Emma by Jane Austen

[meganbmoore]

I’ve been meaning to read Jane Austen for years, having seen and liked at least one adaptation of each of her completed novels, but somehow never got around to it until now. Of the adaptations I’ve seen, the version of Emma starring Kate Beckinsale and Olivia Williams is probably the one I’ve rewatched the most. I also saw the first episode of the

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[redbrunja]

P.S.: OMG Jane Austen almost caused a minor panic attack due to threatening my tagging system!

How so?

[meganbmoore]

19 1/2 hours awake : "OMG WHAT GENRE IS THIS DOES CLASSICS REALLY COUNT AS A GENRE OF FICTION??"

Hmm...I should ETA that in before passing out so I make sense...

[redbrunja]

Well, if anyone's curious they can just read the comments....

[kakkobean]

oh dear, what ever shall we do with that Jane Austen and her ruination of the tagging system? Always muddling with things that were perfectly sensible before, that Austen gel.

*sporfles*

[meganbmoore]

I'm quite certain that this wouldn't have been a problem were I not about to pass out!

[kakkobean]

Be still your beating heart! 'Tis but hardly even a wound upon your person, hardly even such, as a mere lack of consideration for your poor nerves. Oh, how Jane does tease our nerves so!

*still sporfling*

[sartorias]

Quite incidentally, the best Austen-pastiche I've ever seen is a retelling of Emma, called James Fairfax, in an alternate Regency where gay marriage is acceptable. It caused a hissy fit in Austen fan circles (who claim to be so tolerant) while they are perfectly okay with the Zombie mess, and that horrible Mr. Darcy, Vampire.

[meganbmoore]

I don't think I could ever touch Mr. Darcy, Vampire, unless I stumbled across it and it seemed a prime addition to Adventures In Awesomely Bad Books (which, come to think of it, hasn't had many additions lately...) but conceed to curiousity about the zombies. Though I really should read the book itself first.

And you say "James Fairfax" and my brain immediately ponders if the book would have been Emma/Jane if Jane were a James. (A complete gender switch for those two would have resulted in an Emma[unless she became an Emmett} and a Frances who were far too alike.) I'm kinda amused by the hissy fit, though, as I suspect Darcy/Bingley would be the slash pairing to end all slash pairings if P&P became a hit today.

[sartorias]

LOL! I think you are soooo right!

[sartorias]

PS the first ten pages of the zombie book are funny--you could read it standing at the shelves at the bookstore. The rest is the same joke stretched out ad infinitum, with increasing sloppiness.

[wordsofastory]

Hee. I'm glad you liked it!

And I approve of classics as a genre, even if it's one that can only be given quite a while after the book was written.

[meganbmoore]

I would have been very sad if I hadn't!

[meganbmoore]

I need to rewatch Clueless so I can compare!