What 📔book are you reading right now?

[CirdanLinweilin]

Oh yes, she did. I've read everything I could find, including her juvenilia -- which can be very funny, BTW!

I'll have to snoop around and see if I can't dig it up. I'd be very interested! P&P is very well written.

Do you have any ideas where to start after P&P?

CL

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I'd say Sense and Sensibility, then Emma.

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

I'd say Sense and Sensibility, then Emma.

Okay, thank you!


CL

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

The first, BTW was the subject of an excellent film with Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, and others.

Emma was made into a film with Gwenyth Paltrow. Good, but perhaps not as good as S&S. I think I even prefer the "Clueless" version!

Then there's Northanger Abbey, which is a postumously published parody of the Gothic novels popular in Austen's day.

After that, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion. And that's the big six.

You can Google for her minor works. Have fun!

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

The first, BTW was the subject of an excellent film with Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, and others.

Emma was made into a film with Gwenyth Paltrow. Good, but perhaps not as good as S&S. I think I even prefer the "Clueless" version!

Then there's Northanger Abbey, which is a postumously published parody of the Gothic novels popular in Austen's day.

After that, Mansfield Park, and Persuasion. And that's the big six.

You can Google for her minor works. Have fun!

Yay! Thanks.


CL

 

[Starbrow]

A & E did an excellent mini series on Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

A & E did an excellent mini series on Pride and Prejudice starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle.

Ooooooh! I'll have to check that out! Thanks!

CL

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

1995. Shown on PBS in the States too.

It's the one that made Colin Firth famous.

And a year later came Bridget Jones, and her coup interviewing him (in the novel). When the movie version was made , I wondered how they would handle that, since Firth was already in the film, playing one of the romantic leads!

I saw the movie,but so long ago, I can't remember.

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

1995. Shown on PBS in the States too.

It's the one that made Colin Firth famous.

And a year later came Bridget Jones, and her coup interviewing him (in the novel). When the movie version was made , I wondered how they would handle that, since Firth was already in the film, playing one of the romantic leads!

I saw the movie,but so long ago, I can't remember.

Oh cool! Thanks for the information!

CL

(I've been wanting to get into Austen's works, so this really helps!)

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Sure. There are other adaptations too, but nothing beats the original novels.

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

Sure. There are other adaptations too, but nothing beats the original novels.

For sure! I have been adoring the novel as of late! Jane Austen's diction is remarkable!

CL

 

[Starbrow]

I love Jane Austen. Not quite as much as Tolkien, but she is a great writer.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I'm now reading H.P. Lovecraft. I never read him before and am really enjoying it. I can see where he was influenced a lot by Edgar Allen Poe but his descriptions and writing seem to go deeper and be more detailed.

 

[Ithilethiel]

I'm reading some US History books, A Devil of a Whipping The Battle of Cowpens, Miracle at Midway, and ofc some Tolkien, BoLT 1, UT and The Tolkien Reader.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

If you're interested in the AWI, I highly recommend this Pulitzer winner:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington's_Crossing_(book)

One of the best examples of original historical research I've ever read. Dispels many of the myths that have accumulated over the last two centuries.

This one performs a similar service for the Saratoga campaign:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1932714855/?tag=r-r-20

Though Luzader is not as felicitous a prose writer as Fischer; I sometimes found myself having to reread a sentence, in order to make sense of it. Still, worth the effort.

 

[Ithilethiel]

If you're interested in the AWI, I highly recommend this Pulitzer winner:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington's_Crossing_(book)

One of the best examples of original historical research I've ever read. Dispels many of the myths that have accumulated over the last two centuries.

This one performs a similar service for the Saratoga campaign:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1932714855/?tag=r-r-20

Though Luzader is not as felicitous a prose writer as Fischer; I sometimes found myself having to reread a sentence, in order to make sense of it. Still, worth the effort.

Thx but I've already read them. I'm considered an amateur American Revolutionary War and Alexander Hamilton university level scholar.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

I kind of suspected as much!

 

[Ithilethiel]

Oh cool! Thanks for the information!

CL

(I've been wanting to get into Austen's works, so this really helps!)

If you find yourself loving Austen (who doesn't) Google, Jane Austen Juvenila. There is quite a bit of her early work available on-line and in book format. Some, like JRRT, is fragmentary but she was a prolific writer from a young age. Enjoy! She is amazing.

 

[CirdanLinweilin]

If you find yourself loving Austen (who doesn't) Google, Jane Austen Juvenila. There is quite a bit of her early work available on-line and in book format. Some, like JRRT, is fragmentary but she was a prolific writer from a young age. Enjoy! She is amazing.

Thank you for the info! I recently finished P&P and was grinning like an idiot and laughing like one at the end. It was very enjoyable! On to Sense and Sensibility!



I am reading Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour right now, very enjoyable!

CL

 

[Ithilethiel]

Hey CL I've missed you! So glad you're discovering and loving Jane Austen. Her works are so brilliant. Her words ring so true even now. I love her. Next to JRRT and Charles Dickens she's my favorite British author. You're gonna love S&S and Emma. Don't forget Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park and Persausion. If you love her to the extreme and live in NA I recommend you join, JASNA, the Jane Austen Society of North America.