Comments on: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: adding much-needed zombies to the Austen classic http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sat, 25 May 2013 09:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Scuba SM http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454409 Scuba SM Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454409 I think Zombies would fit right in with Hemingway. "For Whom The Bell Tolls," for example. I'm also going to have to find this book, and buy it. I think Zombies would fit right in with Hemingway. “For Whom The Bell Tolls,” for example. I’m also going to have to find this book, and buy it.

]]> By: cleepa http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454160 cleepa Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454160 I would like to see someone do "Don Quixote" or "Catch 22"! I would like to see someone do “Don Quixote” or “Catch 22″!

]]> By: A Random Me http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454675 A Random Me Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454675 Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur is definitely something I'd read. So, anybody feel like putting on a production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream of Electric Sheep"? Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur is definitely something I’d read.

So, anybody feel like putting on a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream of Electric Sheep”?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454680 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454680 This was done a few years ago in a slightly different way; "Pride and Promiscuity". Lulz. This was done a few years ago in a slightly different way; “Pride and Promiscuity”. Lulz.

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454177 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454177 splendid idea, but I'll wait for the film version. splendid idea, but I’ll wait for the film version.

]]> By: madamedarcy http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454179 madamedarcy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454179 The best zombie parts are here: <a href="http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/04/01/the-lazy-readers-guide-to-pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies/" rel="nofollow">The Lazy Readers Guide to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies</a> The best zombie parts are here:

The Lazy Readers Guide to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454182 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454182 hmmm.. I wonder if some Victorian prudery with the usual concealed perversion and hypersexuality of the period would play well here? Something about "undying erections" mayhap? A splatterfest zombie gangbang with brains and tea? hmmm.. I wonder if some Victorian prudery with the usual concealed perversion and hypersexuality of the period would play well here? Something about “undying erections” mayhap? A splatterfest zombie gangbang with brains and tea?

]]> By: Contrasoma http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454183 Contrasoma Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454183 #21: I see your "The Canterbury Tales And Zombies" and raise you "The Decameron And Zombies". After fleeing from zombie-plagued Florence, ten people hole up in a countryside farmhouse, set up fortifications and wait for the horror to pass. To kill time, they tell each other ribald and witty tales of love and morality...relics of a social order which, for all they know, no longer exists beyond the limits of their tiny stronghold. Running short on supplies, and with no weapons beyond crude farming implements, time is running out. Will any of them be able to tell their one true story, the story of their life, before the shambling mass of undead which lurks just beyond their doorstep, rends their happy tale-telling asunder? #21: I see your “The Canterbury Tales And Zombies” and raise you “The Decameron And Zombies”.

After fleeing from zombie-plagued Florence, ten people hole up in a countryside farmhouse, set up fortifications and wait for the horror to pass. To kill time, they tell each other ribald and witty tales of love and morality…relics of a social order which, for all they know, no longer exists beyond the limits of their tiny stronghold.

Running short on supplies, and with no weapons beyond crude farming implements, time is running out. Will any of them be able to tell their one true story, the story of their life, before the shambling mass of undead which lurks just beyond their doorstep, rends their happy tale-telling asunder?

]]> By: Agies http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453933 Agies Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453933 Funny thing is the first issue of Marvel's new Classics Illustrated style comic adaptation of Pride and Prejudice <a href="http://marvel.com/catalog/?id=11466">comes out today</a>. Funny thing is the first issue of Marvel’s new Classics Illustrated style comic adaptation of Pride and Prejudice comes out today.

]]> By: nanner http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453935 nanner Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453935 hmm, i may actually read the blasted thing now lol hmm, i may actually read the blasted thing now lol

]]> By: sapph http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454192 sapph Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454192 Not Victorian. Regency. EOL Not Victorian. Regency. EOL

]]> By: Moriarty http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453937 Moriarty Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453937 I really liked Pride and Prejudice (which totally surprised me), and like any red-blooded American I love zombies. And yet I'm still deeply skeptical. I don't imagine the former would be much improved by the latter, especially if the one doing the adding is much less talented than Austen (which is to say, basically, anyone). This is a premise that seems more suited to an SNL sketch or a high school English student's notebook than a novel I would actually want to read. But is it funny that it exists? Yes. I really liked Pride and Prejudice (which totally surprised me), and like any red-blooded American I love zombies. And yet I’m still deeply skeptical. I don’t imagine the former would be much improved by the latter, especially if the one doing the adding is much less talented than Austen (which is to say, basically, anyone). This is a premise that seems more suited to an SNL sketch or a high school English student’s notebook than a novel I would actually want to read. But is it funny that it exists? Yes.

