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...Tell me where the idea to add zombies to Pride and Prejudice came from. Was there a Eureka moment? Actually the credit for this belongs to my editor, Jason Rekulak. He had had this sort of long-gestating idea of doing some kind of mashup, he called it. He didn't know what it was, he just knew there was something to it. He had these lists, and on one side he had a column of War and Peace and Crime and Punishment and Wuthering Heights and whatever public domain classic literature you can think of. And on the other...
...surprised at how easily the book meshed with the zombie genre. It made a weird kind of sense. It was strange. It's almost as if Jane Austen was subconsciously setting this up for us. You have this sharp-tongued, fiercely independent heroine. It's not a huge leap to say she's a sharp-daggered, fiercely independent heroine. And then you have Darcy, on the other side, who's a pompous and privileged guy. And you say, all right, he's a pompous and privileged slayer. And that's how they battle it out with each other...
...unmentionable - about using wit and good manners to cover up nasty things like sex and money. So why not have one of those unmentionable things be zombies? That was what was so funny to me about this idea, is the fact that these people in Austen's books are kind of like zombies. They live in this bubble of extreme wealth and privilege, and they're so preoccupied with the little trivial nothings of their lives - who's dating who, who's throwing this ball, or having this dinner party. As long as there's enough lamb for the dinner...
...turn into a zombie, but people say horrible things about her in this version. Like, she should just be happy that she's invited to this dinner party, she's a spinster, she should expect nothing more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness. Kind of playing up what Jane Austen had already put there...
...about 7%, if the past is any measure. Analysts insist that when you combine the replacement demand, scrappage rates, demographic changes and an economic recovery, there's a case to be made that North American demand will approach 16 million units within five years. "We haven't seen this kind of positive force in replacement demand for this amount for a while," says the auto economist. And thanks to growing overseas markets like China and Russia, where GM is well positioned, industry growth outside the U.S. will be even greater...