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happymisanthrope
06/24/09

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Oh Penguin Illustrated Classics, you can do no wrong.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
06/24/09

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these are great! love the p&p cover.
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Cunning_Linguist
06/24/09

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WANT

Since I'm still boycotting Amazon, does anyone else know where I can get these? :/
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LBB
06/24/09

@Cunning_Linguist: I imagine Borders and B&N, and if indie bookstores don't have them maybe they'd order them for you?
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sassyredhead
06/24/09

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I want The Scarlet Letter in a hangable print! It would be amazing in my bathroom!
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jigglyball
06/24/09

@sassyredhead: This is only tangentially related, but I currently have a print hanging in my bathroom that depicts two pigeons sitting on a the back of a toilet, and it's titled "Stool Pigeons." It was made for bathroom display.
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jigglyball
06/24/09

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The Pearl illustration is cracking me right up. She just looks like an asshole. A baby asshole.
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TheFormerJuneBronson
06/24/09

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Well, that sound was me dashing to Amazon.
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WildSurmise
06/24/09

@TheFormerJuneBronson: me too, though I find myself wondering where Catherine's arms are on the Wuthering Heights cover
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LBB
06/24/09

@WildSurmise: One [orange-gloved] hand is holding her necklace, the other one is at her waist, so I'm assuming they're wrapped in her shawl.
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WildSurmise
06/24/09

@LBB: oh geez, thanks--I totally see it now!
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LBB
06/24/09

@WildSurmise: It took me a minute too, I was like "...WTF?"
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RodetheTrolleywithStanwyck
04/18/09

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So, Jane Austen...I always feel like I have a chromosome missing when posts about her come up. I just...well, I just never got into her stuff. She's an excellent writer. But I just...well, I could never get into her novels. I so dearly tried, because I want to be one of you guys. And I wanted to fit in with the other brilliant folk in my english literature major, back in the day.

(But if we're talking about female novelists from way back when, I LOVE Charlotte Bronte. I could read Jane Eyre every day.)
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hej hej
04/18/09

@RodetheTrolleywithStanwyck: I adore the Bronte sisters. I like Austen, but I think the Brontes are more interesting. Jane Eyre is great but Wuthering Heights is my jam!

As far as well-rounded female characters from English literature that aren't from Austen, I like Margaret Hale from Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South and Charles Dickens' Amy Dorrit from Little Dorrit and Estella Havisham from Great Expectations, even though she's mean.
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
04/18/09

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The Marvel Illustrated series has been consistently AWESOME - they tackled one of my favorite books, The Picture of Dorian Gray last year in 6 volumes and knocked it out of the park:

I'm DEFINITELY looking forward to their take on P&P.

P&P&Z - I could NOT get behind.
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girlleastlikelyto
04/18/09

@BeccaSaurus Rex: Unfortunately, P&P is not looking good: light-boxed porn face on the Bennet sisters: [www.newsarama.com]
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♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
04/18/09

@girlleastlikelyto: The art is pretty abysmal :: the Bennet sisters look like Jem and the Holograms. But the pages themselves seem faithful enough.
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Sanfo
04/18/09

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What does P&P recommend for hysteria? Something about a scrunchie?
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mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
04/18/09

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So does this mean I'll have to go home to m mother's basement to read it. I imagine at the very least I'll have to sport a beard/corset combo and drink beer from a tea cup.
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AthertonMerriweather
04/18/09

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That cover tells me Lizzie knows how to use a scrunchie.
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Jello Mix
04/18/09

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Is that the actual cover? Because I don't know how I feel about that. I think it's relevant to adapt well-loved stories to appeal to a modern audience, but did they have to make it read like a teen magazine cover? Or is that indicative of how dumbed-down the story will be inside? Jane's plots themselves are really predictable; it's her style that makes me love her novels. If these comic books have lost that, it makes me kind of sad.
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tscheese
04/18/09

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I think this is going to be AWESOME.

That said: Has anyone sort of wondered why Pride and Prejudice is Austen's #1 OMG MOST FAMOUS THING A+++ KTHX out of her entire oeuvre?

I think in terms of character complexity and development, Emma is the one book that stands out to me as being a home-run, just because it annoys the teeth out of me. I want to throw that book across a room every time I read it, just because every single character is so gleefully fucked-up. THAT would be an interesting comic adaptation.
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Jello Mix
04/18/09

@tscheese: Emma is my favorite Austen novel. I think it has the best character development. And I agree: you just want to shake some sense into them!
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scarletbegonia
04/18/09

@tscheese: That is interesting that you say that, because I have a friend who thinks Emma is the most frivolous book!

I personally have an unexplainable stigma against Jane Austen, so I have never read her books.
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tscheese
04/18/09

@scarletbegonia: I think the frivolousness is what makes it kind of brilliant. Austen was making a sort of finely calculated, incisive parody/ridicule of what the upper classes thought was important. EVERYTHING WAS DRAMA!!11!omgwtf!11

Austen was snarky. Her critique on rich people with too much time on their hands? Mean as hell. That's why I love Emma: Austen succeeded in making me hate every single character and hate their stupid pissy problems--and kept me reading.
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dancingteacups
04/18/09

@tscheese: Persuasion is my favourite, but Emma is extremely well-written, you're right. Those two and P&P are my top three.
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hej hej
04/18/09

@tscheese: I've always thought the genius of Emma is that Emma is essentially an unlikeable character that we, the reader, end up liking anyway.

I think the best Austen novel is Persuasion. Both the mid-90's movie and recent miniseries were excellent.
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Whiskey and Popcorn
04/18/09

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The Bible seriously needs to get up on that Comic Book wagon. Imagine what they could do with the book of Numbers. Hello family photo!
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mepo - Robert Cornhole invented it
04/18/09

@JaniceLovejoy fromSA: Whiskey and popcorn: I know the Left Behind series has a graphic novel version so I'm sure the bible's already been done.
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Kali Mama
04/18/09

@JaniceLovejoy fromSA: Whiskey and popcorn: Nothing transformed the stories of the bible to me quite like the brick testament:

[www.thebricktestament.com]
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MediasBlue
04/18/09

@Kali Mama: Thank you for that link!
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nessalicious
04/18/09

@JaniceLovejoy fromSA: Whiskey and popcorn: Robert Crumb did the book of Genesis! It's amazing if you can get your hands on it.
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Riff Randell, Rock 'n' Roller
04/18/09

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I dunno ... to me, the attraction of Pride and Prejudice isn't the plot itself but the language with which it's told. If you lose that, you lose a lot of the nuance - can this really capture that?

Disclaimer: I adore comic books. Just love 'em.
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