Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Review

Yes, someone got the bright idea to take a classic Jane Austin book and invade it with zombies. I am sure a lot of classic lovers are outranged by this. I somehow missed the hype of this book and only found out about it when I passed by it in the store and had to do a double take because a zombified 1800th English Woman is not a common book cover.

Synopsis: The Bennent Sisters are train fighters. They know how to kill the zombies, but do they know how to fall in love and fight for it? The book is Jane Austin's masterpiece, but with one twist not only do the sisters have to figure out love and giving up fighting, but how to protect their beloved country from zombies.

Review: It's really hard to write a synopsis for this book and even harder to do a review. I have not read Pride and Prejudice all the way through, but I have seen the movie and various BBC renditions of it. So I know the basic plot line. It sort of seems like a slap in the face to rewrite a classic with zombies. I guess for some people it makes classics fun to read, but a horror to others.

I felt like the parts of the book where she's talking about her training and loyalty to her master was very forced. It was like having to hear someone brag about meeting the president or something. It just seemed unneeded.

I gave this book 3 stars on goodreads, but it probably should have been given 2 stars. It was an okay book, the zombies were basic brainless dead in search for brains. I haven't read too many zombie books, but this one is probably one of the lesser ones. It seemed more like a joke than a serious book.

One of the weirdest lines and I am going to paraphrase was about Jesus coming back to earth with Excalibur to kill the zombies..... WHAT?! Why would he use that sword? That line just seemed very random and had nothing to do with the rest of the book.

So it was an okay book. I am not sure if the other classics will be much better. Probably not. At least I have taken this book off my to read pile.

And this book is suppose to be turned into a movie. If I remember right Emma Stone is suppose to play the lead role.

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World War Z Review

If you are a fan of zombies or just want to survive that zombie apocalypse, then this book is a must read. The man who taught you how to survive those nasty zombies now gives us survivors' account of the events leading up to, surrounding and after World War Z. Who knew there would ever be an oral history about a zombie war?

Synopsis: This book is several first hand accounts about the war with zombies. When people first noticed something was wrong, how we fought, and how we rebuild. It has survivors from all over the world of different economic class or jobs telling the main character their stories.

Review: I am not big on zombies. Or at least I never was until I started to watch The Walking Dead. I have a lot of friends who are obsessed with zombies and have Max Brook's other book practically memorized. I honestly never thought about reading books like this one until I heard this was being turned into a movie. As I was looking at some of the images I decided that it was time to read this book.

Since I was a history major I enjoy history books. Yes, but not all of them are boring. Since switching majors I haven't read too many recently. This book was written like some of the WWII narratives I have read. It's a very interesting concept and done very well. The only issue is he does mentioned some people without much reference to them, except in notes in the back of the book. And since this is a fictional book, even though you feel like it's all real by reading this, it's a bit hard to understand all that is going on. We know what happened at Pearl Harbor so when we read a book about it we can visualize it well. With this book I found it a big hard.

What I loved about this book is how it takes a fear/excitement people haven been obsessing over and shows us what could happen if it did come true. Kind of like movies about the bird flu.

I gave this book 4 stars because like I mentioned the story was good, but some of it I had trouble following what was being discussed since it was written like the audience knew everything that had happen before reading this book.

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