wordinista: (Darcy)
That there are not words strong enough to convey my complete, boundless, and utter dislike of the most recent Pride and Prejudice movie.  I think it is quite fair to say that I hated it with the passion of a thousand burning suns, and have never spent so much time yelling at the television screen.

In sum, I say this:  There is only one Darcy, and Colin Firth is his name.  Forever and ever, amen.

I now wonder why all those Austenites wasted their breath kvetching about the costumes.  The story, the characterizations... there were a lot more bitchworthy complaints than costuming.

I am awash with WTF. 

That is all.
wordinista: (Hatori Idiot - creds to linachu)
*flops over* 

Well, I managed not to get sick for Thanksgiving; Wednesday I felt a little icky, but apparently beat illness into submission with... well, it certainly wasn't rest and fluids.  Wednesday I promised to meet Tora-kun for lunch (something I almost never do, so it's a treat -- he was basically alone in his office, and he knew the day was going to be crawling by), and I had to go pick up our friends' Jack Russell terrier.  Sounds easy, yes?  It is, until you consider that Tora-kun's office is forty minutes in one direction, and our friends' home is thirty minutes in the other direction.  We live smack in the middle of these two destinations.  So I drove forty minutes south, had lunch with Tora-kun, and then drove upwards of an hour and a half north (counting for traffic) to get Marley. 

A re-cap of my Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday... )
wordinista: (Darcy Lizzie - OTP!)
Is it wrong that I'm not the least bit excited about the new P&P movie?  I mean, not even a little.  I can't even pretend to get excited over it.  I just can't.  I've seen the trailers, and my reaction has been a consistent "Meh."  I'm not trying to be a snob about it, and it looked "meh" even before I found out they cut out nearly the entire Wickham subplot, which... *shakes head*  The Wickham subplot is... I don't see how you could read the book and say, "Yeah, that guy?  Has to go." 

My thoughts on P&P, in a nutshell - a very large nutshell... )

Thus endeth the rant.
wordinista: (you drive me INSANE)
All right, so I'm grading.

And then I stumble across this gem. --Y'all know how much I love the novel Pride and Prejudice, and so you'll know why my response when I read this passage was a very loud, "WHAT?!?"

“As she had to support herself early in life, Wollstonecraft strongly felt the economic and social limitations that fell especially hard on women” (Women’s Studies 83). Women could never seem to be treated the way that they should have, and both Austen and Wollstonecraft portrayed this image. Even through the marriage of all five daughters in Pride and Prejudice, none of the marriages were for love.

I'm half tempted to ask if she read the entire novel. Because, dude. Jane and Bingley? Lizzie and Darcy? WTF?

*head explodes*

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