Lost in Austen

[embers_log]

I just wanted to post about how much I love Lost in Austen in fact I love all things concerning Jane Austen, which is normal female behavior and has inspired a game book here.   This popularity has convinced Great Britain to create a Jane Austen based economic structure, because why fight it?  I'm sure it will be more stable than the US economy!

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[ancientgirl]

Yeah, we like to put the cart before the horse a lot.

[embers_log]

we are headed for hell in a hand basket....
I guess it could be worse....

let's see if it gets worse!

[ancientgirl]

I think we've been there for a while, the only difference is everyone in the upper crust is just now feeling what the rest of us have felt for a long time, except now it's important because it's them.

[embers_log]

Oh believe me, I don't think it is important because it is them...
it is important because when more banks fail then pretty soon it will be impossible to use a credit card, seriously...
there are a lot of businesses across the country that will close because they don't have enough cash on hand to be able to buy products to sell....

Our unemployment is currently at 6%, but believe me it can get a LOT higher!
The good news is that unemployment insurance will help many of the people in the short term, but things can just keep getting much worse.

Frankly I don't care about the banking people, those guys could go broke (they won't, they have socked money away in off shore accounts), but I care a lot about all the ordinary people across the country who can't seem to see how serious this is going to be when it hits there home town.

[callmeserenity]

Ok, your link to the article freaked me out because of this bit: The irony is that original manuscript of Jane Austen’s ‘Emma’ was discovered in a Hampshire attic earlier this year, revealing the first draft of the classic comedy of manners to be packed with foul mouthed men and women, hell-bent on getting drunk, scoring drugs and having sex.
‘The publishers made her cut out all the racy stuff and so the whole charming English comedy of manners thing was never Austen’s intention,’ explained one archivist at the British library. ‘There’s a brilliant bit where Mr Knightley is out of his head on cider and crack, and he smashes Frank Churchill’s face into the stable door and Emma is so turned on she gives him a bj with Mr Churchill just lying there unconscious in a pool of blood. Basically all of Austen’s heroines just wanted instant sexual gratification with whoever they met. Except of course, Austen wrote ‘whomever’. That’s what we love about her.’I was sitting there thinking it can't be true, there's no way, how horrible and then I

[embers_log]

LOL
it is like the British equivalent of the Onion... It is very funny stuff...
you should read this article:
http://newsbiscuit.com/article/sarah-palin-proves-critics-wrong-by-naming-three-countries-373

[callmeserenity]

ha ha ha! That was hilarious. "Disneyland". *snort*

[liluv]

Heh, I read this article and found it very funny! Jane Austen and her work has inspired so many great/funny things, eh?

You think loving Jane Austen is typically female? I think there is no denying that period pieces appeal easier to women, but I wonder why that is. I don´t buy that it is something genetic- like we have a gene for sentimentality or pretty pictures.

Ah well, maybe that´s too serious a question. But I´d love to read more about you loving "Lost in Austen" since - as you know - so do I. I rewatched it twice already and it only gets better.

[embers_log]

Well, no, you are right: I don't think ALL of Jane Austen's fans are women, her writing is so beautiful and her stories are so well crafted, that she is always listed in among the top writers.
And I also don't believe that all women love Jane Austen, since IMO most women barely read anything.... I'm constantly amazed at how few people actually read books ... like ever.

BUT among my friends I would say that Jane Austen is pretty universally loved, and we all go to see the movies and look forward to new adaptations.... I am not sure if most of my friends fantasize about the books the way I do.... Does that make me weird? Because I didn't think it did. Of course I don't ever go around TELLING people my fantasies, but 'Lost in Austen' really suits me completely.

[callmeserenity]

I think those of us that DO read Austen can't help fantasizing about them ourselves. Who doesn't have a Darcy (or in my case Henry Tilney) fantasy? It's not just about the romance. Austen's characters were, for the most part, strong, intelligent and independent women (for their time) and we can relate to them and their struggles. And a lot of the themes are still relevant. Who hasn't had a "guy that got away" like in Persuasion and wished you could meet him again and fall back in love? Or met a guy and thought he was a jerk and then got to know him and realized he was actually quite nice? Or had some creepy guy hit on you (like Mr. Collins.)

Plus, her books are witty and beautiful and make you feel more intelligent when you read them and understand her sometimes very subtle humour.