So very tired of the sensationalist "pregnancy is yucky and fucks up your immaculate pristine perfectly functioning at all times body" bullshit. Grow up.

And HIS fucktard of a mother has the nerve to ask for an appology to her son from Colemans, for distress they caused him. This woman is despicable human being who raised a RAPIST. Some people shouldnt breed. For the sake of humanity.

I'm so sick of the "these poor boys, look what you are doing to their life" mentality. This guy is a rapist. He's probably raped girls before Daisy and girls after Daisy. Why not? It's been proven that he can get away with it. Not only get away with it but get the girl punished by the whole town! They burned…

That search turns up a blog called Antifeminist Technology. I'd never open it but WHAT?! And all those article asking naively, why did he kill women?? As though it's some super complicated mystery. It's because of misogyny, hello! Ugh.

Sooo, to to fight the patriarchy, he wants you modify your life around what a guy thinks is best for you? Yeah, not sure your boyfriend thought that one through.

I kind of admire her boldness in doing this, but I also think this is not an author who understands what her audience wants. The number one rule of romance fiction is to keep your couple together. Her book sales will probably be half of what they could have been now.

Exactly. I loved the original book and tolerated "Edge of Reason" fairly well, but good lord, I do not want to escape my life into a world where Bridget is a widowed cougar.

It's always interesting how people manage to forget what an insufferable person Elizabeth was, too. It's called Pride & Prejudice for a reason.

Thank you. I always feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people talk about Darcy as a beast archetype: a bad guy transformed by love. That doesn't happen in the book. There is no transformation. (In fact, I think the hallmark of all of Austin's novels is that people don't change in them. People are very simply what…

Darcy actually was always a really good person. He was a good elder brother, a good master (remember, his housekeeper really liked him) and tried to be a really good friend as well, trying to look out for him (it wasn't his fault that he didn't know Jane and therefore couldn't realize that she was in fact in love with…

And she gets over her own hurt pride, and learns not to judge people as quickly just because she happens to be the most intelligent person in the room.

Yeah, there's definitely that *mutual* growth and development in both of the characters. They both have their Pride and their Prejudice to overcome. Maybe I just always liked Darcy for the conversation that he has with Elizabeth about his social awkwardness that goes something like this:

God, seriously! Kill off Vile Richard, Jude's better off without him anyway!

Absolutely agree. Moreover, when he does "transform," it isn't transforming through the power of Elizabeth's love or whatever... his personality was always there, he was just in company where he did not feel comfortable expressing it. Once she got to know him better and saw him around people he actually valued and…

Excellent point.

this is all fine but pride and prejudice is a satire first and foremost. virtually no variations on pride and prejudice take that into account or use satire in their books.

this is all fine but pride and prejudice is a satire first and foremost. virtually no variations on pride and prejudice take that into account or use satire in their books.

The exception fantasy is one of my favorites— best exemplified by Mr. Big from SATC. This is a man who broke up with you 3x, married someone else, cheated on her, ruined your relationships, left you at the altar... and then he's the perfect guy? Most likely, if he goes to France and doesn't ask you, he doesn't love…

I'm pretty sure that Rochester is just meant to be a creep and people have horribly misread that book for ages.

I'm from Bulgaria and women here tend to be better educated than men, too - at least in my social circles. We even have quotas for men in universities because they can't compete with women at entrance exams and obviously they deserve a place in university because of their penis, ugh, don't get me started. Anyway, I'm…