tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post2458040248378113528..comments2023-11-30T10:43:33.130-06:00Comments on Reading Freely: Sense and SensibilityStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15097908023032528200noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-45245075366564398902017-04-28T20:36:59.776-05:002017-04-28T20:36:59.776-05:00Good for you for rereading S&S and appreciatin...Good for you for rereading S&S and appreciating it this second time around. This happened to me w/ Persuasion. A friend of mine suggested I watch the movie first, then read it. Well, it took a second read after the movie, and then I loved it - the book. I agree w/ your friend, too.<br /><br />S&S has a wonderful moral. And this film version was well done. Ruth @ with freedom and bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15531827758868215023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-57076942404365580162017-04-28T19:24:52.631-05:002017-04-28T19:24:52.631-05:00Yes, that was the first version I saw. I enjoyed ...Yes, that was the first version I saw. I enjoyed it, though the newer 2008 version with Romola Garai has probably surpassed it (and no severe hairstyles there ;)).Marian Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14115916138435761469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-45903823010528541202017-04-26T19:14:36.688-05:002017-04-26T19:14:36.688-05:00Have you seen the film version of Emma that stars ...Have you seen the film version of Emma that stars Gwen Paltrow? Her hairstyle looked too severe for me I'd imagined Emma as a healthy-looking woman, and Paltrow was so pale!Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15097908023032528200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-36462743507735711452017-04-26T19:12:21.930-05:002017-04-26T19:12:21.930-05:00...I forgot about Mansfield Park. D'oh. Here I......I forgot about Mansfield Park. D'oh. Here I thought I was over the Austen hump, so to speak, and I'm only halfway into her canon..<br /><br />(Well, that's three more Read of Englands partly planned..:p)Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15097908023032528200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-719300673861964102017-04-26T15:23:36.509-05:002017-04-26T15:23:36.509-05:00I read/reviewed 'Persuasion' (my 2nd favou...I read/reviewed 'Persuasion' (my 2nd favouite Austen) back in April 2011. The two I have left are Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey. They are already loaded into a 10 classics pile ready to go - but won't be launched until some point next year now. CyberKittenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394155516712665665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-51418760090357148362017-04-25T21:27:53.524-05:002017-04-25T21:27:53.524-05:00I need to read this again; it's been too many ...I need to read this again; it's been too many years! <i>Emma</i> was my favorite Jane Austen book...in general, I prefer the film adaptations. The cast of the 1995 S&S is unbeatable. Marian Hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14115916138435761469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-67905472361535187202017-04-25T19:04:30.407-05:002017-04-25T19:04:30.407-05:00@Mudpuddle: Austen can be hard going. She requi...@Mudpuddle: Austen can be hard going. She requires more concentration than I usually give..<br /><br />@Brian Joseph: Some things mature with age -- Calvin and Hobbes, as funny as it was to me as a kid, is even funnier as an adult who gets the serious jokes Watterson wove in!<br /><br />@Fred: Do you think the experience of reading S&S along with other people helped open it up?<br /><br />@Cyberkitten:<br /><br />Are your two remaining "Persuasion" and "Northanger Abbey"? We may be at the same place, Jane-wise. Northanger Abbey is supposedly a parody of gothic novels, so I thought it might be appropriate for one October...Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15097908023032528200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-60374184424730201912017-04-25T15:11:56.980-05:002017-04-25T15:11:56.980-05:00This is actually my least favourite Austen so far ...This is actually my least favourite Austen so far (two more to go) by quite a long way. I had little sympathy with any of the characters who I thought had few redeeming features.<br /><br />I understand the movie book thing though. If you see the movie first you get a good (hopefully) overview of the plot and aids in visualising both the people and the backdrop. When you read the book you get to 'see' the internal life of the characters and a lot more of the background plus all of the subtle bits that the movie has to leave out. If you read the book first and then see the movie you are presented with characters who don't look like you imagined them and can't help thinking about any changes the director made and all the stuff they had to leave out to get things down to a reasonable time.CyberKittenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06394155516712665665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-64342828485008724022017-04-25T10:29:44.609-05:002017-04-25T10:29:44.609-05:00As I've mentioned elsewhere, I tried to read A...As I've mentioned elsewhere, I tried to read Austen for many years, but failed. In my early 40s I returned to grad school and was assigned S&S. I loved it and went on to read everything I could find by her. I also regularly reread her all-too-few output.<br /><br />I find also that viewing a film shortly after reading the book isn't fair to the film, as I all too often get hung up on comparing the two, usually to the film's detriment. Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10233846613173866140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-10001412254104643232017-04-25T10:28:11.823-05:002017-04-25T10:28:11.823-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Fredhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10233846613173866140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-58839345204256382362017-04-25T04:37:58.163-05:002017-04-25T04:37:58.163-05:00I read this last year. I loved it.
It is so inter...I read this last year. I loved it.<br /><br />It is so interesting that your reading experience was so different with just a year in between attempts. How one goes into a novel does make a big difference. I just reread Franz Kafka'a The Metamorphosis and I remember how I was disappointed when I read it in my teens as my expectations of it were different at the time. Brian Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15139559400312336791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-980951139270141970.post-9826505572525576492017-04-24T23:10:01.183-05:002017-04-24T23:10:01.183-05:00your friend might be right... i haven't read ...your friend might be right... i haven't read S&S, but going by your interesting post i think i'll give it a try.... i have to say my efforts at reading Jane haven't been successful in spite of several essays at her work... but i'm sure it's me and not her... tx for the synopsis...Mudpuddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17194891656971454279noreply@blogger.com