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Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters Paperback – September 15, 2009

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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 other biological monstrosities. As our story 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 love 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 true love? 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 true love!

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This latest effort to combine Jane Austen mania and pop culture horror takes the same format as Pride and Prejudice and Zombies minus the innovation of being the first to do so. Using the familiar plot structure of Austen's first novel, and a few of the most famous lines, the mannered life of early nineteenth century gentry is stripped of witty dialogue and replaced with monsters, vulgarity, and violence. When Mr. Dashwood is eaten by a hammerhead shark his daughters Marianne and Elinor, along with their sister and mother, are sent to Pestilent Island where they meet Sir John Middleton, owner of the islands, and squid-faced Colonel Brandon. Marianne is rescued from a giant octopus by Mr. Willoughby, causing her to fall in love with him. Meanwhile, Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars who is engaged to the evil Lucy Steele. Readers who found humor in the contrast between Austen's familiar novel and the addition of zombies will probably welcome this unevenly written effort.
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JANE AUSTEN is coauthor of the New York Times best seller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which has been translated into 17 languages and optioned to become a major motion picture. She died in 1817.

BEN H. WINTERS is a writer based in Brooklyn.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1594744424
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quirk Books; Original edition (September 15, 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 344 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781594744426
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594744426
Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1180L
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.3 x 0.94 x 8 inches

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Ben H. Winters is the author most recently of the novel The Quiet Boy (Mulholland/Little, Brown, 2021). He is also the author of the novel Golden State; the New York Times bestselling Underground Airlines; The Last Policeman and its two sequels; the horror novel Bedbugs; and several works for young readers. His first novel, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters, was also a Times bestseller. Ben has won the Edgar Award for mystery writing, the Philip K. Dick award in science fiction, the Sidewise Award for alternate history, and France’s Grand Prix de L’Imaginaire. Ben also writes for film and television; he was a producer on the FX show Legion, and on the upcoming Apple TV+ drama Manhunt. He has contributed short stories to many anthologies, as well as in magazines such as Lightspeed. He is the author of three “Audible Originals”– Inside Jobs, Q&A, and Self Help — and several plays and musicals. His reviews and essays have appeared in Slate and in the New York Times Book Review. Ben was born in Washington, D.C., grew up in Maryland, educated in St. Louis, and then grew up a bunch more, in various ways, in places like Chicago, New York, Cambridge, MA, and Indianapolis, IN. These days he lives in LA with his wife, three kids, and one large dog.

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Shellock Holmes

weird but strangely addictive

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 20, 2023

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I loved the additions (except the otter fur, we did not appreciate that) to the original story. So many times when I laughed out loud. You might wonder, why only 4 stars. I didn’t like the underwater dome storyline. It didn’t make sense to me. It’s probably not suppose to but there it is. 4 stars.

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When "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" came out, I knew I had to take the plunge. "Sense and Sensibility" being, of course, my favorite Austen novel, I was looking forward to re-reading a classic and seeing a touch of sea monster fun and humor thrown in.

Make no mistake about it: this book is delightfully funny. The superb Jane Austen prose is all here, but set in such a world where sea monster attacks are brutally common. The exquisite and seamless weaving of this tale (it is truly difficult to separate out the Jane Austen writing from Ben Winters', so thoroughly has he mimicked her style), will lead to a deeply humorous rendition of Austen's high society - where fatalities at beach dinner-parties are a common occurrence and it is the highest breech of manners for a gentleman or lady to acknowledge the death throes of a mere servant, trailing the water behind their pleasure boat. Certain scenes, such as Miss Steele's confession to Elinor Dashwood, are immeasurably enhanced by a concurrent attack on the boat by a vicious sea serpent, and Marianne's rescue by Willoughby is heightened greatly by the addition of an angry octopus.

What I did not expect, however, was just how good the story would be. Rather than make a Jane Austen book with throw-away sea monster jokes, Winters has written a complex and fascinating science fiction sub-plot within the Austen narrative. Though the book is hilarious from front to finish, I found myself laughing out loud less and less because I was more and more drawn into the actual story and I didn't want to waste a moment, even to laugh, before turning the next page. These additions are so superb and true to Austen's original characters - such as Elinor's brave stand against pirates whilst Marianne languishes ill below - that it is difficult to imagine that she would be any less delighted with this novel than I.

If you like Jane Austen and enjoy a touch of morbid humor interlaced with hoity-toity upper-crust social commentary, check out "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" - you'll come for the sea monsters, but I wager you'll stay for the story and become as swept away as I was.

A note about the audio book: I absolutely loved reading "Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters", and this audio book does it such wonderful justice. The voice actress is absolutely superb, and perfectly encapsulates the wry Austen humor that makes this book such a classic. The reading really underlines how wonderfully seamlessly the sea monsters have been woven into the original story - whether the narrator is dwelling on the love trials of the two sisters, or on their imminent watery deaths at the tentacles of various unpleasant creatures, the prose flows smoothly and effortlessly, without the slightest hint of trouble. If you enjoyed Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters the book, or if you just enjoyed Sense and Sensibility, check out this audio recording and be delighted.

This audio book recording is the MP3 version of the book. It took less than a few minutes to insert the CD into my computer, and drag-and-drop all the MP3s from the CD file directory to my MP3 player, as simple as that. There are 50 tracks, one for each chapter.

