Re: Highlander: Jane Austen

Jette  wrote:

> Blech - her books annoyed me at school.  Some of the movie adaptations
> have been enjoyable - but the one I liked best was the rather unusual
> Indian adaptation "Bride and Prejudice".

Can I tell you a secret? [looking around]  This is just between you,
me and the wall ... okay?  I majored in English lit in college and had
to read all sorts of stuff, and there was very little that didn't
annoy me. Some of it ... a lot of it ... I downright hated, including
books by those handwringing English women, so genteel, so mannered, so
BORING.  And then I grew up and read some of them again, and ... some
of them are still boring, but Jane Austen really grew on me. I think
we would have been great friends if we'd lived at the same time, in
the same place. I've heard of "Bride and Prejudice" but never seen
it ... I've watched a very little Bollywood stuff and it didn't really
grow on me, but I think it would be a great kick if I ever got into
it.
Jerri [****vering in KC]