Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
by Seth Grahame-Smith, Jane Austen, Katherine Kellgren · first published 2009
78% neutral22% critical
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.” So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she’s soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners
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…written in English, but this whole debate is absurd. It's art. Let artists create art. People who will enjoy it will enjoy it, those who won't won't. I don't expect every Jane Austen fan to enjoy "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" or Doris Kearns Goodwin to appreciate "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter" (actually, I bet she loves it), but so what? The source material is public domain, so let's enjoy the beauty of the commons.
on “Why We Mostly Stopped Messing with Shakespeare's Language” ↗…it's not necessary and at the extremes it's clearly harmful. Just think of how many great movies would not have been produced if if Shakespeare's plays where still under protected. You don't get to see Pride and Prejudice and Zombies in a world of unlimited copy-write. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1594743347/ref=asc_df_1594743347184...) PS: I think a 5 year copy-write length for movies, TV shows and video games is a perfectly acceptable,…
on “It Is Time To Stop Pretending To Endorse The Copyright Monopoly” ↗Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is certainly entertaining, and I’m happy that some people enjoyed coming up with it and others enjoyed watching or reading it, but if it replaced Pride and Prejudice, the world would be worse off.
on “Classic movie censored and re-edited for “modern sensitivities”” ↗Something like, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith" is probably sufficient.
on “Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground” ↗Popular works regularly mine the (public domain) past. Disney animated movies like Cinderella did so. Seth Grahame-Smith did so with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. and so on. That is literally the benefit of copyright expiration, that other people can utilize and transform a published work.
on “Antique Fonts Collection – Restored 19th Century Typefaces” ↗> Pride and Prejudice and Zombies I own this. It is so delightfully well executed that I cannot help but be impressed. And yet it is somewhat appalling in that I cannot bring myself to read more than a few chapters. Just as the settings…
on “Jane Austen, on the money” ↗Who could forget "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" ? They even made a movie of that one
on “In Amazon’s Bookstore, Orwell Gets a Rewrite” ↗We’d end up in a world full of absolute junk like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Good stewardship is valuable, not just from an economic perspective.
on “Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done” ↗This makes me think that it's a shame we'll never have a modern equivalent of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, because nothing new will ever enter the public domain after the 1998 copyright act.
on “Fake 'Harry Potter' Books Written In China” ↗There needs to be a dark and gritty Toy Story retelling in the same spirit as "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"
on “How Toy Story can be explained by the Psychology of Slavery” ↗I actually read Pride & Prejudice because I heard about Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, and thought it sounded hilarious, but wanted to understand the background and changes, rather than go in blind. It took me over a year to get through P&P but it's now a favourite that I've enjoyed in many other mediums (The Lizzie Bennett Diaries[1] being the highlight). P&P&Z, on the other hand, I found heartil
on “Jane Austen, on the money” ↗…something in the zeitgeist and expands some conversation society is having with itself (Gone Girl or Fifty Shades). The only NYT bestseller in recent years that comes close to your Titanic analogy is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a book that sold on its title alone and which I would not be surprised to learn not a single person has read, including the author. Most successful books of the stripe you're describing are more like…
on ““Ready Player One” is the worst thing nerd culture ever produced” ↗…manuals. They'd be unacceptable as free Internet writing of the sort (ahem, one supposes). They're damn funny though. > The only NYT bestseller in recent years that comes close to your Titanic analogy is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, a book that sold on its title alone and which I would not be surprised to learn not a single person has read, including the author. A friend of mine read and enjoyed it, in fact, though he likes (some)…
on ““Ready Player One” is the worst thing nerd culture ever produced” ↗…using the Socratic method. I was asking rhetorical questions, and then gave the (my) answer at the end. We just have different opinions about what it means to have a book. I think that having a copy of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" is more like having a copy of "Pride and Prejudice", than having no book at all is like having a copy of that book. You disagree and that's fine.
on “AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late” ↗Pride and Prejudice and Zombies didn't in any way damaged or removed anything from Pride and Prejudice though. The book is still there for everyone to enjoy. The movie was also a commercial failure, I'm not sure we would end up with…
on “Copyright doesn't need 95 years to get the job done” ↗