Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
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- ISBN13: 9781594744426
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From the publisher of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies comes a new tale of romance, heartbreak, and tentacled mayhem.
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and additional biological monstrosities. As our tale opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in like with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find right like? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest—and only the swiftest swimmers will find right like!
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Dmitri Jr. has to read at least two books in classic literature for his high school English class this semester. The first thing he said to me was “classic literature stinks!” I said that it wasn’t all that terrible and suggested that he read “G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra.” Sorry to say, that one wasn’t on the list of acceptable books.
But we did find Jane Austin’s Sense & Sensibility. Thank goodness that the sea monster version is out. I told my son to get that edition and if the teacher wants to know what he is reading, all he has to do is hold the book in such a way that the teacher sees the book spine. If you hold the lower edge of the book with your hand, you can’t really see the sea monsters part of the title. When it comes to writing the book report, I told my son that whenever he has an urge to talk about monsters from the deep, just slot in the words “transgressing boundaries.” He is in a public school after all and the teachers don’t try very hard anyways so nobody will notice.
Just as a note, this is not the same “teacher” that I had a run-in last year over Killer Klowns from Outer Space. That guy got a bit annoying when I challenged his view of so-called “high culture.”
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Synopsis: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters expands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and additional biological monstrosities. As our tale opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and sent to live on a mysterious island full of savage creatures and dark secrets. While sensible Elinor falls in like with Edward Ferrars, her romantic sister Marianne is courted by both the handsome Willoughby and the hideous man-monster Colonel Brandon. Can the Dashwood sisters triumph over meddlesome matriarchs and unscrupulous rogues to find right like? Or will they fall prey to the tentacles that are forever snapping at their heels? This masterful portrait of Regency England blends Jane Austen’s biting social commentary with ultraviolent depictions of sea monsters biting. It’s survival of the fittest–and only the swiftest swimmers will find right like!
So…looking around at additional reviews on this book I seem to be one of the few who feel the same way I do about this book, or maybe one of the few who hold this opinion but really read the book. Before I read this book all I could reflect about was how this man is destroying a classic, really defacing it. Now, after having agreed the leader a honest chance, I feel he is really defacing a classic but…in a creative way. This is the first time I have ever seen a book like this and well, by the pop up of these books over the last year, it won’t be the last. I finished this book and Winters goes into some very creative meanderings with the original characters and language as Jane Austen privileged but I still just felt incorrect reading it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Got the first adaptaion of Pride, Prejudice and Zombies at [...] and had to come and get the additional adaptaions. They are brilliant and well written.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Jane Austen and Ben Winters is another mash-up of classic fiction and fantasy. The basic tale is the same as the Marianne and Elinor deal with abject poverty, searching for like and affection, and relatives who are less than pleasant, while at the same time navigating their sisterly relationship. The twist is that sea monsters have taken control of the water and attack humans daring to cross the sea or live not more than it in Sub-Station Beta.
Readers will either delight in reading a mash-up of Jane Austen’s work with its fantastical and historically inaccurate fundamentals (i.e. the being of wet suits, submarines, and underwater domes where people live and work) or they will throw the book aside as ridiculous. The distress with these genre benders is that they regularly polarize readers in one camp or another. Unlike Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!, which merely inserts new sentences to achieve the goal of building the Bennets zombie slayers, Winters makes a tale nearly all his own, but using Austen’s Dashwood sisters.
By remaking Austen’s world and threatening the characters in it with deranged sea monsters, Winters takes a number of liberties with the text, although he does maintain Austen’s style for the most part. But, unlike Grahame-Smith’s mash-up where readers learn how the Bennets became skillful zombie slayers, the mysterious Sub-Station Beta and its “experiments” are not revealed or even hinted at for most of the book. This flaw can make it hard for readers to continue reading this adventure because so much is unknown and the readers are scrambling in the dark as characters run from monsters, play games, chat while being attacked by monsters, bring up mysterious smoking mountains and five-pointed stars, and generally seem to shrug off the danger.
Overall, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters resembles the dangers of additional sea-faring novels — even 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Unabridged Classics) — and mixes it with ramped up social commentary a la Jane Austen. The latter half of the novel is the most action packed and is nearly rushed along. But by the end, readers get swept up in adventure, myth, and outrageous challenges and have nothing to do but delight in the ride.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
This book was so amusing! I have not read the original Sense & Sensibility, but I have watched the movie and this was very similar. EXCEPT, they are on a mysterious island surrounded by an ocean filled with sea monsters..and a Colonel with a tentacled beard…and various monstrous creatures, including the Devonshire Fang Beast. I had permanently wondered what was so fantastic about these Quirk Classic books (incl. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) and now I see it. This book was hilarious from beginning to end and the tale was so appealing. The characters are exactly how Austen made, and it’s basically the same tale line, but much more entertaining. I would certainly recommend this book.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5