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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith

January 8, 2010 Grownup Books , , ,

pride_prejudice_zombiesI read this über popular, utterly strange adaption of Jane Austen’s classic around Thanksgiving. Do I think it improves upon the original story, one of my favorite books of all time? No. Did I enjoy it anyway? Yes. But I’m not really sure if I enjoyed it because of all the extra zombie mayhem, or if it was just rereading the wonderful text by Jane Austen that still remains in this book (85% of the original text remains).

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The Men of Austen

April 30, 2008 Grownup Books, Interwebs , , , ,

Rupert Penry-Jones

PBS created The Men of Austen website with “online dating profiles” of all the Jane Austen heroes. I don’t know why it amuses me so much, but it does. I love Austen’s novels and the movies. I think I’d have to say I’m in the Frederick Wentworth camp.

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