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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

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Book Trailer Amuses


The whole Pride and Prejudice and Zombies thing seemed worth a chuckle and not much more. I mean, a one-note joke on Jane Austen is all well and good, but was there really call for a sequel? Apparently yes, there was, and Dawn of the Dreadfuls will be arriving in bookstores soon. Whatever reservations you might have about that-and do you? Do you really? Are you somehow that invested in what winds up in bookstores? Is your little masterpiece somehow going unpublished while an extended riff on romantic fiction from the Regency period festooned with the living dead somehow merits a second volume? Maybe the problem is with your work and not with anyone else, did you ever consider that? I'm sure you've brought a delightful and idiosyncratic spin to modern ennui and you're no doubt terrific with illustrations of the sky and depictions of urban angst, but maybe we've all had enough of that. Did that ever occur to you?-you've got to admit that this "trailer" is pretty damned good. I enjoyed it, at least. Oh, whatever, I'm tired of you and your complaining. Just watch it. [Via]

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C_Webb
C_Webb (#855)

I found the book mildly amusing, but did not understand why they had to be ninjas in order to kill vampires. (Then again, I do know why: the author already knew about ninjas and didn't feel like researching any more traditional British murder methods. And THAT is lame.)

rj77
rj77 (#210)

Maybe it was just simply acknowledging that Ninja + Zombies = Win?

I, for one, find it quite entertaining.

propertius
propertius (#361)

I have no unpublished works, master or no. Just the memory of a Latin professoress who is - no doubt of it - not amused by this treatment of her favorite novelist. And I have a sympathetic streak for her.

But yeah, you people with works lying around, you'd better be a little peeved.

LondonLee
LondonLee (#922)

Wasn't there already a sequel called Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters?

n.b.
n.b. (#4,037)

My volume of Gangster Rap by Emily Dickinson is at least as good as this dreck! Ah the unfairness!

dntsqzthchrmn
dntsqzthchrmn (#2,893)

Oh I just got it now! this is about how identifying with the aggressor is the engine behind go-along-to-get-along.

Looking forward to Balk's novel.

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