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[cimorene]

Dude. ITV's new adaptation of Austen's Persuasion has Anthony Stewart Head as Anne's father!

!!!

It's like they said "What could make cim even more excited than our great-idea-not-so-great-in-the-execution plan of casting Billie Piper in Mansfield Park?"

isilya: Anne's father is a moron, though?
cim: Yes! But I don't care!

The next step in ITV's plan to fill my life with joy is making a new adaptation of Northanger Abbey, by the way, which is my favourite Austen novel and completely made of WIN, and I've been so consumed with enthusiasm about the whole thing that I wandered over to the Republic of Pemberley several times in the past few weeks and am slowly developing the most acute longing for this shirt, and smaller amounts of longing for these two.

Comments

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

...that it even makes me type badly.

really.

SO

BORING

[cimness.livejournal.com]

I thought that the first time I read it, when I was a young teenager, but when I came back to it in college I really loved it. It's undoubtedly more muted and slow-paced than other Austen novels, but for all its seriousness no less incisively witty, and of all her novels it contains perhaps the most exquisitely-fashioned scenes of romance.