UK Book Club discussion

When all of you have finished reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies -Seth Grahame-Smith, this is the place to discuss it!

I read this book a little while back so I wont be reading again (just yet anyway) but I'll be sure to chip in when the discussions get going, hope you all enjoy it as much as I did :-)

I've only just got my copy from the library...

Yeah, I'm still waiting for mine! Perhaps we should extend this for another month! Then we'll do a Christmassy one for Christmastime! :) Sound good?

Fine by me, how's everyone else doing?

Is there a date/deadline? (I'll probably need another two weeks...)

Errrm, well if I start the Christmas book poll at the beginning of December and give that two weeks for people to vote, then it'll give til mid-December to get hold of and finish this book?

Sounds good to me!

I'm still waiting for my copy from the library.I'll just read it after everyone else if necessary.

Just started and I'm laughing already:
'Unmentionables poured in, their movements clumsy yet swift; their burial clothing in a range of untidiness. Some wore gowns so tattered as to render them scandalous.... Their flesh was in varying degrees of putrefaction; the freshly stricken were slightly green and pliant...'
Ho,ho

Haha, that sounds awfully gross yet also somehow funny!

Just wait it gets better :-)

I have finally got it from the library. So far very good.

My library says that their copy is currently lost! Hoping it turns up soon :(

"Just finished it. I loved Elizabeth's refusal of Darcy's initial proposal - there's a few people I'd love to send flying into a marble mantlepiece myself....

I liked the way the girls spent their idle moments wittling poison darts for blow-pipes etc, rather than working on endless pieces of needlework!

It is basically one joke that flows through the whole book, but some of the passages were very funny and I found myself laughing out loud on the bus (a good sign) - although I got some funny looks...

Liz wrote: ""Just finished it. I loved Elizabeth's refusal of Darcy's initial proposal - there's a few people I'd love to send flying into a marble mantlepiece myself....

I liked the way the girls spent their..."

Sounds like you quite enjoyed it Liz, I was the same with laughing out loud. It was certaintly funnier than I thought it would be although some say it's sacrilage, personally I think it's brilliant

Sam wrote: "Liz wrote: ""Just finished it. I loved Elizabeth's refusal of Darcy's initial proposal - there's a few people I'd love to send flying into a marble mantlepiece myself....

I liked the way the gir..."

I did enjoy it. I studied the original for school and found it heavy going, then read it again a few years back and found it had improved (or rather, I had finally 'got' it).

The zombie additions give it a good jolt, but I feel it's done with affection. One question remains, what prevented Mr Bennet from disemboweling Mrs Bennet long before they got around to having the unbearable Lydia & Kitty?....

I've never read the original but I think I might now, but then I've kinda got the story from this so I'm not sure.

That is a very good question actually, she did get quite annoying by the end lol.

I got mine from the library a few days ago - hope to get chance to start soon !

I have finished. I loved every bit of it as I do the original. The zombie bits just made me laugh. They were very cleverly put in and the story just flowed. Brillant!!!

I also loved this (Looks like most of us did...so far anyway!) Never read the original and don't think I will now, I would be waiting for zombies to pop up!

Enjoyed it so much, have just started reading 'Queen Victoria - Demon hunter' enjoying it so far another book to laugh out loud at on the bus!