The Bennett Girls are Ready
I haven’t read any of the new re-worked books from Quirk Classics but I want to see the movie. (Dawn of the Dreadful trailor) How come we don’t make trailors like this for all books? People would seriously rea
d more if we had this kind of advertising. In all seriousness I’m not quite sure how I feel about these books. Not so much about the fact that they exist (I am a huge fan of zombies) but more so I am concerned with the language they use when talking about the author of the original work. This is taken directly from the Quirk Classic website: “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters coauthor Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and the result is Android Karenina: an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a strange new world of robots, cyborgs, and interplanetary travel.” Something about them calling Tolstoy the collaborator just feels wrong and unfair. I know it’s a joke and maybe I’m being a stick in the mud but poor Tolstoy. Some how I feel like we were able to raise Jane Austen from the dead, and assuming she didn’t come back as a zombie herself, and she was able to give us her opinion on her being considered the collaborator for her own novels it wouldn’t bother her. But I imagine Tolstoy would be very upset. He didn’t even get a cool title. Android Karenina just doesn’t have the same snap as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.
I don’t know. I have to admit, I’ve always thought Android Karenina was the more inspired title.