WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!, Emma

[peachke]

1. So I'm obsessed with Meg McCarron's new short story WE HEART VAMPIRES!!!!!!. The story is kind of breathless and hot and sticky, sexually powerful and ambivalent, a little queasy, uncomfortable, scary. I'm probably biased since it's all wrapped up in my own concerns--female desire, sex, girls' friendships, terror

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[malarkysandwich]

Dude I am on a Jane Austen thing right now. Emma was enjoyable. I'm currently reading Mansfield Park, which is so good. I like it even better than Pride and Prejudice so far.

I think Emma's objection to Mr. Martin is more about class than any of his personal qualities. I think that Emma is upper class and Mr. Martin is a farmer who works with his hands, and she looks down on him for that. She's trying to pull Harriet farther up the social ladder and away from his sort. I totally agree with your replacement of "vulgar" with "tacky" for the Cox girls though.

Have you seen the film adaptation of Emma that stars Gwyneth Paltrow? My roommate and I tried watching it recently, and it was so bad we didn't finish it.

[peachke]

RE Mr. Martin: Oh, no, that's exactly what I'm trying to say--Emma works if you replace the connotations of the economic classes of her time with the connotations of modern social classes, predicated on "cool" (often correlating to economic tho), and he is of a low "cool" level, with the oversize blue shirt and the khakis. Um. If that makes sense. I used the oversized light blue shirt as a shorthand for what social class he's in.

I actually didn't like P&P, though maybe it's because I read it in high school. :(