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Originally posted by dtb
JASNA types usually like the Emma Thompson adaptation the best of all the Jane Austen adaptations (you wouldn't believe the volume of commentary these adaptations produce among the JASNA set... well, then again, you might.)
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I had a roommate in college who discovered at the begining of his final semester that no one had previously mentioned to him that his English degree required at least one course in pre-20th century British lit. The only class fitting the requirement his last semester was "Austen and the Brontes." It was him and 23 women. Every class he would come home with a crazed look in his eyes, sort of half way between being glassy-eyed from boredom and completely furious. As he put it, each class was amazingly boring until the topic of how much men suck came up, and then he would be repeatedly berated until the end of the class. He noted once that the class's ratio would have made it a great place to hook up, if it hadn't been that each of the women in the class (including the prof) seemed to be waiting for Mr. Darcy to ride into the classroom on horseback to sweep he off he feet and take her away. I don't think they ever worked out how all 24 of them were going to fit on the back of a horse. This from a guy so sensitive he wrote (decent) love sonnets to his girlfriend on a regular basis. Austen is that evil.
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