Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters

By: Jane Austen, Ben H. Winters

Narrated by: Katherine Kellgren

Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

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!

©2009 Quirk Books (P)2009 Audible, Inc.

a fun story

the narrators voice was pretty good. the story was a fun twist on the classic

great

great read wish their where more book like it . loved every minute of it

The BEST audiobook I've ever listened to!!!

This is perhaps not everyone's cup of tea. But, if you go into this book with the right frame of mind, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters will be absolutely the most hilarious book you've ever come across. My wife is a devoted Jane Austen fan. Myself? I HATE anything written before 1950, and cannot for the life of me understand why anybody would subject themselves to the torture of a Jane Austen novel. But, amazingly, both my wife and I LOVED this audiobook. We listened to the entirety of the novel during a 2-day road trip, and could not wait to get back in the car in order to listen further. Katherine Kellgren is masterful as the reader.

meh?

just couldn't finish. maybe this book would be better if I read the original? I don't think I'll do that, but maybe one day I'll finish this

Austen Meets Nautical Sci-Fi

This has been something I've wanted to listen to for a long time as I tried and enjoyed "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" and very much enjoyed it. The narrator did a solid job, the story had just the right amount of Austen's content and just enough sea monsters (although I feel this novel leaned heavier on the sea monsters than PPZ did on the zombies). It is a fun little listen I was able to finish in just about three sittings, as it is the sort of story that goes great as background noise for almost any activity.

funny but gory

It started out as a funny take on a classic novel but the sea monster attacks and the human disregard for life get to be too much. Why doesn't Eleanor help the drowning servant?! And why doesn't anyone look for Margaret when she disappears?

The Graft Didn't Take

I like reading lit from Austen's period, and I like science fiction. I thought this would be perfect! However, the author didn't take either genre seriously, and this sort of seemingly dashed off romp is too poorly executed to make it work. I can see how someone could enjoy it if they don't want subtlety and complexity...sort of like old style comic books.
Stick to reading Austen and Neal Stephenson alternately if you enjoy being immersed in another time and alternate realities.

Disappointing

After the previous Pride and Prejudice and Sea Monsters I was curious to see where this adventure would take the reader. Although Kathryn Kellgren's reading is masterful as always, the material is so bad that nothing can really save it. Not worth the paper, or MB it takes up in the world.

two far of s deviation for my liking

This book has great narration but the book differs too much from the original for my pleasure. words seem our of place and character personalities are different

Taking all of the sense out of Sense and Sensibility

I absolutely love Sense and Sensibility. I love the narrator of this version. She is the only reason I would give this book 2/10 instead of 1/10.
Everything Ben H Winters added to this story only proved to confuse me. There were no resolutions to anything he introduced. And, spoilers, in a world where ocean animals go out of their way to systematically attack humans, why in the absolute hell would you build a city 4 miles UNDER THE OCEAN.

I can’t.