Mansfield Park is the one that kind of blows.
I found it much more enjoyable once I learned that it was her playing with the conventions of gothic novels.
Glory: Lesson number one, Vampires equal impure! Spike: Damn right I'm impure, I'm as impure as the driven yellow snow!
'Dirty Girls'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Pix - Sep 18, 2011 5:13:00 pm PDT #16405 of 28286
The status is NOT quo.
le nubian - Sep 18, 2011 5:13:17 pm PDT #16406 of 28286
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Have any of you seen the movie the Jane Austen Book Club. To my shame, I have seen that movie 2-3 times.
It does not get better with repeat viewings. It's like all the things that are absolutely improbable, stick out as even more so each time I see the film.
Liese S. - Sep 18, 2011 5:14:50 pm PDT #16407 of 28286
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Ooh, how so, Pix?
Pix - Sep 18, 2011 5:18:22 pm PDT #16408 of 28286
The status is NOT quo.
There’s a bit of a longer article about it here, Liese: [link]
It still isn’t my favorite Austen (by far!), but I at least found it less annoying after learning that.
sj - Sep 18, 2011 5:19:05 pm PDT #16409 of 28286
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Mansfield Park is the one that kind of blows.
People either hate that one or think it is her most brilliant. There if very little in between.
I've read all the completed novels of Austen and love them all.
Dana - Sep 18, 2011 5:24:05 pm PDT #16410 of 28286
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I found it much more enjoyable once I learned that it was her playing with the conventions of gothic novels.
Hmph. The heroine is spineless and the hero is a drip.
Anne W. - Sep 18, 2011 5:26:50 pm PDT #16411 of 28286
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
The heroine is spineless and the hero is a drip.
For a moment, I thought you were talking about Twilight.
Strix - Sep 18, 2011 5:33:17 pm PDT #16412 of 28286
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
total fucking spittake
Hil R. - Sep 19, 2011 6:58:44 am PDT #16413 of 28286
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Riveting, wonderful, funny at times, and gripping at others (The Long Winter is an amazing account of the killer winter of 1880-1881, and the chapter when Almanzo and Cap risk their lives to get enough wheat to feed the town and save it from starvation is edge-of-your-seat nailbitingly written).
I hated that scene. As I remember it (it's been a while), Almanzo and his brother had a whole lot of wheat stocked up to be seed for the next year. Almanzo was risking his life to save his next year's crop. Cap didn't know this -- Cap thought that there wasn't any wheat at all in town, and he thought he was risking his life to save the town. And Almanzo let Cap go along with him, even though he had to have known that Cap wouldn't have agreed to it if he knew that the Wilders had some wheat.
sumi - Sep 19, 2011 7:51:40 am PDT #16414 of 28286
Art Crawl!!!
That's right - I have to say, I loved it when Pa Ingalls figured it out.
Back to Amy's tour of Awesomeness: I am attempting to get a friend intrigued enough to drive me to the event. Will see if it works.