Comments | swedepea: Speaking of JAFF

swedepea

Speaking of JAFF

May 29, 2012 10:43

I pretty much wasted my whole long weekend on a JAFF kick. I blame this on PD James and Death Comes to Pemberley. In a word, it was pretty awful (okay, that's two words). I posted on twitter that I gave it 2.5/5 stars, and Shem told me she thought I was being too generous, and I'm inclined to agree. I will put my comments under a cut to hide ( Read more... )

dwg, austen

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shemmelle May 29 2012, 15:59:05 UTC

You have to make a fist and shake it when saying this phrase

swedepea May 29 2012, 16:26:49 UTC

Right. This. One wants to get the full effect!

spotzle May 29 2012, 16:16:11 UTC

We should encourage people (again) to start seeking publishing since JA stories are still popular in the publishing world (AS THEY SHOULD BE).

Or is that too much like nagging for more chapters?

swedepea May 29 2012, 16:27:01 UTC

And here I thought you were going to post recs. *pouts* ;-)

spotzle May 29 2012, 16:43:32 UTC

I can't remember the last time I read JAFF.

swedepea May 29 2012, 17:00:11 UTC

Haha! I must say, it's something I do rarely!

brightly_woven May 29 2012, 17:14:58 UTC

Now you can go back and read my review. Oh. Wait. You don't have to. Because you wrote basically what I said, but better and more thoroughly.

Col. Fitzwilliam--MY BIGGEST BEEF. What happened to him?!?!?!

Also, no real Lizzy/Darcy--can you please give us less of a view into their marriage than Jane Austen did and without an iota of her charm and wit in moving the "camera" off screen?

swedepea May 29 2012, 17:27:09 UTC

I know, right!? How did JA manage to say more about Lizzy and Darcy's marriage in the last few pages of P&P (was it even pages? or paragraphs??) than this book did in 300 pages?! Even the one instance when the narrative says Darcy was looking forward to finally going to bed and seeing Elizabeth (at which point we could have romance, conversation, anything *at all* to speak to their characters and relationship.....), but no, somehow he ends up spending the night uncomfortably in an armchair in the library with Col Fitzwilliam. WTH?!

sietske May 30 2012, 15:54:07 UTC

In a word, it was pretty awful (okay, that's two words).
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You can solve this by just saying "awful" :-D

(was it even pages? or paragraphs??)
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The last chapter discusses the future, but there's only one or two paragraphs that touch on the interpersonal relationships within the Darcy home - the ones about Kitty and Georgiana.

swedepea May 30 2012, 16:20:48 UTC

Right. Which still communicates more than this book does in 300 pages.

You can solve this by just saying "awful" :-D
Yes. That. Let's just go with that. ;-)