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From the same folks that brought you Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Summary pulled from a website:
From Quirk Books—publisher of the New York Times Best Seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies—comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem!
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find true love? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest-and only the swiftest swimmers will find true love!
JANE AUSTEN is coauthor of the New York Times best seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which has been translated into 17 languages and optioned to become a major motion picture. She died in 1817.
BEN H. WINTERS is a writer based in Brooklyn.
Can check out the cover and spot illustrations at here.
I dunno... P&P&Z was fun, but I've always liked zombies more than sea monsters. And am I the only one who would love a poster sized image of the cover images of both to hang over my mantle? -
I need to read Pride and Predjudice and Zombies... "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man of substance must be in want of braaaaaaaaaains...." - or something like that.
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On that tangent, clicking through the Amazon links yields not one but two books written about Mr. Darcy being a vampire. Wut.
I saw those, too. Part of me wants to read them, the other part of me is beating the part that wants to read it with a large stick. I mean.... come on... vampire?! VAMPIRE?! ... He was out at day in the origianl text so noooooo (God I hope he doesn't SPARKLE!). I'm wondering if they would do other classic novels other than Jane Austen's novels. Would be interesting to see what they would do with something like Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights (Jane Eyre would be especially awesome for the insane wife...I don't know why...just know it would be.).
And yeah, I think sea monsters would probably go better with Persuasion. Frederick would have made a great sea monster a'la the cover one (who looks like a really pink Davy Jones...). -
I'm about 1/3 of the way through P&P&Z, and if you don't like Jane Austen you won't like it. It reads just like P&P, with the occasional fight w/ zombies. I do think the movie is gonna be awesome (or awesomely bad, which is just as good.) I'm intrigued about S&S&S, but I agree that Persuasion would be a better fit. Isn't there another P&P version w/ zombies coming out soon? Or somthing?
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