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jengiftw

book, books, and more books!

Apr 29, 2008 08:35

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mja700 April 29 2008, 16:56:56 UTC

Must read....
Moby Dick (cause it's genius)
Great Expectations (Cause it's so satisfying, plus you were asking about writing about love)

These two I think you will LOVE:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mansfield Park (more love here too, plus he teaches her to ride horses and we all know what that means) ;)

jengiftw April 30 2008, 01:54:48 UTC

Tried GE... didn't like it, but that may have changed (we're talking freshman year of high school)

Isn't MP also the Fannie book? Apparently, she is the Austen heroine I am most like, so I should check her out.

kathleenfoucart April 29 2008, 21:40:11 UTC

Northanger Abbey is possibly my fave Austen. Just b/c it is so darn amusing. :)

(And I agree w/ mja700, you should read Mansfield Park. If only for an Edmund (who is not an Edward, but there you go) ;-)

jengiftw April 30 2008, 01:56:37 UTC

Yeah, I was enjoying the little Austen tidbits in NM. I will say that I tend to prefer Bronte over Austen (was *so* proud Meyer pushed Wuthering Heights!!!), but I haven't retried Austen since early college.

kathleenfoucart April 30 2008, 02:07:52 UTC

I haven't read any Brontes, couldn't get into it (Wuthering) the last time I gave it a try, though I really want to read it b/c I've heard great things. I'll have to give it another shot.

I took an Austen class senior year at VT (*cough*instead of Shakespeare*cough*), so I've read (most of) a biography, a lot of juvenilia, plus all 6 novels. Love Austen. :)

jengiftw April 30 2008, 02:12:34 UTC

It is very good and very dark, but also kind of hard with the Cathy versus Catherine and young Heathcliff versus old versus etc.

Funny about your senior class: I took an advanced Shakespeare instead of anything I was prepared for (because of friends in the class and a professor who adored me as one of the first members of her Honors Program).