Jane Austen Lovers UNITE!

[Watson]

C'mon, I know you're out there

I really like Jane Austen. I got into her through watching the BBC Pride and Prejudice, and have since read P&P as well as Sense and Sensebility. I've also seen pretty much every film interpretation of her work. My favourite will always be the BBC Pride and Prejudice, though I do really enjoy the recent one that came out directed by Joe Wright with Kiera Knightley as Elizabeth (the guy who played Darcy in that was smoking hot ). I have also been watching the new mini-series Lost in Austen, which airs on ITV in England, and on the W network in Canada. It's about a 20-something girl living in London who finds a doorway in her house that leads to the Bennett's house in Georgian England. She ends up screwing up a lot of the character's lives. It's been fairly entertaining.

I think next I'm going to read Emma. For those who want to give her a try, here is her wiki page with a list of all her works: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_austen.

 

[ComicChick]

Sadly I didn't appreciate Austen like I should have in school. In AP English Senior Year, I only got partly through Pride and Prejudice, although I'd love to go back and reread it sometime in the future.

The movie adaptation with Keira Knightly and McFadyen (can't remember his name exactly) was very good and i've seen it multiple times.

I'm finding out now that I kinda wish I would've actually read some of the classic books we were covering in class.

 

[Watson]

Sadly I didn't appreciate Austen like I should have in school. In AP English Senior Year, I only got partly through Pride and Prejudice, although I'd love to go back and reread it sometime in the future.

The movie adaptation with Keira Knightly and McFadyen (can't remember his name exactly) was very good and i've seen it multiple times.

I'm finding out now that I kinda wish I would've actually read some of the classic books we were covering in class.

I've experienced the same thing post-high school. But at the same time I much prefer reading books at my own pace and not having to worry about having to highlight the important parts for the essay I'll have to write on it. So in that sense I'm glad I've come back to some classics.