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« on: July 05, 2010, 01:41:49 PM »

Well, here's one way to pump up your publishing portfolio - take a public domain story (public domain in the US at least), change the gender of the protagonist, and hey presto a new story is born...

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« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2010, 02:57:16 PM »

And I thought all those zombies and werewolves invading Jane Austen novels were bad enough.

 Huh?

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« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2010, 07:45:29 PM »

Dear God when will this end? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a bit of a laugh but the floodgates have been opened to a deluge of excrement hitherto unseen.

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« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2010, 10:44:38 PM »

Dear God when will this end? Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a bit of a laugh but the floodgates have been opened to a deluge of excrement hitherto unseen.

I'm with you che2000. I loath all these reworkings of classic novels just to add vampires or zombies or whatever
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« Reply #4 on: July 06, 2010, 01:52:45 AM »

Also, who is buying this crap? 'Ironic' goths who laugh at the title but never read them? Lazy writers who want to learn how to make a quick buck? Who?!
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« Reply #5 on: July 06, 2010, 02:03:01 AM »

I think there has to be an opportunistic band-wagon jumping element to the whole mash-up thing. I know a few people who read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (myself included) and that particular book was worth the odd chuckle, but maybe it's similar to what happened in the 1970's with the British horror boom with publishers desperate to grab a slice of the rather lucrative pie before it's all gone and quality bedammed (that having been said, I do have rather fond memories of Night of the Crabs, Eat Them Alive and other such novels but at least the authors had to sit down and write them rather than simply use the find and replace function on their keyboards).

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« Reply #6 on: July 06, 2010, 03:21:40 AM »

I don't think anyone is buything them.
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« Reply #7 on: July 08, 2010, 08:48:20 PM »

Perhaps its the vampires and zombies that are buying them.
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« Reply #8 on: July 08, 2010, 08:58:27 PM »

and the werewolves and the seamonsters
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« Reply #9 on: July 08, 2010, 09:43:51 PM »

I think only the zombies.

Vampires are writing them though.
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« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2010, 10:16:18 PM »

True... I think the seamonsters prefer their classics left alone
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