Austen + Zombies = Lots of Laughs

I got Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to read on the plane for my trip to Denver last week. It was hilarious. I like that he didn't really fuck with the essentials of the story and yet it's definitely not just a simple job of cobbling together Austen's words with scenes of zombie mayhem as the descriptions on Amazon.com and BN.com suggested when my friend first shared it with me so many months ago. I think the best way to describe it is as P&P for Guys. All the slower parts of the story were replaced with zombie fights and other more "exciting" adventures. I still love the original (of course!) but this was definitely worth reading. (If only because I found myself once again wondering if Elizabeth and Darcy would end up together. SPOILER ALERT: Had either them been eaten by zombies or become one--Charlotte did after all, so I couldn't be sure--I would have burned the book.) It even had me laughing to myself on the plane. (I long ago got past feeling like a freak for that. If somebody wants to have a problem with my finding books amusing in public, they can shove it.) My only complaint is that the 3 or 4 "ball" jokes jarred me out of the story because they just seemed so juvenile (I groaned upon reading them, they were so bad) and not at all in keeping with the rest of the dialogue (which for the most part was period). Its redemption was definitely in the poetic justice that is delivered to the characters a bit more directly than in the original novel. But you'll have to read it if you want to know what that is. ;-) My friends and I think that we now need Jane Eyre and Werewolves (Mr. Rochester's crazed wife is locked in the attic because she's a werewolf and when she bites him he becomes one, too?) and Wuthering Heights and Vampires (Heathcliff's brooding character makes him a perfect candidate, non?).