[ SECRET POST #2609 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2609 ⌋

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[gondremark]

Little Women is a story about some characters and their lives. Some of the characters fall in love, and this is dealt with as a thing that they do or that happens to them; it's done tenderly and realistically, and it's well written and the story is neatly constructed, so we care.

The other books listed are just "OMG so-and-so is so dashing, yay romance" and there's no verisimilitude, we don't get to see the characters as people. And so there's nothing about the falling in love to make us really care, and the romance, which was supposed to be the whole point of the book, falls flat.

P. S. When I say "is" I mean "as I see it" and when I say "we" I mean "I".
P. P. S. I haven't read Gone With the Wind; everything I said above refers to the Austen and Bronte tripe (which I've read sections of but couldn't stomach in its entirety). GWtW may or may not be brilliant, I don't know.

[(Anonymous)]

OMG so-and-so is so dashing, yay romance

Holy shit that is the last way I would describe Persuasion OR Jane Erye. Holy shit. Have you even read them? Jesus. There is nothing dashing or yay romance about either of them.

[(Anonymous)]

yeah nah

i'm gonna have to disagree with you about Jane Eyre. i enjoyed the book because i liked jane as a character, not because "yay romance". also rochester was a massive douche, and honestly? i kind of would've liked it if jane just ran off with her money and went travelling the world.

also persuasion is the best.

[sarillia]

Chiming in as another one who completely disagrees with you on your interpretation of Austen and Bronte.

I'm also having a lot of fun thinking about what Louisa May Alcott might think of how you described Little Women.

[(Anonymous)]

The thing about Austen to me is that her characters aren't SUPPOSED to be 'real people'. The books are in large part satire, building almost caricature-like (or in some cases fully caricatured) characters that she can then pull apart for sport. I enjoy the satire, and her sheer genius in her use of the english language, but she's not one to read for characters, imho.

(that being said, "so-and-so is dashing yay romance" is SO not her books that it kind of makes me laugh. Seriously?)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think they've read them. They just assume their 'romance novels'.