Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

[chronovore]

I guess in celebration of the movie coming out, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter audiobook was on sale for US$5.95 on iTunes.

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I should have known better, I really should. To some degree, it may have been better if it had not been an audiobook. For instance, I've been looking for audiobooks read by Alan Rickman or Tim Curry. Instead, whomever was reading this book would break halfway into a "Pepperidge Farm remembers!" tone of voice for Abe whenever something had to be read in character.

But, more than that, the book makes poor use of a couple of decent ideas, either by glossing over them, or bringing them to bear too late.

I'd started off pretty excited about the movie, and now I'm not particularly hopeful there.

Comments

[ferricide.livejournal.com]

i pretty much hate the concept of this totally.

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

It's basically the conceptual inverse of Forrest Gump. And I didn't like that work, either.

[spinxsugar.livejournal.com]

I haven't read it, but I imagined that it couldn't be that amazing. It got pretty big around the time that Pride & Prejudice & Zombies was big and I remember reading that and thinking "meh." The concepts are fun, but the latter wasn't executed well IMO. It was P&P with just a paragraph or two about zombies randomly inserted here and there. I stopped reading about halfway through. :/

[chronovore.livejournal.com]

OK, thanks for warning me off from that P&P&Z as well. I'd been curious, but am no longer so.