I've noticed a number of books that follow up on Pride and Prejudice, or play off it. Most seem to be either what happens when Darcy and Elizabeth marry, one was about their daughter, one was about Lydia Bennett, and so on. I understand the appeal of playing off a known - and loved - book, but a lot of these don't appeal to me ... and there just seem to be a lot of them.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
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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."
Toddson - Apr 20, 2009 7:34:03 am PDT #8908 of 28414
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
JZ - Apr 20, 2009 7:46:01 am PDT #8909 of 28414
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
one was about Lydia Bennett
Really? Man, you could not pay me to read an entire novel about Lydia. She's a great, delicious trainwreck of a secondary character in Elizabeth's and Jane's stories, and P&P would be a markedly lesser novel without her sheer thoughtless awfulness, but I literally cannot imagine an entire novel about her being anything but agony. She hasn't even got the cleverness and animal cunning to make a great antiheroine like Lizzie Eustace or Becky Sharp.
Toddson - Apr 20, 2009 7:50:09 am PDT #8910 of 28414
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
JZ - yup. I remember it actually getting pretty good reviews ... but if you really disliked her, then I'd say avoid it.
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2009 7:55:04 am PDT #8911 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Good goddamn, I had no idea there were so many P&P sequels/riffs.
Kathy A - Apr 20, 2009 7:57:59 am PDT #8912 of 28414
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've read one of those called Pemberly by (I think) Andrea Barrett. She also wrote a follow-up on Sense and Sensibility called The Third Sister, about the youngest daughter whose name I can't remember offhand.
Dana - Apr 20, 2009 8:01:42 am PDT #8913 of 28414
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Margaret.
Barb - Apr 20, 2009 8:30:11 am PDT #8914 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”
I just waded into the pool of reviewing books by reviewing Beyond Heaving Bosoms- The Smart Bitches' Guide to Romance Novels. [link]
Aside from the fact that I consider Sarah and Candy to be friends, this is a really wonderful book that talks about the good, the bad, and the mullet-y within romance and the romance community.
Amy - Apr 20, 2009 10:09:17 am PDT #8915 of 28414
Because books.
I can't wait to read that, Barb.
Polter-Cow - Apr 20, 2009 12:30:45 pm PDT #8916 of 28414
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Book recommendations! I had a Sherman Alexie weekend: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian and Flight. The first book is fantastic and lovable, and the second is very good.
Barb - Apr 20, 2009 1:59:25 pm PDT #8917 of 28414
“Not dead yet!”