Finished Pride & Prejudice today (I highly recommend the A&E version with Ehle & Firth as basically identical to the book...a few additions and a few subtractions but nothing major).
I have a ton of blog post ideas that I haven't gotten to but will eventually. The one I really wanted to do was cut off at the pass by Austen herself. I was thinking through P&P down the road when lo and behold, Austen wraps up the book that way.
So...a little intermission. First, because I need some time to catch up on ideas I already have. Second, because my schedule (read - free time) takes a big hit in the next few weeks and I don't want to stop in the middle of Emma or Northanger Abby (whichever one I was going with next). Third, because I just watched Tim Burton's/Jack Sparrow's...I mean Edward Scissorhands'...I mean Tommy Hanson's...you know...Johnny Depp's version of Alice in Wonderland.
Since I've never read Lewis Carroll's...I mean Charles Dodgson's...I mean the creepy 1800's photographer/clergyman who might not be creepy after all (look it up if you're interested)...I mean, well, whatever, I'll stop now...
Anyway, it's time for an intermission so I'm going to read Alice in Wonderland to see how the Burton/Depp/Disney team did on this one.
Not sure if I'll post anything about it but I'll hopefully post some Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice stuff in the mean time.
Questions for you...
what Alice in Wonderland version do you like best and which character do you most identify with?
what books have you never read that you hope to/will/should read in the future?
(and while you're thinking about it...what's stopping you from doing that now...)
Saturday, June 5, 2010
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I would like to finish Les Miserables, which is one of my favorite books that, you know, I never actually finished. But I was like, 700 pages the last time I tried to tackle it. Why didn't I finish it? Because it is 1200 pages, and written by a french dude.
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love Les Mis...it helped make Classic French Lit arguably my favorite genre...Count of Monte Cristo, Les Mis, there are a couple of others...only knock I have is a little too much Napoleaonic history which helps but adds about 500 pages
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