27 May 2009

I about died at Costco the other day....

I was browsing the book section and came across

"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 with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry?

Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.

Yep, dying of laughter that is...

5 comments:

Kim said...

I saw this at Borders today and have come to the conclusion that I MUST purchase this book!

Nancy said...

I saw this yesterday at Costco and thought of you!!! Did you buy it???

5Youngers said...

Hilarious!!! Love the cover! I need to read this.

The Farrs said...

Oh my...do you really think I'd like it?

Becca and fam said...

LOL!!! Thanks for the good laugh, if you read it you must review it for us!