{"id":505,"date":"2009-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/?p=505"},"modified":"2024-12-31T14:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T01:01:27","slug":"sense-sensibility-and-sea-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/01\/01\/sense-sensibility-and-sea-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Sense Sensibility and Sea Monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><strong>Ben H Winters<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\"><em>Quirk<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\">Otago Daily Times, 2009<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">I\u2019m sure that Ben H Winters thought that mixing B-grade horror with subtle social satire was a good idea.\u00a0 I\u2019m not so certain his \u2018co-author\u2019 Jane Austen would agree. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In <em>Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters<\/em>, a well-bred young woman must be proficient not only in music, art and embroidery, but also able to kill a homicidal sea-monster with her bare hands without breaking a sweat.\u00a0 When Mr Henry Dashwood is torn to death by a hammerhead shark, the Dashwood daughters and their mother find themselves domiciled on the bleak and isolated Deadwood Isle, far from the comfort and society of their childhood home.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">They do not want for company however, and while Elinor, the eldest, pines for her brother-in-law Edward Ferrars, 16 year old Marianne is courted by both the dashing young treasure hunter Willougby, who saves her from a giant octopus his wetsuit showing off his manly beauty to striking effect. But the worthy Colonel Brandon also seeking her hand, despite a curse that has afflicted him with extensive facial tentacles. Heartbreak is guaranteed, and we can only hope true love prevails-unless avenging denizens of the deep kill them all. If only! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Although the original concept is mildly amusing, the authors have already collaborated on <em>Pride, Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>, and I\u2019m not sure it merits a reprisal.\u00a0 Furthermore, despite maintaining the central narrative of Ms Austen\u2019s original novel, the social parody in which she excels becomes a blunt instrument in Mr Winters\u2019 hands. This is not one for the Jane Austen book club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben H Winters<\/p>\n<p>\nOtago Daily Times review 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[88,110,370,18,407],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-88","tag-ben-h-winters","tag-fiction","tag-odt","tag-speculative-sci-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1440,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/1440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cushla.spooky-possum.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}