Anne/Gil vs. Jo/Laurie - A Comparison Study

[respectmyright]

I am not a morning person. In fact, I am very much a night owl, but I am forced to conform to ridiculously early hours of sleeping and waking (well, mostly waking; I can't always conform to the sleeping early thing) during the school year. The result of this is that during the summers, when I can live the hobo life, I take extreme advantage of my

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[foodsthatcan]

HAHAHAHA!! I actually QUIT reading Little Women in fifth grade because I was so incensed that not only did Jo stupidly refuse Laurie, he went and married vile Amy and Jo got stuck with an OLD MAN!! I still had issues when the Winona Ryder version came out, but as I got older, I decided Gabriel Byrne was HOT for an OLD MAN and could forgive Jo for picking him instead of Christian Bale.

I haven't seen AOGG:TS in ages, but the whole "Gilbert Speaks" chapter in Anne of the Island guts me every single time. Sometimes I even kry! That one and the scene in Gone With the Wind (the book) where Rhett makes his drunken confession to Melanie, man.

[respectmyright]

HAHAHAHA, I'm glad you understand, guy. The Laurie/Amy thing was really not cool, especially when their daughter was so spoiled and delicate that she couldn't recognize a good thing when it was right in front of her in Jo's Boys. (The whole Dan/Bess doomed love storyline kills me because the only reason that it was doomed was because Bess was so "pure" and "delicate" and "way beyond" Dan and stuff! WTF?! But seriously, the Dan/Bess parting scene in that book gets me every time. I think that and the Dog Monday scenes in Rilla of Ingleside are the two book scenes that are guaranteed to make me teary, every time.)

And I totally still had issues when the 1994 Little Women came out, and now that I've rewatched the scenes, I kind of still do! I mean, in theory, I really like Professor Bhaer and all, but Laurie! LAURIE! Christian Bale plays the proposal scene so perfectly that I don't understand how Jo could refuse him! As for AoGG: TS, I haven't seen the whole thing in a long time, either, but I've watched it so many times that I have

[jackiejunior]

Did you know that the original icon stealer hates Anne of Green Gables? DEUCE!

*is random*

[respectmyright]

HOW CAN ANYONE (except maybe boys, because they are deuce and have no taste, in general) HATE ANNE OF GREEN GABLES??? INFINITY DEUCES!

[mayorofyourtown]

I HATE ANNE OF GREEN GABLES! I saw one of those damn movies in grade four (or five?) and it was without a doubt the worst thing I had ever seen. I remember Anne and her loser friend blubbering about bosoms and buddies while they were drinking some blackberry schnapps (or maybe some kind of weird wine?) and just being lame. And I remember them talking about people making fun of their hair and how it made no sense. I mean, gingers get made fun of for being gingers, but the loser-y friend had dark brown hair, and that's hardly uncommon.

Plus, the fact that it apparently only appeals to women is seventy trillion kinds of deuce in my books! Books about women and their feelings are supremely boring and stupid, and I can't imagine getting all wrapped up in the boring women's relationships with boring, wussy men.

Except for volume two of Jane Eyre, but that doesn't count because Rochester was a spicy delight and Jane was a FOOL. Stupid Jane! Ugh. I hated how she was such a wet blanket with the nagging and everything before the wedding and

[respectmyright]

Guy, I would delete your insanity, because NO ONE DISSES ANNE OF GREEN GABLES IN MY LJ AND GETS AWAY WITH IT, but I'm going to leave it just to say that I think you're male on the inside. Hm, except for the Sephora fetish, so maybe you're a drag queen on the inside? HAHAHAHA. >:D

Anne of Green Gables is amazing and beautiful, GOOD books about feelings are awesome, and Jane Eyre sucks. Oh my God, I hated that book. That, and Wuthering Heights.

[respectmyright]

I think I have read every book L.M. Montgomery ever wrote, including all the short story collections released after her death. I know I have every single one of her books/story collections on my bookshelf, and I'm pretty sure the only one I didn't read all the way through was A Tangled Web. I LOVE The Blue Castle, too, but I think my favourite Montgomery books are Anne of the Island and Emily of New Moon.

[valueofaloonie]

Um, ANNE + GILBERT = FOREVAH.

I think I'll reread me some Anne this afternoon. Yay!

[fightin_the_law]

KONFESSION! I have never managed to finish reading Little Women, even though I totally loved the 1994 movie version. Ugh, stupid Amy and lame Beth and boring Meg... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Maybe I'll try again when I go to my parents' tomorrow, but I've never managed to get more than halfway through it.

Also, although I love the first two Anne books, I have progressively less patience for them as they go on. I mean, being dreamy and flowery is okay as long as you're in school, but then... Christ almighty, grow up already. Also, I'm convinced that if the Anne books were written today, Paul Irving would turn out to be a flaming homosexual.

I read Jane Eyre in 6th grade and didn't understand any of it. I should give it another go. Just had to vent a little there, though.

[foodsthatcan]

Wait...are you saying there are people who think Paul Irving is NOT a flaming homosexual?! Because even when I was ten and didn't really know what homosexuality was, I knew there was something up with that boy.

[fightin_the_law]

Doesn't he end up getting married or something? Not that that rules out his being a flaming homosexual, I guess.

[respectmyright]

Does he end up getting married? I don't remember that. The last I remember of him is when he comes back to visit Avonlea in Anne of the Island (after being away in Boston for a year or whatever) and he can't find his Rock People anymore. But I remember in that chapter it said something about how he'd cut his curls, grown more "manly" and was into football instead of fairies, so... heh!