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Yeah, agreed on the wet shirt scene. It makes me feel slightly better that they apparently didn't really intend it as eye candy. I read that it was sort of accidental.On the other hand, I sort of like...
View ArticleA Fair Prospect. Multiples?
Was about to download A Fair Prospect for Kindle and there seem to be multiple incarnations? Can someone unmurky the waters? I don't want to purchase 4 versions of virtually-the-same.... Help...
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Good point! Trying to please all P&P fans is certainly not a task I'd want to take on. Though, to be fair, to be a commercial success it doesn't have to please everybody, just intrigue them enough...
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I'll second that. Especially that most recent PBS version where Fanny was an outgoing tomboy, essentially the opposite of Fanny. If somebody could actually capture her gentleness, her shyness, and her...
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I so much agree! There are three Mansfield Park movies that I'm aware of. The old BBC series is the most true to the story line, but I really don't like the actress they picked to play Fanny. She...
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Those are the 3 adaptations I've seen and I feel much the same way as you do about them Suzanne - the old BBC one is faithful but has no life to it, the movie with the weird morphing of Fanny into a...
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Quote Fanny somehow morphing into a hyperactive labrador puppy and Edmund turning into a whiney emo boy with Justin Bieber hair.Ha! Exactly.
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It was published in 3 volumes, so there's 1,2, and 3, but as to why a 4th... Perhaps you can buy them all together, too?
View ArticlePP2 and PP3 casting etc
I know I am in the minority with this view, but I was unimpressed with Colin Firth's performance in PP 2. My impression was that he never read the book. I thought his performance was devoid of any...
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I think the old MP1 is quite ok although it could be improved of course, I don't mind its Fanny, I have more problem with its Edmund who looked older than his elder brother Tom.The low-budget MP3...
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Jess,Re your comments> Those are the 3 adaptations I've seen and I feel> much the same way as you do about them Suzanne -> the old BBC one is faithful but has no life to it . . .That's true...
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Lisa,Re your comments below:> I know I am in the minority with this view, but I> was unimpressed with Colin Firth's performance in> PP 2. My impression was that he never read the> book. I...
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Hiya Jim,RE the old BBC adaptation, the pacing doesn't bother me so much - I actually quite enjoyed the Emma adaptation from that era... the others not so much, not as adaptations, I certainly found...
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I have a number of MP fics I've been working on for years. It's hard to complete them, though.
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Jessical Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> For all her> unassuming nature, Fanny has a very strong moral> compass, and stands firm when it really matters.>...
View ArticleKindle Love Stories - Writing Challenge
Kindle Love Stories - Writing ChallengeI happened upon this on Facebook. Since the murder victim in the short story is wearing a Regency Dress due to a Jane Austen Event, I thought there might be...
View Articleget the boxed set
A Fair Prospect: Volume I, II & III [Kindle Edition] is actually cheaper to buy all 3 volumes in one "boxed set" rather than each ebook separately.
View ArticleFanny, Anne, Gaskell's Molly
Jessical Wrote:------------------------------------------------------->> I agree that Anne is a much more confident in> herself than Fanny (as well as being clever and> elegant and one...
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There is something so funny to me about calling a trio of ebooks a boxed set. There is no box...
View ArticleBlind Luck by Gabby and Nicole
Hello!I have recently found this series, "Determined to Love", which consists of four stories, all archived here at DWG. They were written between 1999 and 2001 by Gabby and Nicole. All of them seems...
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