Café de Nuit

I remember hearing the title somewhere--I'd swear it was here--and thinking it was just a joke. But last Wednesday when I was doing my warehouse shopping I saw the book. It has a portrait that fits with the original P&P, only...zombified. So naturally I had to buy a copy. The story is essentially Jane Austen's original merged with something out of a zombie apocalypse B-movie. The idea is so ludicrous...that it actually works. The original novel was meant to be a humorous jab at the stratified class system of Victorian Europe. Now throw in the recently dead rising up to eat the brains of the living. The results are interesting, to say the least.

I admit I'm laughing a lot more than I'm getting scared. But man can't live by horror alone. This may not be the greatest read for everybody, but for a zombie fanboy like me it's worth a read.

I like the original P&P, and I liked thos book as well. It's nice to see Elizabeth kick ass.

Did you read through it? I've seen the book, picked it up and leafed through it, but it didn't impress me. I really liked Pride & Prejudice (without Zombies), and I don't really want to sour my regard for that book with a slapdash jokey re-write...

It does get a bit much (the original P&P was supposed to be a comedy, but the zombie elements are just plain serious). I find it amusing largely in that Victorian ideals continue even as the dead walk and sometimes the two do clash with each other. Take it for what it's supposed to be: B-movie material in literary form.