Comments | jamie15: Uni and Jane Austen

jamie15

Uni and Jane Austen

Nov 05, 2011 23:29

Despite it being Saturday I had to go to uni today to suffer through three torturous hours of listening to one of the most misanthropic professors I have ever had ... I think ... well, there might've been one in grammar school who was even worse, but my current professor comes in as a close second. The first time he walked in through the door I ( Read more... )

jane austen, uni, persuasion

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magog_83 November 5 2011, 22:34:18 UTC

I'm so glad you liked Persuasion! It's my favourite Jane Austen :)

Your professor sounds hopeless, I hate academics like that who just pull their students to pieces like they're revelling in their own superiority :/

jamie15 November 5 2011, 22:43:25 UTC

I think Persuasion definitely ranges among the top 3 for me ... but I think Mr. Knightley will always own my heart, when it comes to Jane Austen's books :) (at least the one's I've read so far!)!

He definitely is like that :/ I was actually arguing with him today, because I dared to give him an answer to his question and he was trying to convince me I was wrong - which I knew I was not. But I've got to grant him, he did apologise for that.

On the other hand though, I felt quite offended when he thought I didn't know what a noun or a verb was ...

magog_83 November 5 2011, 22:46:41 UTC

I think it's not even Captain Wentworth as such that owns by heart but Anne herself <3 I feel like I know her and relate to her so well!

::selects appropriate icon::

jamie15 November 5 2011, 22:56:37 UTC

What a lovely icon :)!

That's true! She really is like a real person, with all her admirable good qualities but also flaws.

I'm so glad that in the end she came to the conclusion that she wasn't to blame for the breakup of her relationship with Captain Wentworth when she was young - because at that age I think it is only too understandable that she'd listen to the advice of the person who comes closest to her mother!

Mr. Elliot was a terrible, terrible guy though :(! And to think that when he first appeared I thought that he could become a serious rival of Captain Wentworth ... pfff ...

Is there a BBC adaptation of the novel? I'd love to watch it now that I've read the book :)

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bluebarnacles November 5 2011, 23:20:08 UTC

Ach man, professors like that totally suck. :C In the end we completely unnerved ours by giving her the silent treatment and she totally shut up during class discussion. XD What are you studying?

I felt really bad at university because I'd only read Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility (English Literature major) as I wasn't a great Austen fan. ._. But I now have copies of her other books to read on my Kindle, once I get my to-read bookcase out of the way. XD

jamie15 November 5 2011, 23:29:33 UTC

That sounds like a good technique! :)

Phew, I sometimes get the feeling I'm studying to much! I'm trying to get a teaching degree for English and German and a bachelor degree for Chinese :) Unfortunately there's no way for me to get a teaching degree for Chinese at the moment ... but that's my ultimate goal too!

Hey, two books is already quite good! Just today my best friend and I were discussing that there are not that many authors of which we've actually read more than one or two books :) - so that's perfectly acceptable :D!

I think my own to-read bookcase might be close to collapse ... :)

bluebarnacles November 5 2011, 23:42:27 UTC

Oh wow! That's awesome :D Chinese would be an amazing language to learn, both for the language itself and for their emerging status in the global community. :O

I've nearly read all of Agatha Christie and Stephen King, I'm proud to say. XD And I'm currently filling the gaps in my Discworld collection, but I've started reading a biography of Hergé so SIDETRACKED AGAIN DX

jamie15 November 5 2011, 23:46:42 UTC

WAIT, WAIT - there's a BIOGRAPHY of Hergé? Of couuuuurse! But how do I not know this??? :D *needstoread*

And kudos for reading nearly all of Agatha Christie and Stephen King! That really is quite an achievement :D! (Plus, on a side note: you're a discworld fan, too? You get awesomer and awesomer by the second :D!)

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xthursdaynextx November 5 2011, 23:42:12 UTC

I love love love Persuasion! It's probably my favourite Austen, although Pride and Prejudice comes close. I think Anne is the heroine I feel I can identify most with.

jamie15 November 5 2011, 23:56:50 UTC

Anne really is an awesome heroine <3 For me she's the better version of Fanny, in a way: still kind and caring, but also able to stand up for herself in her own way. She's the person I would like to be, I think :)