
Me wanty. One of my favorite things in the world? Jane Austen. Another? Smart humor. Seth Grahame-Smith, the one who some are saying bludgeoned the Austen aristocratic ideal to death (which is AWESOME!) had this to say on his blog about writing this book: "Because the idea of uptight, early 19th Century aristocrats parading around in their finery, attending stuffy dances and taking tea in the midst of an all-out war with the undead struck me as really, really funny. And because the thought of Elizabeth Bennet striking down hordes of zombies with a [...]