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Kristie 4
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Posted: June 06 2014 at 1:17pm \| IP Logged

My dd read them when she was 11 and 12 (all of them I think) and loved them!

On a funny note: her game loving brother bought her Marrying Mr. Darcy, a role playing P and P card game for her birthday! It is hilarious

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Posted: June 07 2014 at 8:49am \| IP Logged

Oh, I've heard of that card game! I'll have to put it on my gift list for somebody, though possibly my oldest daughter has it? Can't remember!

I've just started rereading Persuasion, which is slower to get going than some other novels (Sir Walter reading his own entry in the register of nobility gets the job done in terms of telling you up front who's who and what's been happening, but it's not the most gripping of beginnings). But I'm reminded that maybe my all-time favorite film adaptation of an Austen novel is the film of Persuasion with Amanda Root as Anne and Ciaran Hinds as Captain Wentworth. It's just beautifully done, with nothing (that I recall) than any age couldn't watch. It's beautiful, funny, and sweet, and Amanda Root is amazing. You see her blossom from a plain, haggard spinster into quiet beauty as the movie progresses . . . which is what happens to Anne in Captain Wentworth's eyes.

Just thought I'd throw out that recommendation. Again, it's been a while since I watched it, but Persuasion as a novel doesn't have even hinted-at scenes of real scandal (foolish girls, and a ne'er-do-well relation who runs off in the end with a money-grubbing hanger-on of the Elliot family) but nobody seriously corrupt, unless you count Anne's sister Elizabeth, and she's just vain and selfish and silly. And as I recall, the movie is very, very clean. I'll have to watch it again to be sure, but that's my recollection.

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Posted: June 07 2014 at 8:56am \| IP Logged

I thoroughly disliked Persuasion in high school, but now I think it's one of the most hilarious novels ever written. Jane Austen lampoons pretty much every aspect of British social climbing.

My point...I didn't "get" that aspect of the novel until I knew more about British history and society, which did not happen until I was in college. Persuasion was definitely worth a re-read (and another!).

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Posted: June 07 2014 at 9:20am \| IP Logged

I love that one, too. I think the two leads were just perfect! I liked the newer one well enough, it was lovely to look at, but I think I preferred the characterizations in the older film. Because the film was more modest, I think that it came across as something more intimate, as just their "little story" which is what it is. It isn't an epic or anything.

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