[QuickTidal]

Macros, on 03 January 2025 - 07:09 PM, said:

surely you mean the only adaptation worth watching, the '95 series
no one of any kind of taste actually enjoyed the '05 fiasco

honestly, such peasants at times

So here’s the thing.

For accuracy, characters, and attention to regency and Austen detail, the 1995 miniseries is the ONLY one that matters, I agree. I agree so hard that I bought the high def bluray set for it so that I can watch and enjoy it anytime.

BUT

The 2005 film, though wildly anachronistic, completely miscast in some instances, with terrible scene choices and shot blocking…and score…has a near exquisite cinematography that looks often like oil paintings and is a sumptuous buffet of visual delight. And though Longbourn of the film looks NOTHING like what it should look like….something about it sings to me. And though most of the cast annoys me, both Donald Sutherland and Matthew Mcfaddyen excel at their roles.and Rosumund Pike sells Jane Bennet as the most gorgeous girl around more than Susannah Harker ever did.


So yes ‘95 is leaps and bounds better…but I can still find enjoyment in the 2005 film.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 04 January 2025 - 09:20 PM

[JPK]

Next up for classics I've found myself agreeing to a pair of buddy reads, so I'm doing to do something I don't plan on being the norm and doubling up.

On deck is Dickens' A TALE OF TWO CITIES and I'm scheduled to start Marcus Aurelius' MEDITATIONS on Monday.

I'm about 50 pages into ATOTC and have to say I'm absolutely loving it so far. I'm always partial to stories set around the French Revolution and the first couple chapters here are absolutely compelling. I do have to note that I'm finding a lot more humor here than I originally anticipated, but it does fit the duality of the novel as set in the opening paragraph. A particular gem from chapter 4:

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When Mr. Lorry had finished his breakfast, he went out for a stroll on the beach. The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich. The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea.

It's still pretty early to say, but I have the distinct impression already that I'm really going to like this book.

[Gabriele]

JPK, on 04 January 2025 - 03:43 AM, said:

My favorite character has to be Mr Bennett. I completely understand the desire to hide from everyone and seclude myself in my library.

I can totally relate to that feeling.

[Gabriele]

JPK, on 05 January 2025 - 03:05 AM, said:

Next up for classics I've found myself agreeing to a pair of buddy reads, so I'm doing to do something I don't plan on being the norm and doubling up.

On deck is Dickens' A TALE OF TWO CITIES and I'm scheduled to start Marcus Aurelius' MEDITATIONS on Monday.

I'm about 50 pages into ATOTC and have to say I'm absolutely loving it so far. I'm always partial to stories set around the French Revolution and the first couple chapters here are absolutely compelling. I do have to note that I'm finding a lot more humor here than I originally anticipated, but it does fit the duality of the novel as set in the opening paragraph. A particular gem from chapter 4:

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When Mr. Lorry had finished his breakfast, he went out for a stroll on the beach. The little narrow, crooked town of Dover hid itself away from the beach, and ran its head into the chalk cliffs, like a marine ostrich. The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction. It thundered at the town, and thundered at the cliffs, and brought the coast down, madly. The air among the houses was of so strong a piscatory flavour that one might have supposed sick fish went up to be dipped in it, as sick people went down to be dipped in the sea.

It's still pretty early to say, but I have the distinct impression already that I'm really going to like this book.

Maybe I'll give Dickens another shot. I burned out on him with Oliver Twist and David Copperfield both of which I didn't really like, and never read anything else by him. Going to follow your read-along.