[SuziQ]

I've tried several times to 'get into' Jane Austen's writing, but I just can't do it! I'd much prefer to see a screen adaptation of any of them. Emma Thompson won an Oscar for her screenplay of Sense and Sensibility, and I considered it truly deserved, after trying to actually read the book once. Same with Persuasion. I love the version with Amanda Root and Ciarian Hinds, but not the one that was done more recently, and shown on Masterpiece Theatre earlier this year.

[Overtaxed]

[RosieCotton]

I, on the other hand, love her books...so I’m pretty critical of the screen adaptations. But Pride and Prejudice is a masterpiece, IMO. It’s not the same as a two-hour movie, but I wouldn’t want it to be.

Heh...I think we pretty much watched it straight through when we got it, with brief food breaks. Brothers included. I guess we’re all a bunch of rather romantic and sentimental fools. ;-)