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It is a truth universally acknowledged... Rebekah Send a noteboard - 02/07/2013 09:04:07 PM

View original post1) Which is your favourite Austen novel? Why?

Persuasion. It's a more believable love story, it's tenderly and beautifully written, and I love Captain Wentworth.
View original post2) Least favourite? Why? Or just rank the lot of them if you feel like it.

Mansfield Park. It's mostly boring, and Fanny Price is not as sparkling as Austen's other heroines.
View original post3) What do you think of the immense amount of attention Austen and her novels get? Entirely deserved, wildly overrated, somewhere inbetween?

Very much deserved. Her novels have very keen observation of people's character and behaviour.
View original post4) Favourite character? Least favourite?

Henry Tilney is lovely. Least would be Mary Bennett.
View original post5) Favourite TV or movie adaptation, besides the obvious answer (just to keep things interesting)?

I love the ITV adaptation of Emma, with Kate Beckinsale and Mark Strong. And Persuasion with Ciaran Hinds and Amanda Root.
View original post6) What do you make of the recent craze involving the adaptation of Austen novels with various kinds of monsters added?

I liked P&P & Zombies. But the others just take it too far. Not a big fan of bandwagon jumping.
View original post7) What do you think explains the enduring popularity of these works, when so many other 19th and 20th century writers (to say nothing of older ones) have been almost completely forgotten?

Their wit and their warmth and their romance.
View original post8) Do you think of Austen as a conservative and/or a prude, or do you feel that by the standards of her time she could be considered progressive? Why (not)?

Neither, I think she's somewhere in the middle.
View original post9) Any other observations you'd care to make on this or any however tangentially related topic?

If I were less tired then perhaps.
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/Survey: Jane Austen Legolas - 02/07/2013 08:51:08 PM 1296 Views
It is a truth universally acknowledged... Rebekah - 02/07/2013 09:04:07 PM 748 Views
Re: It is a truth universally acknowledged... Legolas - 02/07/2013 10:05:14 PM 921 Views
Strangely enough, I'm that person who has never read Austen. Nate - 02/07/2013 09:16:23 PM 740 Views
Then I guess the question becomes which one to recommend to you, eh? Legolas - 02/07/2013 09:43:02 PM 813 Views
I haven't read Austen, either. *NM* Palatine - 03/07/2013 03:32:49 PM 378 Views
I'm male, too. *NM* jh - 04/07/2013 11:57:14 AM 314 Views
Guess I'll answer myself as well. Legolas - 02/07/2013 10:31:08 PM 993 Views
I'm another of those non-Austen readers Stephen - 03/07/2013 05:12:53 PM 704 Views
I read them something like 17-20 years ago Larry - 03/07/2013 07:09:20 PM 1158 Views
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