'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' preview
If you're on the fence about whether to read "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," you can download a ten-page preview from Quirk Books.
Basically, Seth Grahame-Smith (which is a name so English it sounds fake) has overlaid the original Jane Austen story of marriage and love with a zombie plague. Resulting in sentences like this: "Mr. Bingley was good-looking and gentlemanlike; he had a pleasant countenance, and easy, unaffected manners. His sisters were fine women, with an air of decided fashion, but little in the way of combat training."
It's pretty funny, though it's tough to tell from this short excerpt if the book can carry the gimmick through to the end or if it gets old before then. But I have to say I'm intrigued.
Oh, and it has illustrations.
