My patience has worn thin.

[owlectomy]

Jane Slayre: "Okay, okay, that's a little clever, but I think it's time for this trend to be over."

Wuthering Bites: "WTF?"

Initially I was pretty amused by Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, at least in concept (having not actually read the book)-- it felt like a repudiation of the divide between Girl Books and Books With Explosions and Grievous Bodily Harm -- but the longer it goes on the more it looks like "Girl books about feelings are boring unless you put (zombies/werewolves/vampires) in them."

Everyone knows that Girl Books About Feelings are boring unless you put ninjas in them.

Comments

[deborah]

I agree with your conclusion, although I also got quite aggravated with the first one (which I started, got bored with, and put down)at another fine example of "man writes something that fan fiction authors have been writing for decades, publishes, makes a bundle." Arguably the counter to my frustration should be "fan fiction authors should publish and make a bundle," but my argument would be "make it easier for the general public to find free, high-quality, zombie plus Jane Austen fan fiction". (Or Shakespeare characters get turned into penguins, or Hammurabi in a zombie apocalypse, or Jesus and Judas in a Canadian shack.)