Comments on: #69: Enough With The Jane Austen Worship http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:40:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Melody http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-971 Melody Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:38:08 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-971 Because I don't care for the Bronte sister's work. Because Austen knows how to brilliantly turn a phrase. Granted, I'm not into anything except Austen's *books*, but I have no intention of replacing my love for them. Because I don’t care for the Bronte sister’s work.
Because Austen knows how to brilliantly turn a phrase.

Granted, I’m not into anything except Austen’s *books*, but I have no intention of replacing my love for them.

]]> By: Mags http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-140 Mags Wed, 12 Nov 2008 06:35:32 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-140 <i>Why not devote equal attention to the Brontes, who pulled back the curtain on a wilder brand of early womanhood?</i> Because after reading Jane Austen, the Brontes make me giggle behind my hand. I like their stuff, mind, I just can't take it very seriously. Why not devote equal attention to the Brontes, who pulled back the curtain on a wilder brand of early womanhood?

Because after reading Jane Austen, the Brontes make me giggle behind my hand. I like their stuff, mind, I just can’t take it very seriously.

]]> By: Pamela Redmond http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Pamela Redmond Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:41:18 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-149 Thanks! And my favorite book so far this year is Tana French's In The Woods. Thanks! And my favorite book so far this year is Tana French’s In The Woods.

]]> By: Cassie http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Cassie Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:44:23 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-148 Right on, I loved The Post Birthday World too. (I'm 30, I think I'm old before my time - I need this blog!) Right on, I loved The Post Birthday World too. (I’m 30, I think I’m old before my time – I need this blog!)

]]> By: Mauigirl http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Mauigirl Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:19:53 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-147 I'm with you on the Brontes. I always liked their books better than Jane's, although I enjoyed hers too. I also loved George Eliot. I remember being assigned to read "Middlemarch" over spring break for my English Novel course in college (back in my day we didn't go to Cancun). I read the whole 900-something pages in that one week and loved it! I’m with you on the Brontes. I always liked their books better than Jane’s, although I enjoyed hers too.

I also loved George Eliot. I remember being assigned to read “Middlemarch” over spring break for my English Novel course in college (back in my day we didn’t go to Cancun). I read the whole 900-something pages in that one week and loved it!

]]> By: Typewriter http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Typewriter Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:05:07 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-146 What's this? Nobody ever told me there were Jane Austen clothing lines. I'm eager to learn more, even as it occurs to me that I really don't look good in an Empire-waist dress. And who can look dignified in a ruffled cap? What’s this? Nobody ever told me there were Jane Austen clothing lines. I’m eager to learn more, even as it occurs to me that I really don’t look good in an Empire-waist dress. And who can look dignified in a ruffled cap?

]]> By: LuciaM http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-145 LuciaM Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:30:04 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-145 Hey there Granny, It's time to broaden your horizons: come over to the Google Earth Community (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0) and take a look at the many and varied and over-the-top layers that put the life and works of many creative people into their geographic context. We're not engaging in worship; we're helping to "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful", as Google likes to put it. In addition of my Jane Austen Layer (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/411188/an/0/page/0), you'll find ones on Jack Kerouac (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/240611), Salvador Dali (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/938627/an/0/page/12), James Ensor (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/1051575), PG Wodehouse (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=571160), all of the places in Shakespeare's plays (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/155428/an/0/page/0) and the travels of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=546450). (I'm also rather fond of my layer on the lives of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=365164). And of course, you'll find numerous layers on topics of substance in many other fields. So, download Google Earth and give it a spin. After all, the ability to merge one's traditional interests with cutting edge technology, especially if like me, you were born before personal computers even existed, is one sure-fire way to not act old. In the meanwhile, thanks for the extra hits to my file. ;) cheers, Lucia Hey there Granny,

It’s time to broaden your horizons: come over to the Google Earth Community (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.php/Cat/0) and take a look at the many and varied and over-the-top layers that put the life and works of many creative people into their geographic context. We’re not engaging in worship; we’re helping to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, as Google likes to put it.

In addition of my Jane Austen Layer (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/411188/an/0/page/0), you’ll find ones on Jack Kerouac (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/240611), Salvador Dali (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/938627/an/0/page/12), James Ensor (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/1051575), PG Wodehouse (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=571160), all of the places in Shakespeare’s plays (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/155428/an/0/page/0) and the travels of Stephen Dedalus in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=546450). (I’m also rather fond of my layer on the lives of the Six Wives of Henry VIII: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=365164). And of course, you’ll find numerous layers on topics of substance in many other fields.

So, download Google Earth and give it a spin. After all, the ability to merge one’s traditional interests with cutting edge technology, especially if like me, you were born before personal computers even existed, is one sure-fire way to not act old.

In the meanwhile, thanks for the extra hits to my file. ;)

cheers,
Lucia

]]> By: cspademan http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-144 cspademan Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:03:00 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-144 "A Plague of Doves" is my planned beach read (Duck, NC, 2nd week of August) along with a re-read of Lance Armstrong's first book. Now THAT'S a combination platter... “A Plague of Doves” is my planned beach read (Duck, NC, 2nd week of August) along with a re-read of Lance Armstrong’s first book. Now THAT’S a combination platter…

]]> By: Pamela Redmond http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-143 Pamela Redmond Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:39:21 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-143 Of course I agree. I can't wait to get her new book of linked stories, A Plague of Doves. The excerpt in The New Yorker was stunning in every sense of that word. Of course I agree. I can’t wait to get her new book of linked stories, A Plague of Doves. The excerpt in The New Yorker was stunning in every sense of that word.

]]> By: Charlie Spademan http://www.hownottoactold.com/2008/07/18/69-enough-with-the-jane-austen-worship/comment-page-1/#comment-142 Charlie Spademan Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:05:31 +0000 http://hownottoactold.wordpress.com/?p=190#comment-142 I was so pleased at your mention of Louise Erdrich's work; I have re-read all of her works, some many times. Her "Last Report of Miracles at Little No Horse" remains my favorite book, by anyone. That she remains relatively unknown mystifies me. I was so pleased at your mention of Louise Erdrich’s work; I have re-read all of her works, some many times. Her “Last Report of Miracles at Little No Horse” remains my favorite book, by anyone. That she remains relatively unknown mystifies me.

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