[ SECRET POST #2609 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2609 ⌋

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Comments

[philstar22]

I agree with you, OP. And I feel like I'm one of the only people who actually disliked Jo/Laurie and was glad they didn't end up together. Which is weird because friendship romances are usually my thing, but I felt he would have held her back. I loved who she ended up with. He was a good match for her, I felt.

[(Anonymous)]

Winona Ryder movie Bhaer was someone I could've seen her with. The rest, bleh.

[philstar22]

I don't know. It just works for me. I can't explain it because it totally doesn't fit in with my usual shipping preferences. Although, I will say that the Winona Ryder version is by far the best adaption. Love it forever.

[(Anonymous)]

I've always hated the Jo/Bhaer thing. Thinking about it, Little Women might be the root of my dislike for younger woman/older man pairings.

[philstar22]

I think most fans of the book agree. I don't know, I just like it. I felt like he encouraged her to be her best self and let her be who she was. I always got the impression that Laurie would hold her back. But that's just me. I'm not even sure why because Jo/Laurie is usually everything I love in a ship.

[(Anonymous)]

I quite like younger woman/older man pairings, but still heartily dislike Jo/Bhaer.

[gondremark]

In retrospect, I think I really shipped Jo and Bhaer. I remember really liking that Jo ended up with someone who was good for her and who she was good for instead of just going for the pretty boy.
And I was 12

[(Anonymous)]

Laurie was her childhood friend. He wasn't just "the pretty boy".

[sarillia]

I prefer Jo and the Professor but his attitude toward her is still too fatherly for my comfort, not just because of the age thing, I'm fine with that, but the way he lectures her about her writing. But I can't stand the way Laurie tries to manipulate her.

Also, responding to the secret in general, my first thought: "Gone With the Wind" is romance?? I enjoy Scarlet and Rhett's relationship but I would not call that book a romance novel.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, me neither.

[(Anonymous)]

It's really an epic novel--it's about the fall and subsequent regeneration of the South as much as about Scarlett and Rhett. In fact I would say it's about Scarlett MUCH more than it's about the two of them--her coming of age and then some.

[elialshadowpine]

Yessss. I didn't mind Bhaer until he started in on scolding her for what she wrote. I was like, "Oh, stfu and let her write her fun sensational commercial novels that are paying her fucking way, will you?"

This may have also been because her stories sounded FUCKING COOL.

[sarillia]

Have you ever read any of the sensational novels that Louisa May Alcott wrote? They're so entertaining.

[elialshadowpine]

She did!?!? NAMES. I must have them.

[sarillia]

The ones I know of are A Long Fatal Love Chase, Behind a Mask, or A Woman's Power, The Abbot's Ghost and A Modern Mephistopheles. I picked up the first one at a used book sale but I've found the others online.

Enjoy! :)

[elialshadowpine]

Eeeee. Hopefully they will be on Project Gutenberg. I always loved so much the stories that Jo came up with in Little Women, so finding out that Louisa May Alcott also wrote sensational stories -- eeeeeee. I will have to load these up on my Kindle :D

[tabaqui]

When i was a kid, i desperately wanted Jo/Laurie, but as i got older, i really liked Professor Bhaer and her together, and i really did love Amy and Laurie together. Meg and John, though, always kind of put my hackles up.

[waterfall8484]

You're not alone, I feel the same way. Jo/Laurie I never really had strong feelings about, but I liked both Amy/Laurie (am I the only one?) and Jo/Bhaer, because they obviously had a lot in common. How he speaks to her a lot of the time is a little iffy IMO, but I think that's mostly just a convention of the time it was written.