Swagger Inn Thread 103 - Wenches Win the Internet

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Some of us are sat in the communal tavern bed eating cake and being drunk. Some of us are on a forrinholiday having a very successfull and enjoyable time.

Some of us would like this

Austen lovers - does anyone actually like Mansfield Park ? I just want to slap all the characters

Ooh yes Treville as Brandon is a good call morelike. Agree that Lizzy is usually cast more attractively than Jane (honourable exception is the Larry O version with Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane, much prettier than Greer Garson, who also looks older than Jane)

Santi as Edward Ferrers?

And Aidan Turner as Heathcliff? Well fuck me very much.

Has anywench read the Jasper Fforde Thursday Next books? And the Nursery Crimes series, and Shades of Grey. I've not read them for ages. I might treat myself in time for my holiday.

Mm yes, can see Santi as Capt Wentworth

No, cinn, I don't like it very much at all and get most cross at being made to feel shallow for that . Agree they could all do with a slap, and would be a lot happier if Fanny grew a spine & told Edmund to FRO when he came crawling back to her. I think her brother was the only really likeable character & he's at sea for most of the book.

Fancy I like that version because Mary and Kitty get "lovairs" at the end of it. Always seemed sad to me that they didn't...

Ooh I am really liking the idea of Treville as Colonel Brandon. Dog could be Greg Wise the Other Guy whose name temporarily escapes me.

Cin I have to be in the right mood to read it. Lady Bertram is written so perfectly, I could totally channel her when I'm having a shit day and just want to retire from motherhood for an afternoon But yes, the others are all annoying as fuck.

Anne he would. All that repressed emotion and The Stare could be usefully employed.

Evening all!

Hope you're feeling better soon WW and yy to damn end of term shenanigans.

Arf at Apes description of a fitbit. It has arrived and is charged so I'll let you know in the morning just how badly I slept!

I too would say Wuthering Heights - defo TB and not Santi, Santi just can't lean and brood like Tom does.
I'm currently reading Life After Life by Kate Atkinson who I really love. I re-read Behind The Scenes At The Museum on a train fairly recently - started weeping at one point felt rather ridic. I'd imagine the Time Travellers Wife would have the same effect cinn - another great book.

My favourite-est writer is Margery Allingham - crime writer at her best in the 1930s. Have read and re-read her stuff loads over the last 20 years.

I do like the Tav. Not just about HBF

LetUs good call on AT as Heathcliff. My knickers would combust!

No NO NOOOO to Santi as EF - that role is tainted by the memory of Hugh Grant . Mind you, I still would.

I'd like to see AT as Heathcliff, although I worry there's not enough scything in the book.

Willoughy, ali?

Have to go against the grain and say that I really dislike Handmaiden's Tale. It was one of my A level texts, so whether I've just over-analysed every.single.word to the point where it no longer has any meaning, I don't know.
Also, Mouse you mentioned The French Lieutenant's Woman. I ploughed womanfully through that aged 16, and then at the end it just stops. Maybe I should try again?

Willoughby FFS

Fancy yes that's the one.

YY to Thursday Next, LetUs, although I'm less keen on the Nursery Crimes and Shades of Grey (published in 2010, before thatotherbook in 2011. Bet JFf was pissed about the title crossover). Do find the Thursday books a bit arch and 'aren't I clever' sometimes.

I cannot claim credit for the AT as Heathcliff suggestion. It was Madame and I am very grateful.

Was Hugh Grant in the Emma Thompson version? I've still got the Dan Stevens version in my head from last weekend. RA as Colonel Brandon.

cinn hahaha re mansfield park slapping. yes, totally.

letus I have read a few Thursday Next books, yes.

NO WAY is santi edward ferrars.

Basically, Im sorry but I cant see him in austen at all. He is just too hispanic. and austen is the most english thing ever. I know this is crap and unfair and he hates having roles limited to him like this. Sorry santi.

Oh yes, AT as Heathcliffe would do nicely.

I'm another one for a bit of Forster - it took me nigh on 20 years to realise that HBC was actually perfect as Lucy Honeychurch in the film - I'd always thought she was a bit wooden. The kiss in the field scene is just lovely.

In contrast I'm also partial to a bit of Iain Banks - mainstream rather than sci-fi. The Crow Road is wonderful.

I know what you mean Cinn. Landen Parke-Laine still makes me though

Hugh Grant was in the Emma Thompson version. Maybe I need to see other versions to erase the memory?

I do know what you mean madame re Santi in Austen, but if I picture Santi as Vronsky, then it doesn't seem like such a strange thing. Maybe he could be Willoughby?

Yep, hugh grant was ferrars, and alan rickman was v good as colonel brandon.

Maybe fancy, maybe. I prefer him cheeky and hispanic to stiff upper lip britishy russian type though.

Oh yeh greg wise was willoughy (hahaha) ij the emma thompson version.

And that version with ET, HG etc - even though all the ages are wrong - just works perfectly. Even Kate Winslet doesn't annoy me that much.

It does mavis. Even emma thompson doesnt annoy me in it.

It is a good version I agree mavis, although as you say the ages are not right.

cheeky & flirty Santi