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A little slimey

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Sense and Sensibility and Seas Monsters seemed a little slower than Pride Prejudice and Zombies. Also, Where Zombies made the general changes to the script mild and generally ignorable (in the sense that you could read this book without missing anything from the actual book), Sea Monsters makes it a little more difficult by infusing so much of the supernatural in the story, I feel a lot of the original story gets lost by the alteration in supernatural. Not to say this is a bad thing! The supernatural infusion maintains the liveliness and freshness of Zombies and I eagerly await Android Karenina because I feel it definitely adds to the ability to read a classic without it growing stale.

In summary, a great and engaging read, but if you're looking for something that follows the original as close as Zombies, this becomes a little far-fetched...but still awesome fun!

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No hash job of an old story, a completely new take

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I've read 'Pride, Prejudice and Zombies' and unlike that book which was a basic hash job of taking an existing story and adding Zombies and the training of the sisters. Here we have a complete rewrite of the story from the beginning to them. I was really not expecting such a complete job to be done on the book as was done. Here we have the same storyline as the original one. However, it has been completely rewritten to change the setting, add the sea monster story line and keep the same characters in line with who they were and how they were written in the original story of 'Sense and Sensibility.' We still have the sister ending up pretty much as they did in the original story line just with some real twists. I have enjoyed reading this book while driving and now and moving on to 'Persuasion'. I recommend this book over the entire 'Pride, Prejudice and Zombies' which to me having been written by two different authors don't flow at all.

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20 pages in and I'm already disappointed

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Like most other readers of this book, I am an Austen fan of long-standing, and was amazed and impressed with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I had hoped that this book would live up to the quality and entertainment value of the first Quirk Classic, but after only 20 pages, I am already disappointed.

Jane Austen's voice is practically lost in its entirety in this volume. That was one of the most delightful and humorous aspects of P&P&Z, but this author is either uninterested in, or unable to, pull off the same creative weaving here. In addition to which, there are already *significant* plot departures in the book by page 20. If the author wasn't intending to stay true to the original story in either dialogue or plot, then why bother writing a mash-up of this kind?

Perhaps I would feel differently about the lack of Austen's voice and the plot changes if the writing or story development of this version were sufficiently good in their own right. However, this is sadly not the case, particularly when compared to P&P&Z. The writing is wooden and functional. It's as if the author's interventions in the story are printed on the page in a different color ink, that's how much they clash with the original text.

I will probably wind up finishing the book (or at least attempting to), but I don't anticipate enjoying it very much. When I sat down to read P&P&Z, I was completely captivated, and read the whole thing in one marathon sitting. I doubt if I will be able to read more than 10 pages of Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters at one time.

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V. G. Harwood

Tastier than a broiled rattle snake (cut up into slices like a cake)

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It has long been my fervent belief that there can't be many great works of literature which would not be significantly enhanced by the addition of giant octupi, marauding armies of swordfish forming themselves into attack forces and man-eating molluscs and this book has just completely confirmed my opinion in this.

I loved this book - what's not to love? The classic tale of the Dashwood sisters and their adventures and misadventures through polite society and in love melded perfectly together with a fishy accompaniment. Winters never misses a beat in his oceanic additions and I was laughing pretty much all the way through the book. There are some really clever twists here - transforming the fashionable heart of society into Sub-Station Beta was inspired, and the addition of the Fanged Sea Beast of Devon into the scene where Lucy Steele makes her devastating relevation to Elinor concerning Edward Ferrars adds a further dimension to the drama and action.

I couldn't quite get why there were so many negative reviews of this book, but I do suspect that it is appealing to a very particular type of reader. You have to love Jane Austen to appreciate it(as well as sea monsters). Indeed, the author gives it away in his dedication at the beginning of the book. This book is aimed at people who love both "great literature and great silliness". If you don't like both, I suspect this isn't going to tick many boxes for you.

I'm not a big fan of authors including "reading notes" or "guidance for reading group discussion" at the end of their works - readers don't need to be told what to think, but I'm prepared to make an exception in this case. Winters' suggested discussions throw up some fascinating insights and questions to consider, such as "Have you ever been attacked by giant lobsters, either figuratively or literally" and "Which would be worse: being eaten by a shark or consumed by the acidic stomach juice of a sand-shambling man-o'-war?" The latter led to a very heated argument between my 7 year old son and myself, with he arguing for the shark and myself leaning towards the sand-shambling man-o'-war. We had to declare a truce in the end and go onto the subject of sea witches. We failed to think of any books featuring orangutan valets in Western literature.

Cannot recommend this book highly enough.

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David Wistow

Not a big fan

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 18, 2013

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Bought this after reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I enjoyed P,P&Z, but this book was stale and uninteresting.

I don't know whether it is because I have never read Sense and Sensibility, or whether S&S is just a rubbish book compared to P&P, but it left me wanting.

If you liked S&S, this book may actually appeal to you - no promises though.

I rarely walk away from a book once I've started reading it, but I put this one down before I got halfway - terrible.

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Kevin

A bit of silly fun

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Bought as a gift for someone who loves all things Austen so it was a risky joke gift. She enjoyed reading it and found the take on a well loved story entertaining, if somewhat crow barred in. There are a few in this series but the conclusion was that one or two is enough; no need to get them all.

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Five Stars

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Exactly what I wanted and good condition

miskimin

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 12, 2014

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Great book

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