P&P has gotten very strong, positive reviews in Salon, Slate, NYTimes & the Chron.

I doubt it will replace the Firth miniseries in the hearts of hardcote Austenians, but it does seem to be a creditable version.

The impression I'm getting is that it's a good movie, but a poor adaptation. Which is fine, even if it probably means I won't like it.

Of course, I also think Wuthering Heights is a better story than a book, as I can hardly stand reading it, but I love the atmosphere and the moors and the doomed romance.

Bingo. One of these days I should try re-reading Wuthering Heights, and see if I still want to shake some sense into the main characters, or if I can ignore their AMAZINGLY stupid behavior and just be gleeful about the over-the-top gothness of the book.

One of these days I should try re-reading Wuthering Heights, and see if I still want to shake some sense into the main characters, or if I can ignore their AMAZINGLY stupid behavior

Substitute Tess of the D'Ubervilles for Wuthering Heights, and this is me. I was supposed to read Tess for my Victorian Lit class, but ending up tossing it across the room in sheer frustration with that whiny bitch of a title character. The only novel that I enjoyed in that class was Alice in Wonderland (got on A on that paper, too!).

Tess of the D'Ubervilles! I spit in your eye!

Actually, I pretty much hate all Hardy, but especially Jude the Obscure, after the reading of which I wanted to slit my own throat.

I was supposed to read Tess for my Victorian Lit class, but ending up tossing it across the room in sheer frustration with that whiny bitch of a title character.

Oh word word word word word. Most annoying book ever.

I love Tess of the D'urbervilles. And Jude the Obscure. But I am aware that there are very few like me. I did see the movie Tess at a formative age, so I sort of knew the story beforehand....

I think I would except I think Keira might be too straight-out babealicious to be EB. I think her attractiveness is supposed to sneak up on you after you get to know how great she is(except for the pretty eyes, right?) I'm no purist though, in fact, I'd love to see it as a Mod musical so they could put "Dizzy Miss Lizzy" in it. You purists can be glad I'm skint. I would probably go if I didn't pay full price.

My sister's a P&P book purist, and was disappointed in the BBC miniseries (she preferred the one from a few years before that, seen on PBS), mostly due to the added scene of Darcy diving into the pond (and the wet shirt that followed--oh, excuse me while I wipe up my drool...) and her opinion that Jennifer Ehle was too pretty to play Elizabeth Bennett.

I also thought Ehle was a babe, the woman who played the "pretty" sister wasn't as pretty (she has a horse nose!), and [heretic alert] not only did I not like Colin Firth in the pond, I don't like Colin Firth at all.