]]> By: Johne Cook http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454193 Johne Cook Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454193 I've not-finished /lots/ of classic books; LotR, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, most of Neal Stephenson after Snowcrash, the list goes on. I'd blame my ADD-addled short attention span, but the real culprit is Roger Zelazny. I /did/ read his Great Book of Amber, but in tiny bite-sized booklets that belied how much he actually wrote about Amber and the Courts of Chaos. Caveat: I would have added Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series, but I suspect nobody has actually read the entire thing, and the fans are all in on the joke. I suspect Brandon Sanderson is even now being paid as one more red herring on a pile of the things. Genius! I’ve not-finished /lots/ of classic books; LotR, Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia, most of Neal Stephenson after Snowcrash, the list goes on. I’d blame my ADD-addled short attention span, but the real culprit is Roger Zelazny. I /did/ read his Great Book of Amber, but in tiny bite-sized booklets that belied how much he actually wrote about Amber and the Courts of Chaos.

Caveat: I would have added Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, but I suspect nobody has actually read the entire thing, and the fans are all in on the joke. I suspect Brandon Sanderson is even now being paid as one more red herring on a pile of the things. Genius!

]]> By: ottocrat http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454705 ottocrat Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454705 Nice idea, must have been fun to write. Cory, I can't believe you're not a fan of Jane Austen, P&P is one of the funniest books I know. The characterisation is so sharp, the dialogue so perfect, it's timeless. I would have thought it would be right up your street. :( Jane Austen has been co-opted by the world of chick lit and costume drama and I suspect this is what puts many people off her work but this is their loss; they're missing out on something special. Nice idea, must have been fun to write. Cory, I can’t believe you’re not a fan of Jane Austen, P&P is one of the funniest books I know. The characterisation is so sharp, the dialogue so perfect, it’s timeless. I would have thought it would be right up your street. :(

Jane Austen has been co-opted by the world of chick lit and costume drama and I suspect this is what puts many people off her work but this is their loss; they’re missing out on something special.

]]> By: monstrinho_do_biscoito http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453938 monstrinho_do_biscoito Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453938 i will probably buy this just to leave on my shelf and confuse people. i remember my parents bookshelves as boring lifeless collections. I'm making sure my daughter has a better time when she's old enough to read. this will make a fine addition and i look forward to the day she take it to english class i will probably buy this just to leave on my shelf and confuse people. i remember my parents bookshelves as boring lifeless collections. I’m making sure my daughter has a better time when she’s old enough to read. this will make a fine addition and i look forward to the day she take it to english class

]]> By: sicasso http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453941 sicasso Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453941 Mark Twain on Jane Austen: "Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book." I believe Twain and I could make an exception for this one. Maybe. Biiiiiiiiig maybe. Mark Twain on Jane Austen:

“Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.”

I believe Twain and I could make an exception for this one. Maybe. Biiiiiiiiig maybe.

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453943 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453943 Not at all a fan of Jane Austen myself, and if the changes don't involve zombies killing and eating all the boring characters and breaking up the subtle Victorian wit, I'm not going to read it. I can still see where Cory's coming from of course. I'm sure there's an audience out there that loves this. Not at all a fan of Jane Austen myself, and if the changes don’t involve zombies killing and eating all the boring characters and breaking up the subtle Victorian wit, I’m not going to read it. I can still see where Cory’s coming from of course. I’m sure there’s an audience out there that loves this.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454455 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454455 You might want to try <i>Northanger Abbey</i>, Cory. It's a fun piece of satire that I blew through at surprising speed. It's undoubtedly free on the web in many places, and of course you local public library will have it. You might want to try Northanger Abbey, Cory. It’s a fun piece of satire that I blew through at surprising speed. It’s undoubtedly free on the web in many places, and of course you local public library will have it.

]]> By: Big Ed Dunkel http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453947 Big Ed Dunkel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453947 Any Jane Austen is just like the movie "Scream", without all the really scary crap. Any Jane Austen is just like the movie “Scream”, without all the really scary crap.

]]> By: catfood http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454460 catfood Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454460 Well, I was thinking that Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" was ripe for this, then I realized it'd already been done. (It was called "Apolcalypse Now" and had Marlon Brando playing the role of head zombie; uhhh, that was just a role, right?) Similarly, I thought the treatment might suit Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables", then realized that Andrew Lloyd Webber had beaten me to it. Although perhaps there is potential for a later series to go further in that direction: "Great Musicals of the Stage, with Zombies". Well, I was thinking that Joseph Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” was ripe for this, then I realized it’d already been done. (It was called “Apolcalypse Now” and had Marlon Brando playing the role of head zombie; uhhh, that was just a role, right?)

