Let's take inventory, shall we?

[ringsandcoffee]

Decide for yourself how obsessed/insane/[insert other adjecteive here] I am.
I own: all 6 Jane Austen novels
Pride and Prejudice 1995 and 2005
Sense and Sensibility 1995 and 2008 (yes, holbytla, I had to get the new one)
Emma 1996, with Gwyneth Paltrow
Mansfield Park 2007
Northanger Abbey 2007

Persuasion 2007 I'm kind of meh about, and I haven't read the book yet. My prediction is that I'll eventually read it.

Let's not forget my 3 versions of Jane Eyre, two of which are so bad that I would burn them if possible, and my multiple copies of Lord of the Rings, both books and movies.

Yes, I do own other books and movies. Just that the ones I really like, well, more is better.

Hmm, both the "nerdy" and "geeky" mood theme pics are of Mr. Collins. I cannot escape him!

Comments

Geeks too...

[jmp0114.livejournal.com]

My mother owns all of the above! We love to get together during vacation time or a three-day weekend, in our pajamas, and have Jane Austin marathons. We always start with the Collin Firth big Pride and Prejudice, then Sense and Sensibility (I didn’t know their was a 2008,) and then Emma. Then if we have it in us (and we usually do) we watch the 2005 Pride and Prejudice.

… good times. I always know I am on vacation when we do this.

Re: Geeks too...

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

S&S 2008 just aired on PBS last Sunday and the Sunday before, and was just released on dvd. It's more dramatic than the Emma Thompson version. My love for Jane Austen started in December '06, when the newer Pride and Prejudice was (strongly) recommended to me, and I fell in love with it immediately. I could totally do a Jane Austen marathon. Often I put on one of the movies for background noise.

[coffeesnob.livejournal.com]

I need to read Pride and Prejudice again. It's been so long. I love your taste in books.

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

I read P&P once, it being my first Austen novel and I was infatuated with the movie. I don't know if I'll read it again, but maybe someday. Prince Caspian is my next book.

I meant to reply to something you said a while back, about how unlikely/convenient it was that Jane Eyre happens to find her cousins. I'll give you that, but what really drew me in was when she was young. The way her aunt treated her like crap then wondered why she was such a "bad" just angered me. Too many psych classes in college will do that. I had similar feelings about how Fanny was treated in Mansfield Park, and how women were treated in general back then. I'm no feminist, but treating adopted relatives as second class or someone having little worth just because they are poor or not attractive. Argh. The other thing about Jane Eyre that got to me was the chapter where Rochester is trying to convince her to stay, and tells about how he fell in love with her but had to wait so long to tell her. It gives a little bit of reality and balance to the cousin thing. Oh, yeah, ew, cousins marrying. St. John was a jerk anyway.

[laurasia-mystik.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm going to have to conclude that once you find something you like (especially a movie/book) you can never just like it ... you must obsess ^_^

I also have to re-read P&P -- it's been years!! 0_0

[ringsandcoffee.livejournal.com]

Yes, obsess. I swear, I wasn't a fangirl till The X-Files, then not again till Lord of the Rings.

Strange enough, I want to reread S&S even though I didn't love it the first time around.