Jane Austen Club

LadyAnneOfNarnia

LadyAnneOfNarnia

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Personally, I am a huge fan of Jane Austen. I read Pride and Prejudice a few years ago and adored it. I have recently read Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion. I'm planning to read Mansfield Park next. For all you who are crazy about the movies made from her books, (obviously) her books or just her. Please come. Lets sit down and talk about it...
 
Sad to say, but no. I really really want to though. Just haven't gotten around to it. If you see it before I do, do tell me what you think of it.
 
This makes my lit major heart sing! I'd *love* to have a good Janite discussion ;).

Personally, Pride and Prejudice is my favorite, but Persuasion has technical merits all it's own.

*runs to get a cup of tea*
 
Becoming Jane was ok, I have to read P&P for school and it is a little wordy but it is good. I personally like Sence and Senciblity the best. I have seen the old P&P and just love the scene of the Netherfield ball, I can queto the whole dance of Mr.Darcy and Miss Benet.
 
I'm so glad there are more "Janites" (;)) Out there.
Inkling said:
This makes my lit major heart sing! I'd *love* to have a good Janite discussion ;).

Personally, Pride and Prejudice is my favorite, but Persuasion has technical merits all it's own.

*runs to get a cup of tea*
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I'm glad you are so enthusiastic about it, Inkling. What is it you like so much about Pride & Prejudice?
 
LadyAnneOfNarnia said:
I'm so glad there are more "Janites" (;)) Out there.


I'm glad you are so enthusiastic about it, Inkling. What is it you like so much about Pride & Prejudice?
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Inkling's Top Ten Reasons Why P&P Rocks

10. Spunky, intelligent Lizzie
9. Pro-Marriage arguments abound
8. Mrs. Bennet-simply hilarious
7. Virtue is rewarded
6. Success comes through not thinking overly much with head or heart
5. Another time, another world
4. Thoughtful dialog in a way that's rare nowadays
3. Tea, tea, and more tea
2. More romances than contained in all of Barnes and Noble's romance section
1. It's not Jane Eyre, but it's right up there :D.
 
Inkling said:
Inkling's Top Ten Reasons Why P&P Rocks

10. Spunky, intelligent Lizzie
9. Pro-Marriage arguments abound
8. Mrs. Bennet-simply hilarious
7. Virtue is rewarded
6. Success comes through not thinking overly much with head or heart
5. Another time, another world
4. Thoughtful dialog in a way that's rare nowadays
3. Tea, tea, and more tea
2. More romances than contained in all of Barnes and Noble's romance section
1. It's not Jane Eyre, but it's right up there :D.
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These are good reasons indeed ;)

I'm also a Jane Austen fan, though I've only read Pride & Prejudice and Persuasion so far (I've read Sense & Sensibility too, but I don't remember much... It's been a long time). P&P it's actually one of my favorite books. And I've liked the 2005 movie pretty much too (I'm always listening to its soundtrack *_*)
 
Emma is another good one of her books. All though I personally do not favor it much it is still a good book. She had a hard life though! Gosh I would never have done what she did. To me I would marry for the better not for love if I was in her state
 
I love Jane Austen! And I love it when we have a discussion about her going on here. :)

I've read Pride and Prejudice a few times (recently reread it), Sense and Sensibility, I just finished reading Emma, and I've just started Mansfield Park. Of course, Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book of her's so far. I just love Lizzie and Darcy, and Mr. Bennet always makes me laugh. :p Sense and Sensibility and Emma were also really great. Emma has so many memorable and hilarious characters. :D

I also love the movies. The new version of Pride and Prejudice is my favorite movie ever, and no offense to the BBC version fans here (who I know probably greatly outnumber me), but I think it is so much better. It's so romantic and beautiful, and the soundtrack is amazing. I also love Sense and Sensibility. I haven't seen Emma yet and I can't find it around here, so I'm going to order it soon (the 1995 version with Gwyneth Paltrow).

I'm so glad I discovered Jane Austen. I saw the trailer for the new movie, and I thought that it would be good, but I wanted to read the book before I saw the movie. So I read Pride and Prejudice, and I've been hooked ever since. :p
 
I have read and enjoyed most of Miss Austen's books. But the snobbishness of a hereditary aristocracy who had not done a blessed thing to earn their privileges, and who actually disdained people who DID something productive in the world, often made me wonder why the use of the guillotine did not make its way to England as well as France. Actually, though, I know why: John Wesley's great awakening helped produce social reforms in England that addressed some of the grievances of people who were not so lucky as to "have three thousand pounds a year."
 
Copperfox said:
I have read and enjoyed most of Miss Austen's books. But the snobbishness of a hereditary aristocracy who had not done a blessed thing to earn their privileges, and who actually disdained people who DID something productive in the world, often made me wonder why the use of the guillotine did not make its way to England as well as France. Actually, though, I know why: John Wesley's great awakening helped produce social reforms in England that addressed some of the grievances of people who were not so lucky as to "have three thousand pounds a year."
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Actually, Jane Austen would have poked fun at the same people you're complaining about. Her rather wicked indictments are just part of what makes reading her so much fun :D. Snarky 21st century teens have nothing on Ms. Austen at her finest.

You make a great point about Wesley's contributions as well; between the Great Revival and the Evangelical contribution to the end of the British slave trade, the 18th century was anything but dull :).

I'm off to Bath to take the waters...thank goodness I've already found a husband ;).
 
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife" that is my favorite quote from P&P.......it is sooo true in my state of veiw.....how I am taught....I guess
 
snowflower said:
Emma is very good. Knightley is my favorite of Jane Austen's male characters.
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Darcy is my favorite. :p I'm looking foward to seeing Emma and Mr. Knightley's relationship in the movie. Although I have to admit, I was a little thrown off at first when I was reading the book and realized that he was like 16 years older than her, right? :eek: :p I still think it's a little weird, but hey, Colonel Brandon was older than Marianne, and that worked out well. They were really cute in the book and movie. :)
 
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This is Probably the only -ites Club I'd ever join. Another thing that is so awesome about P&P, is no one has come close to matching her style in the book. I have read some of the stories modern day authors have written as sequels, prequels, or otherwise and quite frankly they would be the equivalent of me trying to compete in a Physics Competition, that is pretty bad concidering I have never taken an ounce of physics. They try to spice up the story in a way that the people of Jane Austen's day would never have read.
 
I new fan of Jane Austen's work. I just started reading Pride and Prejudice and I can hardly put it down. I also have seen the film Becoming Jane which I thought was magnifciant. I also have seen most of Sense and Sensibility and some of Pride and Prejudice.
 
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