Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

(4) Base Camp

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies borrows pretty heavily from Jane Austen's 1813 original, so it still has some of the difficulty that comes with reading a book that was written long ago and far away.

But, lucky for you, the author has done away with some of the really high-level vocabulary words. Don't worry about pulling out your dictionary too often with this undead update. Let's just take one example. Have a look at this passage from the original, in which Elizabeth is talking to Jane about Mr. Bingley:

"With your good sense to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! Affectation of candour is common enough;—one meets it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design—to take the good of everybody's character and make it still better, and say nothing of the bad—belongs to you alone. And so you like this man's sisters too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his." (4.9)

And now have a look how it's been changed for the zombified version:

"With your good sense, to be so honestly blind to the follies and nonsense of others! You like this man's sisters, too, do you? Their manners are not equal to his." (4.9)

Gone are all those hard-to-understand words about how Jane just loves to see the best in people. This new version is much simpler. Sure, it's a little less Austen-esque, but we'll forgive the new author for taking some liberties: zombies are afoot. Sometimes you've gotta cut to the chase.