Page 6 of 6 FirstFirst 123456
Results 76 to 87 of 87

Thread: Jane Austen Book Club - Book number 1, Persuasion.

  1. 08-15-2009, 05:06 AM #76
    Mathor
    Mathor is offline
    Hitchcock Enthusiast Mathor's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2009
    Location
    USA
    Posts
    1,635
    Send a message via MSN to Mathor
    Yeah, that's kind of the great thing of it in my mind. How Anne kind of blossoms near the end. It's a genius character study by Austen.

    One of my favorite moments in the book is when she is reunited with Lady Russell in the middle, and she finds Lady Russell almost intolerable, and the things she has to say of the littlest importance, whereas Lady Russell had always been here truest friend. I think Lady Russell was the only person who acknowledged Anne, but once Anne began to see what real people were like, she started to realize that Lady Russell really just talked about herself, and wasn't really genuinely all that caring. She saw that most of her life had kind of been a lie, in a way. Because she had found happiness outside of the place and the people that had occupied her entire life up until that point. It's pretty deep stuff, honestly. Things like that got me thinking a good deal.
    I'm losing all those stupid games
    That I swore I'd never play
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  2. 08-15-2009, 05:22 PM #77
    Niamh
    Niamh is offline
    Ditsy Pixie Niamh's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    Marino, Dublin, Ireland
    Posts
    14,243
    Blog Entries
    118
    He's in love with her nature and who she is, not what she looks like.
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats
    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

    my poems-please comment Forum Rules
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  3. 09-07-2009, 10:24 AM #78
    kiki1982
    kiki1982 is offline
    Registered User kiki1982's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Location
    Saarburg, Germany
    Posts
    3,105
    Well, nothing much happened when I was away as it seems.

    Is anyone willing to discuss some more on this lovely book?
    One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.

    "Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  4. 09-07-2009, 10:34 AM #79
    optimisticnad
    optimisticnad is offline
    who me?? optimisticnad's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    Mars, next to King A-mess
    Posts
    1,569
    Blog Entries
    39
    *dances around*

    How bizarre. I started reading Persuasion again last week and the first thread to come up when I click 'new posts' this thread...sigh, it's a sign, wentworth and I are meant to be together.
    We can never know what to want, because living only one life we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in our lives to come'
    Milan Kundera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Parce que c'est toi, parce que c'est moi
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  5. 09-07-2009, 10:38 AM #80
    kiki1982
    kiki1982 is offline
    Registered User kiki1982's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Location
    Saarburg, Germany
    Posts
    3,105
    Quote Originally Posted by optimisticnad View Post
    *dances around*

    How bizarre. I started reading Persuasion again last week and the first thread to come up when I click 'new posts' this thread...sigh, it's a sign, wentworth and I are meant to be together.


    Yes, sigh.

    Imagine though, the amount of catfights he would induce if he were a real man or would turn up in a kind of Kate and Leopold-way... That would be great...
    One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.

    "Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  6. 09-07-2009, 12:01 PM #81
    Niamh
    Niamh is offline
    Ditsy Pixie Niamh's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    Marino, Dublin, Ireland
    Posts
    14,243
    Blog Entries
    118
    hahaha!
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats
    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

    my poems-please comment Forum Rules
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  7. 09-07-2009, 12:12 PM #82
    wessexgirl
    wessexgirl is offline
    Registered User
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Posts
    733
    Quote Originally Posted by optimisticnad View Post
    *dances around*

    How bizarre. I started reading Persuasion again last week and the first thread to come up when I click 'new posts' this thread...sigh, it's a sign, wentworth and I are meant to be together.
    Back off, he's mine .......!

    Oh, okay, I'll give way so long as I get Darcy and his enormous....estate .
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  8. 09-07-2009, 01:59 PM #83
    kiki1982
    kiki1982 is offline
    Registered User kiki1982's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jun 2007
    Location
    Saarburg, Germany
    Posts
    3,105


    Back off! How dare you! You can clearly see he prefers me. Anyway, I look better in such dresses than you!


    Frederick Wentworth (looks scared and a little puzzled at the amount of people arguing):

    Ladies, Ladies, please be reassured of my sympathy with you all, but do remember we are living in a society which requires manners foremost. I would be honoured to spend some time with you all but it is absolutely necessary that we understand that one man's life is too short for spending time with half the world. What do you think, Darcy?

    Darcy (looks a little surprised):

    That life is very long when one is married.
    One has to laugh before being happy, because otherwise one risks to die before having laughed.

    "Je crains [...] que l'âme ne se vide à ces passe-temps vains, et que le fin du fin ne soit la fin des fins." (Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac, Acte III, Scène VII)
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  9. 09-07-2009, 03:56 PM #84
    Niamh
    Niamh is offline
    Ditsy Pixie Niamh's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    Marino, Dublin, Ireland
    Posts
    14,243
    Blog Entries
    118
    "Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
    W.B.Yeats
    "If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
    Artemins Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer

    my poems-please comment Forum Rules
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  10. 09-15-2009, 08:07 AM #85
    prendrelemick
    prendrelemick is offline
    Registered User prendrelemick's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    Yorkshire
    Posts
    4,871
    Blog Entries
    29
    Quote Originally Posted by Niamh View Post
    He's in love with her nature and who she is, not what she looks like.

    I know at the end of the book he claims to have only ever loved Anne, but I reckon when the gentleman at Lyme did a double-take as she walked past, his interest was peaked. There's nothing like a rival to spur a lover on.
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  11. 09-28-2009, 08:21 PM #86
    Zee.
    Zee. is offline
    Registered User Zee.'s Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Melbourne
    Posts
    1,548
    Blog Entries
    1
    Send a message via MSN to Zee.
    sense and sensibility has started

    http://www.online-literature.com/for...136#post783136
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
  12. 01-03-2010, 12:24 PM #87
    Cultivated
    Cultivated is offline
    Cultivated Cultivated's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2010
    Location
    UK
    Posts
    14
    I've only joined today, besides that I've already read all of those Jane Austen books mentioned. Is that cheating?
    Reply With Quote Reply With Quote
Page 6 of 6 FirstFirst 123456
« Previous Thread | Next Thread »

Similar Threads

  1. What 2 Jane Austen book characters do you most relate to ?
    By BDuncan in forum Austen, Jane
    Replies: 18
    Last Post: 10-03-2010, 07:52 AM
  2. Jane Austen Essay
    By shortysweetp in forum Austen, Jane
    Replies: 7
    Last Post: 07-26-2010, 11:38 AM
  3. Are we reading the same text?
    By Peripatetics in forum Jane Eyre
    Replies: 35
    Last Post: 02-07-2009, 09:36 AM
  4. Albert Goldbarth: "Library" part 1
    By amuse in forum Poems, Poets, and Poetry
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 03-05-2004, 07:28 PM
  5. Albert Goldbarth: "Library" part 2
    By amuse in forum Poems, Poets, and Poetry
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 03-05-2004, 07:27 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  

Forum Rules