Re: Highlander: Jane Austen

Jerri wrote:
>  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.  

I didn't actually *do* college, in that way.  Straight out of school, 
age 16 and into the bank to work.  (I did have 9 "O" levels and 4 
Higher Grades, which would have been quite sufficient to get me into 
any University I wanted - if Mum could have afforded to let me go0


>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 had several goes at trying to reread stuff that I hated at school 
- and I still hate it, but sometimes I can cope with the movie versions.

>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.
> 

Bollywood can be a lot of fun, especially the better quality ones 
aimed at the more sophisticated UK market.


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Jette Goldie
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