Oh dear lord

[erastes]

Bandwagons…

Is there nothing they won’t do to Pride and Prejudice?  Are people SO incapable of writing their own plots and characters?  Look, I know I wrote fanfic for years, and I know I DO have a project in the future which involves a “relook” at one of Bill’s plays, but I won’t be involving vampires and zombies and god knows what else.

Who is willing to bet that there will be werewolf Darcy before the end of 2010? Maybe I should clamber on that bandwagon….

ARGH!!!! Five more?  Thank you, chinae !!

Comments

[upstart-crow.livejournal.com]

I love re-tellings, and work in them a lot as a fantasy writer. But something about these Austen sequels/retellings just ticks me off. I think it's because none of them really sound like they even need to be set in Pride and Prejudice, or that they don't seem to be doing anything particularly interesting with the source text.

And vampyres and Austen? Ugh. It's like mixing two of my least favorite things ever into a cocktail of dumb. (Admittedly not an Austen fan, and one of the only women I've ever met who isn't).

[erastes.livejournal.com]

I think that's exactly how I feel about it, I have been struggling with my annoyance because I have this reworking of something famous in my head and I know many people will say "but you said..." but I've had a look at a lot of these books and as you say, it's nothing more or less than AU fanfic, not a "re-envisioning" at all.