Thursday, September 9, 2010

Day 224 –What a happy day for booksellers (pg 93)


Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Austen and Ben H. Winters, started out to be more promising than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Although I did actually become quite bored with it, and also irritated by the apparent stupidness of the characters.

The Dashwood Sisters (who are, in the original, an intelligent trio) are entirely self absorbed and ignore very important goings on around them. Why doesn’t anyone question the youngest Dashwood, Miss Margaret, who starts hearing and seeing strange things on the island where they live? Why doesn’t Elinor Dashwood tell someone a swordfish has been making small cracks in the glass dome of the underwater city? I can’t stand when things are made obvious to the reader and should be obvious to the characters but are ignored, that is my major issue with this book.

I was however, more willing to believe that sea creatures had mutated and were plotting to eradicate human civilisation, than believe that the Bennet sisters could receive private marshal arts training in China in order to take on armies of the living dead. Perhaps that has a deeper reflection on my psyche... One best not delve too deep.

57 days remaining, 16 books to go.

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