie-killer, who thinks less about the attraction of love than about the attraction of holding a still-beating heart in her hands. No, really. A still-beating heart.
So far, we've only read about 50 pages of the book, but there have been something like six zombie battles and apparently, P and P and Z's Mr. Darcy has fallen in love with Elizabeth because of her epic zombie murder skillz. And her fine eyes, of course. Mr. Darcy in this book is also very proud of his "chestnut mane," which really just makes us feel like we're reading a harlequin, and we only read those if they're about pirates. We know this blog is about sci-fi and everything, but we're going to take a moment and nerd out about historical accuracy (as in, period writing - obviously, inserting zombies into anything obliterates any shred of historical accuracy) and grammar: Jane Austen did not use contractions. Also, we're pretty sure no one in the west called it "Beijing" in the eighteenth century, which is why we disapprove of the whole ninja bit. And anyway, aren't ninas Japanese?
Moment over.
And in case we haven't stressed it enough: Did Elizabeth really have to be a ninja zombie killer?
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
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But if not for the ninja zombie killer we would not know that a zombie in posession of brains, must be in want of more brains.
ReplyDeletebut she could be like a shaun of the dead zombie killer ... a cricket bat is so much more hilarious than a ninja dagger. although i guess it's hilarious to think of elizabeth bennet as a ninja.
ReplyDeletei myself prefer the frying pan. crude, but very effective within close range. of course, lizzie would be far too genteel to use something from the kitchen. sooo...i guess we're back to ninja daggers.
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