I read "Pride and Prejudice" about 5 or 6 years ago because my ex-wife likes Austen so much and I wanted to be able to talk about it with her. I gotta say, it did nothing for me. I got through the second half, or maybe the last three quarters of the book on sheer will power. I think it's definitely a woman's read.
I saw the Sarah Connor commercials at the Super Bowl and I figured it tied into Terminator somehow.
Happy St. Valentine's Day!
Joe
My sitch More importantly, Light A Million Candles
A writer that I've recently gotten in to is Janet Evanovich.
REALLY SG!! I clicked on that again!!! whats up with that???? lol
what are her books like?
Most of them are about a female bounty hunter and her sidekick who is a former prostitute. Like I said, they're very fast reading and hysterical. The series has numbers in all the titles.
That's a great idea about starting an online writing group. I wonder if we could talk Bruce and Gabe into it as well? Matbe we can even let Jill critique since she's knows fine writing when she reads it!
I read "Pride and Prejudice" about 5 or 6 years ago because my ex-wife likes Austen so much and I wanted to be able to talk about it with her. I gotta say, it did nothing for me. I got through the second half, or maybe the last three quarters of the book on sheer will power. I think it's definitely a woman's read.
It's actually not my favorite Austen book, although it's the most famous. What I love about Jane Austen is her biting, jaundiced view of human nature. The way she describes some of her minor characters, especially, is just too funny to me. There's something Shakespearean about the way she nails certain personality types - such that movies made from her books can be just as relevant today - because people really don't change!
Try reading Emma and watching the movie Clueless - a 90's version with Alicia Silverstone as a valley girl. Or re-read Pride and Prejudice and rent Bride and Prejudice, a modern Bollywood version. (Where else but modern India could you find a matchmaking mother as pushy as the one in Pride and Prejudice?).
I agree, the romance plotlines of her books probably wouldn't appeal so much to guys; but that's just the surface structure on which she hangs her wickedly written commentaries on human nature.
Oh, and the Sarah Connor Chronicles takes up after the last Terminator movie. She and her now-teenage son have been living on the run. They think the future has been all fixed - until another borg (or whatever they call 'em)shows up in his high school classroom one day. Luckily, there's also a good female borg sent from the future to protect him - played by the girl from Serenity.
The rest is pretty much extended chase scenes, but it's the writing and dialogue that makes it good. (The TV mom does NOT have the same buff arms as the Linda Hamilton, though!).
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