Emo Hair, Waltzing, and Austen. Oh My.

[pinksonia]

    I enjoyed Mansfield Park which was last night's Masterpiece classic.  It's one of the Jane Austen's I've never read.  Well actually I've only read two (P&P and Northanger Abbey) so it's not difficult to be one I've never read.  One of my great secrets is that I don't like the way Jane Austen writes.  The plots I love, but the actual sentence structure and word choices I find yawn-inducing.   That's why Northanger Abbey is my favorite. I find the writing style fundamentally different from, and in my taste superior to, the other novels. 

   Anyway, some thoughts on this production: What was up with Edmund's emo hair? Very off putting.  Also, the waltz at the end.  I was under the impression that the waltz was only just starting to come into fashion in mainland Europe during the regency era and would have still been horribly scandalizing in England, what with the excessive amounts of touching and pressing of bodies against each other.  

Comments

[polyksena.livejournal.com]

Seeing as how i generally found the writing stile of the others to be the same "yawn inducing". . . maybe i should try NA out. I'm trying to expand, i really am.

[pinksonia.livejournal.com]

It's worth a try. And, you can always stop after the first couple of chapters, which is how far I've ever gotten into Emma and S&S.