Similarly, I thought the treatment might suit Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables”, then realized that Andrew Lloyd Webber had beaten me to it.

Although perhaps there is potential for a later series to go further in that direction: “Great Musicals of the Stage, with Zombies”.

]]> By: Moriarty http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453953 Moriarty Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453953 "I believe Twain and I could make an exception..." I have some sad news for you. Mr. Clemens passed away. Like, almost a hundred years ago. Surprised you didn't hear about it, since apparently you were close enough to speak for him. “I believe Twain and I could make an exception…”

I have some sad news for you. Mr. Clemens passed away. Like, almost a hundred years ago. Surprised you didn’t hear about it, since apparently you were close enough to speak for him.

]]> By: 0xdeadbeef http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453954 0xdeadbeef Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453954 I believe the problem is your defective chromosome, you know, the one shaped like a 'Y'. Don't worry, it's an affliction many of us have. I believe the problem is your defective chromosome, you know, the one shaped like a ‘Y’. Don’t worry, it’s an affliction many of us have.

]]> By: zipr http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453956 zipr Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453956 Jane Austen was always a drag for me too. She was the bane of my grad school existence. I'd take novels by George Eliot or Thomas Hardy over hers any day. Jane Austen was always a drag for me too. She was the bane of my grad school existence. I’d take novels by George Eliot or Thomas Hardy over hers any day.

]]> By: Irene Delse http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454468 Irene Delse Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454468 @ Anonymous #68: Seconded! <i>Northanger Abbey</i> is a lot of fun, and shorter than P&P. In addition, Karen Joy Fowler's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jane-Austen-Book-Club-movie/dp/0452289009/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1238633302&sr=1-2"><i>The Jane Austen Book Club</i></a> is a lovely and quirky introduction to Austen's world – and for those who already enjoy her books, pure literary delight. @ Anonymous #68: Seconded! Northanger Abbey is a lot of fun, and shorter than P&P.

In addition, Karen Joy Fowler’s The Jane Austen Book Club is a lovely and quirky introduction to Austen’s world – and for those who already enjoy her books, pure literary delight.

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454213 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454213 I find Jane Austen's works to be screamingly funny and, even on the dozenth reading, leave me on the edge of my seat. De gustibus. I find Jane Austen’s works to be screamingly funny and, even on the dozenth reading, leave me on the edge of my seat. De gustibus.

]]> By: airship http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453958 airship Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453958 Clemens is not dead... he is UNDEAD! Clemens is not dead… he is UNDEAD!

]]> By: Daemon http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-454215 Daemon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-454215 "the problem is with me, not with Austen." I wouldn't go so far as to call it a problem. Everybody has some good authors who they just can't manage to like, inspite of the fact that everybody else seems to. Tolkein, Stephen King and Robert Jordon are all very high my list... “the problem is with me, not with Austen.”

I wouldn’t go so far as to call it a problem. Everybody has some good authors who they just can’t manage to like, inspite of the fact that everybody else seems to.

Tolkein, Stephen King and Robert Jordon are all very high my list…

]]> By: Moriarty http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453962 Moriarty Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453962 "Clemens is not dead... he is UNDEAD!" But he only rises from the grave when Halley's Comet is visible. “Clemens is not dead… he is UNDEAD!”

But he only rises from the grave when Halley’s Comet is visible.

]]> By: Nelson.C http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-453963 Nelson.C Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-453963 Sirs, one who is not a friend of Miss Austen is no friend of mine. Sirs, one who is not a friend of Miss Austen is no friend of mine.

]]> By: TroofSeeker http://boingboing.net/2009/04/01/pride-and-prejudice.html#comment-455243 TroofSeeker Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-455243 My favorite zombie movie is 'Day Of The Dead'. I just loved the way Big Daddy led his people across the river into the Promised Land. Peter and I see it as a retelling of the Moses story. Then again, Andy and I loved 'Back To The Beach'-seeing Bobby (the son) as a young America, struggling for acceptance in the community of first world nations. These movies are very deep, if you read depth into them. My favorite zombie movie is ‘Day Of The Dead’.
I just loved the way Big Daddy led his people across the river into the Promised Land. Peter and I see it as a retelling of the Moses story.
Then again, Andy and I loved ‘Back To The Beach’-seeing Bobby (the son) as a young America, struggling for acceptance in the community of first world nations. These movies are very deep, if you read depth into them.

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