book review
Jun. 26th, 2010 10:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erilynI am terrible at picking my favourites of things: favourite movie, favourite book, favourite song etc - I hate trying to do it.
But I would have to include Pride and Prejudice amongst my favourite books, so I finally got around to reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I've been wanting to ever since I first heard about it.
Alas, I hated it. It's a vaguely interesting concept that is wasted by the lazy author, who thinks that people puking and lame single-innuendos (which get even less funny as they are repeated) are how to keep things interesting. I wouldn't have been impressed if this had been written for a Remix challenge (though why I have higher expectations of something that is still fanfic, even if it is professionally published, is my own failing).
I think I need to cleanse my palate with some real P&P, though I can't re-read the book just yet. Maybe I'll watch one of the four different versions we have on dvd - but which one?
But I would have to include Pride and Prejudice amongst my favourite books, so I finally got around to reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I've been wanting to ever since I first heard about it.
Alas, I hated it. It's a vaguely interesting concept that is wasted by the lazy author, who thinks that people puking and lame single-innuendos (which get even less funny as they are repeated) are how to keep things interesting. I wouldn't have been impressed if this had been written for a Remix challenge (though why I have higher expectations of something that is still fanfic, even if it is professionally published, is my own failing).
I think I need to cleanse my palate with some real P&P, though I can't re-read the book just yet. Maybe I'll watch one of the four different versions we have on dvd - but which one?
