Abraham Lincoln- Vampire Hunter- the next greatest vampire book to be worshipped

[59Vampire]

a great read! Lots of cool historical stuff and friggin vampires getting killed!! Check it out you wont be dissappointed.

Oh and I predict it will be a movie within 2 years. This aint no twilight folks! ( which I happened to like anyway). I LOVE me them vamps!

[SteveO]

I just remembered I picked up a copy of this while I was on vacation last year, haven't read it yet. I'll have to dig it out and give it a spin.

[The Last Rebel]

I'm sorry, it's hard for me to respect or even like anything by a man who has the audacity to shove zombies into Pride & Prejudice just to cash in on a pop culture phenomenon. Of course cashing in on the vampire craze with this novel isn't a whole lot better.

[Bluedawg]

:spit

[rhinocaster]

I'm sorry, it's hard for me to respect or even like anything by a man who has the audacity to shove zombies into Pride & Prejudice just to cash in on a pop culture phenomenon. Of course cashing in on the vampire craze with this novel isn't a whole lot better.

I loved PP&Z. Just the idea that the novel included all of the text of the original and the author still found room for zombies was great. I'm not sure but I think that novel predated most of the other zombie combo novels.

The Lincoln vampire novel was solid, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I did PP&Z. :)

[StratManKudzu]

Pride & Prejudice & Zombies - Zombies = A Crappy Book. However the zombies don't make it any better. I started reading P&P&Z as research to see if it made reading Jane Austen better, I found all it did was create distractions in trying to follow an already hard to follow story and made it more of a chore to read than it already was just from the volume of additional text.

[The Last Rebel]

I loved PP&Z. Just the idea that the novel included all of the text of the original and the author still found room for zombies was great. I'm not sure but I think that novel predated most of the other zombie combo novels.

The Lincoln vampire novel was solid, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I did PP&Z. :)
I'm pretty sure it started the entire craze which is an even bigger reason for me to hate it.

@StratManKudzu Well please do give us an actual, well thought out reason why Pride & Prejudice is a "crappy book". I'm sure one such as yourself should be able to tell us in an intellectual manner exactly why it's a "crappy book".

[Ampegasaur]

With all the historical revisionism going on in OTHER pseudo intellectual threads, this should fit right in as fact before long.

[rhinocaster]

A silly book thread getting people FIRED UP!

[StratManKudzu]

@The Last Rebel

I tend to find a lot of the feminist literature of the Victorian period to be a little trite and pretentious. The works are the dawn of a new era of empowered female writers but I have a hard time with some works as they come off to me as being forced for the sake of controversy. Of course, this is entirely my opinion and yes, "crappy book" is very sophomoric of me to throw around about an important piece of history. The work in context of the time has a great amount of merit but I much prefer to read something else. I did enjoy Chopin's Awakening (though not technically Victorian) and Eliot's (Evan's) Middlemarch kept my attention as well. I could just not like Austen's style, though I am not much a fan of the Brontes either.

[The Last Rebel]

I take back what I said then and offer an apology. It's not typical for someone to call something crap and also be able to back that up intelligently but I see I'm wrong here.

And @rhinocaster This is one of the few topics I really do get rather angry about. I think it's completely and totally wrong for a hack writer to shove in his own rather stupid ideas into a novel like Pride & Prejudice. Though I'm no great fan of Austen myself I'll still try and defend her books from the hands of people like Grahame-Smith. Of course he's just one of many trying to pervert her books, there seems to be an entire sub-genre of literature devoted to literally perverting her novels and characters into Harlequin romances.

[StratManKudzu]

I actually picked up the &zombies version at the library out of curiosity. I read Pride and Prejudice in English Lit and remembered how difficult it was for me to finish the novel much less try to comprehend all the themes, motifs etc for the brutal AP tests. I was not alone in my class of being bored by Austen's work. I figured if adding zombies kept your attention and made the actual novel more entertaining to read I could recommend it to my former teacher for future classes. Alas, It didn't help at all, it was like watching two movies at the same time and flipping back and forth between them.

[StratManKudzu]

@the last rebel

No need to apologize, I did bomb the thread like a troll. In a literature related conversation I usually am quick to talk trash about Austen's work but that's usually with people who know WHY I do. Saying something like that on a forum where few people know me should receive exactly that kind of retort. I commend you for defending literature for the principle, you should, I should and do as well. What kinds of literature are you into?

[rhinocaster]

I take back what I said then and offer an apology. It's not typical for someone to call something crap and also be able to back that up intelligently but I see I'm wrong here.

And @rhinocaster This is one of the few topics I really do get rather angry about. I think it's completely and totally wrong for a hack writer to shove in his own rather stupid ideas into a novel like Pride & Prejudice. Though I'm no great fan of Austen myself I'll still try and defend her books from the hands of people like Grahame-Smith. Of course he's just one of many trying to pervert her books, there seems to be an entire sub-genre of literature devoted to literally perverting her novels and characters into Harlequin romances.

To me it was like Steve Martin's "Dead Mean Don't Wear Plaid". No harm was done to the original, and I found the result to be entertaining.

I thought it was a clever idea and I thought it was well executed.

The Lincoln novel wasn't perverting a classic and it sounds like you have just as much trouble with that one.

I hear what you're saying though. :)

[StratManKudzu]

I do want to add that I don't think Jane Austen is tecnically Victorian literature, If i remember correctly her work may pre-date that and be late romantic?? I don't remember...

[Bluedawg]

This thread reminds me of a plane trip a few years ago ...

some of my fellow travelers were on their way to a Jane Austin convention in Tucson the coming week .....

My only prolonged encounter with Jane Austin was a rather enjoyable classic movie with Greer Garson and Lawrence Olivier playing the lead rolls in "Pride and Prejudice" ... when I mentioned the movie it was like I had asked them to eat wriggling grub worms .... like lots of old movies it really didn't follow the book at all, but it was still a good movie IMHO ....

but they took their Jane Austin seriously and couldn't stand the movie


If people come together from all corners of the earth to discuss Star Trek I guess they can do the same for a classic author as well

I could probably be talked into a Herman Melville convention .. if the trip wasn't too much

Or Tolkien ... but that could get wierd :hide

:banana

[59Vampire]

I think what you all fail to realize here is that number one Vampires are way cooler and will always kick a zombies ass. Number two, this is an original idea and I will not give away the subtext of the plot line other than Abraham Lincoln kicks vampire ass, and number three, there was absolutely no intent in making this thread intellectual! :)

[Steinmetzify]

Read it a few months ago, and loved it. And from what I remember, the guy already has a few options for a movie. I hope he keeps it up.


Stein

[RickC]

a great read! Lots of cool historical stuff and friggin vampires getting killed!! Check it out you wont be dissappointed.

Oh and I predict it will be a movie within 2 years. This aint no twilight folks! ( which I happened to like anyway). I LOVE me them vamps!

Ahead of schedule. Just saw the trailer for the movie this week

:eeks

[semi-hollowbody]

What ever possessed someone to take Abraham Lincoln and vampire hunters...and combine them LOL

I will see it though...sounds like an interesting premise...

[59Vampire]

CANT wait to see this!

[PAF]

Grabbed the novel on vaca a few months back, fun read

[earthtonesaudio]

Watching the preview I was like "what is this...?" and then the title flashed up on the screen and I shouted "OH HELL YES."

[dmb70]

Great book, & pretty historically correct, minus the vampire part of course.

[traviswalk]

I think even real vampires are tired of all the vampire stuff.