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By Derek Weiler
April 8, 2009
1:52 PM

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“Eighty-five per cent Austen, fifteen per cent a television writer named Seth Grahame-Smith, and one hundred per cent terrible.”

– The New Yorker on the much-ballyhooed Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

  • http://www.robertjwiersema.com Rob in Victoria

    I, for one, am shocked — SHOCKED, I tell you — to learn that the New Yorker was not impressed with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

    Not as shocked as I was with Fangoria’s negative review of Lives of Girls and Women, but pretty close…

  • http://charlotteashley.wordpress.com Charlotte Ashley

    Well, of course it’s terrible! That’s exactly why we’ll be buying it. *eyeroll*

  • http://oneyearbook.wordpress.com Cat

    I’m surprised the New Yorker bothered to mention it … the book is selling like hotcakes almost entirely because of the hubbub of attention around its ‘shocking’ premise – the New Yorker pooh-poohing it just adds to that hubbub.
    I have to admit, I’m going to check it out – via the library, though. I already own a copy of P&P and don’t need to pay for a full book to get an extra 15%.

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