Quirk Books, publisher of (best-selling, because there is no justice) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, has announced a sequel follow-up, to be released this September. Sense and Sensibility and … wait for it … Sea Monsters.
OK. 1. No.
2. Book cover not nearly as funny as that of P&P&Z.
3. I suppose this was to be expected.
4. Different author, but same general philosophy, per the editor responsible for what might turn out to be a series1: “I just thought it would be really funny to desecrate a classic work of literature.” CHARMING. Honestly, I have no problem with classic works of literature getting updated or messed with. Just put some thought into it, yeah? Prove that you know what you’re doing, work on integrating the horror plot with the courtship plots, instead of just cutting and pasting vast chunks of one novel into another. If this new guy knows what he’s doing, he’ll have Colonel Brandon sporting some serious scars from a long-ago battle with a giant squid or something in the Indian Ocean.
5. OK…the trailer (yes. I know) is actually pretty funny.
6. Still, no.
7. Besides, it should be Persuasion that gets the sea monster treatment. HONESTLY. FORFUCKSSAKE.
- Except now we’re done with Austen’s Blank and Blank titles, so … will Quirk to turn to other 19th-century British writers? Maybe Elizabeth Gaskell? Wives and Daughters and Mummies? North and South and El Chupacabra? ↩
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