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The a&e versions is actually one of my favorite movies. I got the dvd for my birthday....and I still can't stop watching it, but I do like the story the best. It's something about reading the words that interests me the most.
It's Elizabeth's sisters that just interest me the most...like Lydia.
But my favorite part from the story:
"After a short pause, her companion added, 'You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were lst April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged, but one word from you will silence me on this subject forever.'"

And I do like the sound of reading the little friend and the one.
 
i know i love elizabeths sisters!i thought it was hilarous how her two youngest sisters were always trying to get a man in uniform and werent interested in anyone but!LOL!

yah now i will have someone to discuss little friend with, i read a review about it in one of my issues of vogue i think either december but im not sure and i have always gone and seen it in the stores but have never bought it but now i will and start reading!!
 
I just read a summary of the little friend by Donna Tartt at amazon and it does sound quite interesting. I'm going to have to go find it!
And while I was searching, I came across The Lovely Bones. Did you or anyone else read it? I thought it was incredible. It's amazing how one first sentence can set the stage for the entire book.

And on the subject of p&p....praise for Jane and Bingley....but that Wickham...he makes me so mad!
 
my one friend read the lovely bones she was going to let me borrow it but i havent borrowed it yet! she says it was good but it wasnt one of her favorites, but most of my literary circle have read it as well and they all love it, so yeah lets add that one too!

another one that looks good by donna tartt(her only other book) is a secret history they both sound really good but the little friend seems more interesting!
 
The lovely bones was good, but once the big "secret" came out, it was only ok. I still liked the emotion throughout the book!

Have you ever read A tale of two cities? I'm assuming with your love of Dickens you have as well. We read it last year, and no one in my class liked it, except for me of course! I'd love to be able to talk about Charles Darnay and Lucie Manette!
 
errrm... i read The Lovely Bones and isn't wasn't that good. I think because everyone was raving about it so I expected it to be soooo good and then i read it and i'm like HUH? :blink:
 
btvaughn said:
The a&e versions is actually one of my favorite movies. I got the dvd for my birthday....and I still can't stop watching it, but I do like the story the best. It's something about reading the words that interests me the most.
It's Elizabeth's sisters that just interest me the most...like Lydia.
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Is the a&e series the one with Colin Firth? I'm in the middle of watching that right now and I love it. My favorite scene from the book is the one where they're all sitting around reding, and Miss Bingley makes Elizabeth get up and walk with her. Then she and Darcy get into a sort of disagreement and it's all so cute!
 
The lovely bones did have a lot of hype to it and that's probably brought down part of my opinion. But it didn't change the fact of how original and emotional the book turned out to be.

And yes, the a&e version is the one with colin firth....::sigh:: it was wonderful wasn't it. Did you ever read the book kate_jones?
 
talking about the a&e version just makes me think of the scene where colin firth jumps into the lake and, of course, that reminds me of bridget jones where she watches that part over and over again. :lol:

i love the part where elizabeth is playing the piano at the bingley's and darcy is just watching her all moony-eyed. :love:

but this is a book discussion, so... yeah... :blush: well, actually, the a&e version followed the book so precisely (well...except for the wet colin firth part.. :D) that it doesn't really matter. i think that's what made it so great.
 
I do love that it followed so closely! Another favorite part is where Darcy basically tells Elizabeth he's in love with her for the first time and acts all arrogant about it. She tells him off and we say "power to the women!" It's just in the way she responds that makes it sound so incredible.

And no one can leave out Mr. Collins....he just cracks me up so much! It's that quiet humor in the book that I love reading.
 
btvaughn said:
I do love that it followed so closely! Another favorite part is where Darcy basically tells Elizabeth he's in love with her for the first time and acts all arrogant about it. She tells him off and we say "power to the women!" It's just in the way she responds that makes it sound so incredible.
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yeah!! i loved that part!! jennifer ehle was such a great elizabeth. and colin firth was, of course, the perfect mr. darcy. i loved how he was later cast as mark darcy in bridget jones. :lol: (sorry, i can't seem to talk about p&p without talking about bridget jones :blush: )

mr. collins was kind of creepy. i couldn't believe that charlotte married him! eew. and i loved how elizabeth told off lady catherine. that was great. :D
 
omg i had to come somewhere i just finished prey by michael circhton (sp.) or the guy who wrote jurassic park. omg that was the most amazing novel i have read in a while. it was so suspensful and wow just wow i totally recommend it to anyone
 
I just finished reading a great book for like the millionth time (if I like a book, I will read it over and over)... Watership Down. Has anyone else read it? I think it's like the cutest story ever... I'm also a big fan of rabbits though. LoL I mean, I've read this book so many times, the cover fell off and the pages are getting ripped and stuff.
 
Watership Down was pretty interesting. I read it the summer before 8th grade for english class. It definitely was not one of my favorites, but I did like the way it was written. Still to this day, we can draw so many parallels to what happened in the story to the life we've seen or learned about. Like concentration camps and that one place where some of the rabbits lived. What was it called again? I just remember them getting bitten and put into different groups....sound familiar?
 
The place was called Efrafa... yeah, I noticed all the parallels too. Very interesting. I think it's crazy how the author made up all those rabbit words and stuff, but the book totally grew up me. I think I first read it in 7th or 8th grade.
 
The book was completely different from anything I had read with the rabbits battling....some major personification going on!

And as for p&p.....that Mr. Collins was crazy! Wanting to marry his cousin....then marrying the friend and always trying to please Lady Catherine (I loved those parts)!
 

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