I guess Quirk Classics is going to beat this concept into the ground, huh?

If I could I would help them beat that horse well after it is dead.

I am all for the mash ups of classic books and monsters. Just let me know when we get to a Brave New World with Warewolves and I will be good to know.

Oh or The Great Gatsby with Aliens and Catcher in the Rye meets the Children of the Corn.

I really hoe there is no contest to make your own mashup of classic books and sci-fi monsters because my ideas were just used up

SQUEEE!

Sisters? Tentacles? Hmm...

Wow, that trailer was very nicely done! How interesting-- I may have to pick this one up!

dacalicious said: "I guess Quirk Classics is going to beat this concept into the ground, huh?"

So two = beating a concept into the ground?

I'd love a free copy! it looks awesome!

I still never got my free copy of the first book.

And since I thought I was going to get it free, I splurged on a bunch of other books instead.

Bah humbug.

Isn't this kind of historical fiction/monster mash-up already a genre? I don't think PP/Z was even the first.

Ideas for next books by these people:
* Catcher in the Rye with Cthulu
* The Great Gatsby and Gryphons (They fight crime... or perform it!)
* Lord of the rings with Lichs
** "FRODO, DON'T WEAR THE PHYLACTERY!"
* Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Robots
* Pilgrim's Progress and Predator
* Catch-22 with Candyman
* A Confederacy of Dunces and Dragons
* Snow Crash with Succubi

@ The Great A'Tuin
"Oil, oil everywhere, and not a drop to lubricate!"

The good old hand trick

=D I just got Pride and Prejudice and Zombies a few weeks ago and have yet to finish it, but it is wonderful.

I can't wait for the new one! And now with another 25% of monsters? Fabulous, fabulous win

Is there? I admit to having absolutely no idea.

@ Ramone: yeah, I would consider doing the same literary stunt twice beating it into the ground. I thought the first one was cute, happy to have it, like a lot of folk probably, never quite finished it because once you get the joke, you've got the joke. But I guess if one is the sort who follows 567 issues of Batman ...

What's next? "Mansfield Park and Mudmen"?

Also, hell yes. This looks awesome!

you know rob, for someone who thinks wrecking ball testicles on devastator marks the downfall of western civilization, you sure do love a novel where there is absolutely no use of the word "ball" where it isn't played for double entendre. ditto the word "package". seriously everytime someone mentions "having a ball" in PPZ, everyone goes all a titter and their faces get red at the "impropriety". there's seriously about as much testicle innuendo in PPZ as there is zombies, to the point where it could have been called "pride and prejudice and zombies and jokes about scrotums". i'm not sure if these lowbrow references were present in austen's original text since i never read pride and prejudice, but the ball jokes got old to me way before the "throw in a zombie every 20 pages that does nothing to affect any character or plot point at all in the story" schtick did.

"Now, with less Austen!"

Meh. Give me whist over the Kung-fu Theater mishmash of P&P&Z any day.

That special place in hell? The one with the guys on cellphones in the theaters? The next one down is for people who tackle historical* novels without any sense of history, or martial traditions.

*Yes, it was historical when written. By a few years, I'll grant.

While I'm all for the classics/sci-fi mash-ups, odds are they will run out of titles and themes to blend (and frankly, everyone will be sick of this stuff when they do). When this happens, I vote for historical reiterations turned into graphic novels. The War of 1812 in full color panel glory? Hells to the YES!*

*And if that doesn't sell, add zombies.

Ideas for this genre of fiction have to be careful of a few pitfalls and traps that make enticing mash-ups aesthetically confusing. Specific comments follow:

Ideas for next books by these people:
* The Great Gatsby and Gryphons (They fight crime... or perform it!)
-----I don't understand what The Great Gatsby or Gryphons has to do with fighting crime, but actually Gatsby would be a good book for this trend with the right monsters.

* Catcher in the Rye with Cthulu
------Zombies are funny, but Cthulhu isn't. I think it's zombies' goofy, horrible charm that help make this entertaining. Besides, Cthulhu is already classic genre literature. I think people have forgotten to actually read Lovecraft as his mythos has gone from cult-following status to pop-cult-following status.

* Lord of the rings with Lichs
** "FRODO, DON'T WEAR THE PHYLACTERY!"
-------There are already zillions of monsters in LoTR, why would you need more? It wouldn't add anything new to the original classic.

* Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Robots
-------Aren't zombie pirates enough? I don't think this one would be a good choice.

I think one of the conventions of this developing genre is that you choose a book that has no semblemce of supernatural murder-beasts. Austen's work is great for it since you get to contrast Victorian England with monsters, but to mix Colridge or Tolkien wouldn't be that much of a change.

Poor, poor Jane Austin.

When she comes back as a zombie she will be enraged.

There's a bunch of other Jane Austen ones coming out.

See http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Unabashedly-Bookish/Are-Paranormal-Fantasy-Classic-Lit-Mash-Ups-a-Fad-or-a-Legit-New/ba-p/365990#A1249

I know that The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies is already out, likewise with Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Zombie Jim.

Hey, why not?

Эээ, объясните, пожалуйста, а то я чего то не совсем в тему въехал, это как?

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