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I actually like Billie in that picture, despite the fact her hair should be up instead of down. With her is Blake Ritson who is Edmund Bertram to her Fanny. *studies photo* He's not too bad looking, I guess I was excepting him to have a lighter hair color since Henry Crawford is suppose to be black and plain. Both leads shall hopefully grow on me. *sigh*
I actually like Billie in that picture, despite the fact her hair should be up instead of down. With her is Blake Ritson who is Edmund Bertram to her Fanny. *studies photo* He's not too bad looking, I guess I was excepting him to have a lighter hair color since Henry Crawford is suppose to be black and plain. Both leads shall hopefully grow on me. *sigh*
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Date: 2006-11-27 10:28 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2006-11-27 10:33 pm (UTC)I haven't read Mansfield Park, so I can't really make any judgements if she's good for the character. No doubt I'll read it around the time this airs, though ;)
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Date: 2006-11-29 04:06 am (UTC)Your icon is very pretty.:)
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Date: 2006-11-29 04:06 pm (UTC)The BBC adaptation doesn't come out until next NOVEMBER?? I thought it was gonna air this Christmas! o__0
Aw, thank you ^___^ I'm gonna miss those two together so much. *single emo tear*
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Date: 2006-11-29 05:44 pm (UTC)The book is very good so far. (Of Jane's novels I believe this is one where either readers really like it or really dislike it.) It is not as fast a read, for me at least, as P&P or S&S. Fanny is starting to become my favorite Austen heroine, and Edmund is a dear (an insensitive one at times); and I loath Henry Crawford and his sister Mary (who is much like Lizzie Bennet).
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Date: 2006-11-29 06:13 pm (UTC)I'll make a point of reading this. I have to confess, I'm not a great reader of Jane Austen. I've only read Pride and Prej and a bit of Emma. *hides* XD
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Date: 2006-11-30 07:41 pm (UTC)Don't worry, I won't throw things at you or anything. Mansfield Park is only my forth Jane Austen book, and I would not call myself a huge fan compared to others. And I'll let you in on a little secret: I saw the BBC version (back from the 1980s) and now am reading it. This is the first time I've broken my rule of "read the book then see the movie." *smiles sheepishly*
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Date: 2006-12-01 12:41 am (UTC)I'd say that's pretty impressive! I try and read the books first, but it rarely happens. I read P&P and watched it (BBC version) simultaneously XD - as for the Lord of the Rings, I watched the first two movies before I read the books. I read RotK before I saw it, though. But I must confess, I doubt I would have even thought of reading them if it hadn't been for the films =O I'd only vaguely heard of it at all! *smacks self* But yes, I'd say it's better to read first. Hehe.
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Date: 2006-12-01 02:49 am (UTC)Two years ago a friend of mine at camp recommended the popular BBC P&P to me. I had just happened to have got a copy of the book at a library sale before camp. So I read it while there and then borrowed the miniseries when I got home...and fell in love with it.
As for LotR...how did that work? Hmm...I was given the book FotR the Christmas it came out in the movies and read it. I didn't have an interest in the movies until I saw TTT trailer and begged my dad for us to see it; he suggested we see FotR first so we rented it. I also got my hands on TTT book and read it before seeing the movie. And the same happened with RotK.
So yeah, I've always preferred to read the book before seeing the movie; the one disadvantage to that is that I can sometimes have a hard time enjoying an adaptation as a movie for its own sake, and just see it as a version (some less faithful than others) of the book. And depending how good it is, I can really like it or not. For example I adore Emma Thompson's S&S even though there are certain changes -- characters' ages changed, some characters cut out, scenes taken out or added -- but I thought it was very faithful to the spirit of the book and the cast was wonderful; while on the other hand the recent P&P I dislike more than I like it (the saving graces of it is Bingley/Jane, the music, and cinematography).
Obviously I'm passionate when my favorite books are made into movies.;)