The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead
By Don Borchert
4/5
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About this ebook
Mark Twain once said "The rumors of my death were greatly exaggerat—BRAINS!!!!!"
Pulled from the grip of Mark Twain's rotting zombie hands, is Tom Sawyer like you've never seen him before, in a swashbuckling, treasure-seeking adventure, spiked with blood, gore, and zombie madness.
In this expanded and illustrated edition of Mark Twain's beloved tale of boyhood adventures, Tom's usual mishaps are filled with the macabre and take place in a world overrun by a zombie virus that turns people into something folks call "Zum." The United States is infected with a plague of rotting, yet spry, Zum, searching for fresh meat.
In this world, there's no need to whitewash Aunt Polly's fence. Instead, Tom cons his friends into sharpening fence posts to lethal points to repel a Zum attack. To escape the boredom of civilized life, Tom and his pal Huckleberry Finn don't have to fake their deaths, just pretend to be Zum. And instead of playing cowboys and Indians, Tom hones his fighting skills in a bloodthirsty game of "Us and Zum." He always wins . . . until he bumps into the real thing.
When vicious, self-aware zombies evolve and threaten the town . . . what will Tom and Huck do to protect their loved ones, and will they live to tell the tale?
With all the comedy, romance, and adventure that readers expect from Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer now becomes a new breed of hero for a whole new world—a grade-A zombie hunter.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Don Borchert
Don Borchert, a long-serving assistant librarian in the suburban California public library system, is the author of Free for All (Virgin Books, 2007) and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead (Tor Books, 2010). Borchert is a popular lecturer on the library circuit and in 2008 he was keynote speaker for the American Library Association (ALA) national convention as well as for the Missouri Library Association and Nevada Library association.
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Reviews for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It was fun if not taken very seriously. I thought it was a fun twist on the original story. I found it an enjoyable and fast read if you want something that is just fun.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5For the most part, the zombie menace known as the Zum is carefully placed in the background. Characters are aware of and talk about the threat and it affects the way they lead their lives, but their interaction with the Zum is fairly minimal until quite close to the end of the story. I do not fault this however, as the slow buildup made this mashup book far more believable.The author did a very good job of seamlessly adding new material to the story. I dont think Twain is spinning in his grave nearly as fast as some of the other authors who have had thier works "monsterized". (Im lacking a term to describe this new phenominon of adding paranormal critters to classic literature!)