Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for February 20, 2011

Evie, you shouldn’t have said that!

If Jan did the actual caligraphy in this, I am very impressed.

As a young person who reads classical literature, I resent that. I am sure that you, @Nabuquduriuzhur, and Ladyfingers86 were taught in high school not to make broad generalizations of an entire group. While the young people that you an influence with might not like books, the large majority of those that I spend time with do.

I remember doing a book report on “Lottie & Lisa” read my book report to the class. And Surprise! the teacher called me a cheat right in class. She said she was giving me an F for trying to use a movie (The Parent Trap) as a book report. I went home in tears early that day. My mom had me take the book to school the next day along with a letter stating that I had never seen the movie and that “The Parent Trap was based off “Lottie & Lisa”. The look on the teacher’s face when she saw the book…priceless.

Nabuquduriuzhur - novelists were paid by the word and novels were quite often published as serials before being assembled as novels. It’s also no coincidence that the earliest popular novels were published in England. They had a relatively well educated population for the time and they had some of the earliest copyright laws.

quit writing long comments! it takes forever to read them! write something short and sweet would ya! btw, ohhhhh you shouldn’t have said that evie!

Which movie? There’s about thirty-seven dozen of them.

Evie, I thought you were sharper than that.

Speaking of “long treatises”…

If Jan had wanted, she could have used an even more appropriate script:

http://www.fontriver.com/font/jane_austen/

There’s a new version called Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, which retains most of the original text, but adds the living dead in as well.

The BBC version done in the mid 90’s is the best version of the book I’ve seen made into a movie.

Indeed the BBC version is the best. But it’s a 6-part mini-series not a movie. Holly probably wouldn’t have the patience to sit through it.

This is late on my comment I’m an adult. I never heard of Pride and Preduice when I was Holly’s age. I bought the book at a garage sale and read it and I sometimes got confused from the writing and pictures didn’t connect. 20 years late I finally saw the movie and that movie was different from the book. Talk about formal language.

Don’t forget the comic book. Just don’t mix it up with the Zombie version.

The movie was actually pretty good, but the book was very hard to read… Jane Austen was very wordy when describing things.