I recently listened to Pride and Prejudice and Zombies on CD, just after I finished listening to Pride and Prejudice. I mean, I had to do a comparative study! Here are my thoughts, in no particular order.
The reader was good...
At first, the book annoyed me. Being a fan of Austen, although not obsessively so, I had a little trouble with the add ins. But I kept telling myself to give it a try. As I began to relax a bit, I found some entertainment value and even considered getting Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. As an aside, this title bothers me because sea monsters seem to belong more to Persuasion that Sense and Sensibility.
I would not call this literature (who would?) but I wouldn't call it a complete waste of paper, either. The author doesn't try too hard to develop the characters much differently than they have been made by Austen, other than putting them in a completely different world and expecting them to have a different set of priorities.
Don't buy it, but if your library has it and you feel like a laugh, go ahead and waste some time on it. Still better than most b-flick horror movies.
