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11 comments:
Just call me Elinor Dashwood!
Third time's a charm. I'm Elinor Dashwood too.
I'm Elizabeth Bennet! I was afraid I would end up as Emma. That was fun!
Apparently I am Elinor Dashwood as well. I haven't read Sense and Sensibility in so long that it doesn't mean a thing to me though. :) I'll go rent the movie.
Elizabeth Bennett for me! The wonderful thing about Jane Austen is that you can identify with all of her heroines. There are times when I could see myself as Emma and times when I could see myself as Marianne. She writes her characters so convincingly. I have the hardest time relating to Fanny Price, though. Boy, I love her novels.
Has anyone read Katherine of the Bower? What a weird short novel. I think out of the movies I liked Pride and Prejudice (the 6 hour BBC version) best, then Emma, then Sense and Sensibility. I didn't like either Mansfield Park movie, bleh! Have you all read any of the Austenesque books by Elizabeth Aston? Those are continuations of the Darcy family or distant relatives of theirs. I liked some better than others. I like Mr. Darcy's daughters, I didn't like the one about the painter, I liked the second Mrs. Darcy and I like the one about Althea just ok.
I have never heard of that book. What is it? I've read Lady Susan by Jane Austen and I thought that one was pretty weird, although I laughed a lot and enjoyed it.
I think my favorite movie is the new Pride and Prejudice with Keira Knightley. I absolutely love the BBC version, but I really hate how drawn out the Lydia Bennet scenes are. I can only take so much depression. But how can anyone beat Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy? It's not possible. Emma is probably my second favorite. Nobody looks better in those dresses than Gwyneth Paltrow.
I don't like the Mansfield Park movie (I've only seen one), but I really enjoyed the book, although it's so serious, unlike Emma, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility. I thought Northanger Abbey was funny because it had many gothic thriller moments, which seemed so juvenile. I got a kick out of it. Persuasion is depressing, in my opinion, but maybe if I read it again, I would think differently.
I haven't read any of the continuation stories. I didn't even know they existed! Maybe I'll have to go buy some. I'm also considering reading Sanditon and The Watsons which are incomplete novels by Jane Austen that someone else completed for her. Has anyone read these?
I have read both the Watsons and Sandition and the completions and wasn't that impressed with them. I watched all the PBS Jane Austen stuff they had on in Jan and Feb. I liked Northanger Abbey and the movie version shown on PBS, it was really funny. I thought Lady Susan was weird too. I would like to see that in a movie just so I could understand it better. Persuasion used to be my favorite book, but I think Sense and Sensibility is now. Ms. Austen regrets (movie) was good and it was cool to see what she was like instead of trying to figure her out from her books. It is based on some letters she wrote to a niece of hers. Colin Firth is the Mr. Darcy to end all Mr. Darcys and GP does look awesome in those dresses. I actually did my hair for Senior Ball in high school trying to copy the styles in Sense and Sensibility. I actually cut some of my hair to pull it off.
Katherine of the Bower is about a girl who is being raised by her aunt in a very restrictive sheltered way and then suddenly a young man comes to visit and all caution is thrown to the wind, with anticlimactic results. Read it and tell me what you think. It seemed incomplete to me.
I was Elizabeth Bennett, too! Yay... she and Fanny Price are my favorites! Robyn, which Mansfield Park did you see? I saw one years ago at the State Theater in Modesto, and I really liked it! I
I saw the one staring Frances O'Connor as Fanny. What I didn't like about it was how they sexualized and glorified slavery in the movie. What upset me about that was it wasn't part of the book, and Jane Austen never cheapened herself to depict that sort of crassness. The part in the book where she mentions her uncle's business and slavery's part in it was minuscule and it was really blown out of proportion in the movie. I just didn't think it was appropriate in an Austen flick. She always had too much tact. I probably would have liked it lots more if I hadn't read the book. It was a good movie. I just didn't like it.
Oops. Starring, not staring.
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