Jane Austen (2 Viewers)

[PoisonIvy]

Okay here's a question for Austen fans (if there does happen to be ne out there, anywhere?)
Favourite Austen novel/character and why??????

 

[babyslug]

I was forced to read Emma for my HSC. I didn't get past chapter 4. Everyday i would say to myself "Alright, come on sagey you have to read at least 5 pages a day". Then i would be out like a light. I never did end up reading the rest of the book - although i equal firsted in the assessment.
I burned all my Austen notes. DEATH TO JANE AUSTEN! oh..hang on..

 

[iambored]

i also had to read emma. it was a bit boring and it dragged on a bit, but it wasnt bad

 

[varus]

Mr Darcy!!! definetly....both in the book and BBC series....he is the ultimate partner..tall, dark handsome, smart, reserved, a real mannnn mmmmmm ohh if only he were real. he's such a gentleman!

 

[Sarah168]

pride and prejudice....esp the miniseries (although the book is just as good!)

 

[suz]

Mr Darcy is my favourite character, My english teachers dream man, perhaps he has grown on me too lol
Surprisingly I actually enjoyed reading Emma

 

[veanz]

Apart from Mr Darcy and Mr Knightley, i love Mrs Bennett (PP) and Miss Bates (Emma) both for obvious reasons.

Although, speaking of heroes like Knightley and Darcy, reading so much Austen has raised the bar for what i want in a man lol.

 

[suz]

OMG I can't believe I forgot Mr. Knightley *shakes head*
I agree with the whole lifting the bar thing lol
I now have very high expectations...

 

[smittenkitten]

Forced to read Emma...made it about 3/4 of the way and just decided that the movement in the story was too subtle and slow for my liking. Her stories are interesting to WATCH in movies (though unaccurate as they are) but to read?!- I couldn't do it

 

[veanz]

lol i loved my 'Austen phase' - the one where you read one after the other in the course of 10 wks? hehe wish i could do it for the first time again.

But, does anyone else find, that while re-reading her novels, you find that you come across certain snippets you didnt pay much attention to before? i think thats the beauty of her work.

I didnt like Wickam from the start, he was too saucy in the bad sesne. Lol but Mr Collins...such a slimy character, i was attracted to his repulsiveness.

JA is so clever in her satire, however light it is.

I love Costume Dramas! There is one this wkn on the ABC - Byron - a romantic Engliah poet who is played by Johnny Lee Miller (who played the gorgeous Edmund in the adapted, Mansfield Park).

I cant help but fall in love with JA men.

 

[babyslug]

the bronte sisters were ok

 

[Lexicographer]

From what I have read the men of that century were better. Nothing beats the Russians.

 

[Sarah168]

pushkin, tolstoy...hmmm i guess...the one jane austen book i DIDNT like was "persuasion"...

 

[porkchopz]

yeh Mr. Darcy & Mr. Bingley!! =)

 

[*girl04*]

ive read emma and persuasuion and started sense n sensibility

 

[Lexicographer]

You forgot Dostoevsky!

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
You forgot Dostoevsky!

At least it isn't an omission worthy of Crime & Punishment.

I'd add Anton Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard, Uncle Vanya, Steppe, A Dreary Story etc and Nikolai Gogol (Best known for Dead Souls, a satire upon Russia prior to the 1861 emancipation of the Serfs..) to the list of '19th century Russian Authors'..

Haven't read any Austen as of yet.

 

[Lexicographer]

I liked C+P. Really, I did.

 

[Gregor Samsa]

Originally posted by Lexicographer
I liked C+P. Really, I did.

Wasn't criticising it. I thought it was v.good, even if I preferred The Brothers Karamazov.

 

[mic]

Mr Darcy is my man!

Colin Firth! *sighs*