Yes, one of the things that struck me about 'Clueless' was just how little actually had to be changed to transplant the story & characters to a modern American high school. Human behavior really doesn't seem to alter much despite time & distance, lol.
Mansfield Park & Emma are both rather long, & think that might be part of what's getting in my way. I gobbled up all of Austen's other books very quickly, but they're shorter, so they didn't have quite the same repetitive feel the longer ones have, particularly as Emma is only set in one place with the same characters, whereas all the other novels have a change of setting at some point which helps enliven things. But I'm determined to finish them both eventually!
'Delta & the Bannermen' isn't terrifying at all, don't worry- I wouldn't even call it bad, it's just very strangely cobbled together out of a lot of different elements so that it kind of defies a concise description. But if you can get past the strangeness of intergalactic wars & alien princesses with green babies dropped into the middle of 1950s cutesy nostalgia, Seven & Mel are great. They're a really underrated team. <3
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Date: 2015-06-19 10:11 am (UTC)Mansfield Park & Emma are both rather long, & think that might be part of what's getting in my way. I gobbled up all of Austen's other books very quickly, but they're shorter, so they didn't have quite the same repetitive feel the longer ones have, particularly as Emma is only set in one place with the same characters, whereas all the other novels have a change of setting at some point which helps enliven things. But I'm determined to finish them both eventually!
'Delta & the Bannermen' isn't terrifying at all, don't worry- I wouldn't even call it bad, it's just very strangely cobbled together out of a lot of different elements so that it kind of defies a concise description. But if you can get past the strangeness of intergalactic wars & alien princesses with green babies dropped into the middle of 1950s cutesy nostalgia, Seven & Mel are great. They're a really underrated team. <3