I'm more or less just thrilled to be in good company.
Her. Her and Dickens. There are no such things as second chances, or thirds, but I keep handing them out, and EVERY TIME, murderous rage.
But this was also my opinion of The Time Traveler's Wife, The Kite Runner, and That Other Chuck Pahlahakjdfsjkddkjnik (sp) Book That Isn't Fight Club, Which Was Sorta Kinda Okay.
So. I frequently feel very, very alone.
I have such an Austen allergy I can't actually open my copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I've tried. I can't make myself do it. It sits there mocking me.
Twain and Bradbury PROVE that we're not poor scions of our native tongue.
She is yet another Very British Author whose work has no discernible point and makes me want to hit things. Also? Not romantic.
Or maybe there is love buried somewhere in the descriptions of how very plebian everyone but the plain but good-hearted and acerbic lead lady is. Maybe there is love. And I just can't find it. But I'm inclined to doubt.
When movies are an improvement, and are a vast improvement, chiefly because they are shorter? The source material is not good. Period.
(See: Dune. Longer is not better. If Dino De Laurentiis has that figured out before you do, you're screwed. Or Jane Austen.)
If the television versions are better than the movies? It is a work by Anne Rice.
It's a literary theory I am working on. That shall make me famous. (Right.)
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Her. Her and Dickens. There are no such things as second chances, or thirds, but I keep handing them out, and EVERY TIME, murderous rage.
But this was also my opinion of The Time Traveler's Wife, The Kite Runner, and That Other Chuck Pahlahakjdfsjkddkjnik (sp) Book That Isn't Fight Club, Which Was Sorta Kinda Okay.
So. I frequently feel very, very alone.
I have such an Austen allergy I can't actually open my copy of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I've tried. I can't make myself do it. It sits there mocking me.
Why yes, yes that is a herd of teal deer.
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She's better than Bronte! I've got to give her that.
Also: ICON. *sporfle.*
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(I must admit I can stand Pride & Prejudice. But my only other foray into Austen was a nightmare. She has nothing on Mark Twain!)
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Twain and Bradbury PROVE that we're not poor scions of our native tongue.
She is yet another Very British Author whose work has no discernible point and makes me want to hit things. Also? Not romantic.
Or maybe there is love buried somewhere in the descriptions of how very plebian everyone but the plain but good-hearted and acerbic lead lady is. Maybe there is love. And I just can't find it. But I'm inclined to doubt.
When movies are an improvement, and are a vast improvement, chiefly because they are shorter? The source material is not good. Period.
(See: Dune. Longer is not better. If Dino De Laurentiis has that figured out before you do, you're screwed. Or Jane Austen.)
If the television versions are better than the movies? It is a work by Anne Rice.
It's a literary theory I am working on. That shall make me famous. (Right.)
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