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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6181200.stm

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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Okay, thanks a lot.

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.;)