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Watch Out for Zombies!
November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Nothing is more peaceful that grazing across beautiful acres of lush green land. Until the zombies, that’s right, zombies pop out of the ground faster than weeds! What to do? Zombie season is here and nothing is worse than not being ready.
First on the list of preparations, Seth Grahame-Smith has created a Jane Austen parody called, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The story is basically the same, except who is a zombie, and who isn’t? All the same romantic elements and beautiful scenes that we love, and a load of zombie action intermingled with it.
The Bennett sisters are not only known to be local beauties, but also deadly zombie killers. Darcy himself is renouned throughout the land as a fierce enemy to the undead. Netherfield Park is vacant because the occupants are the victims of a terrible zombie attack. These elements are clever little additions to lighten the mood of Pride and Prejudice.
Or course, I was initially excited by this idea, but found as I read the book, it was seriously lacking in literary merit. But anything containing zombies is already void of quality. Seth has a fun idea with some good moments, I found myself bored, even with zombies attacking. It wasn’t right because there are some places, like Pemberly, that zombies just don’t belong.
Seth Grahame-Smith’s had obvious intentions. He wanted to belittle a well-loved classic into a manfest. It’s like if I were to take James Bond and write a book where he wasn’t licensed to kill, but a successful potpourri maker. I admire Seth for his ambitions, but Jane Austen is on the level of the most successful novelists of the century, and he isn’t. If you secure in your devotion to the original go ahead and read it for yourself.
Another source of zombie fighting fun this Halloween doesn’t have anything to do with battering literature. A special version the hit card game Fluxx has come out called, well, Zombie Fluxx. The point would obviously be not to get any zombies and to kill them when you do.
It all about the card combinations for winning, like having the brain card with the baseball bat card. Careful, the goals change faster than your friends turn into zombies. While getting rid of all your zombies, the goal can change to make you want at least nine zombies and a baseball bat card to have the zombie baseball team. Since every game is different and fun, you’ll keep playing.
The newest version of Zombie Fluxx comes equipped with Larry the Zombie. Larry is the equivalent of the Old Maid, if you have him, you lose. Larry is just the zombie that keep popping out of the beautiful green grass no matter how many times to bludger him back down.
Personally, I would start by buying zombie-free property in the first place. With all the zombie-free claims out there, it’s hard to be sure. You might say buying land online is just as scary, but you can trust Land for Sale Online. Try their link below for a glance at the zombie-free property of your dreams.
Haylee Landford is a zombietologist currently doing research for Land For Sale where you are guaranteed zombie-free property!
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