Literary Week :)

How about a literary week, starting next Sunday! :) What do y'all think?

I'll be Elsie Dinsmore, or Capitola, or Doris Avery, or Norah's daughter (I forget her name) from A Peep Behind The Scenes. Or maybe Agnes or Emma from the White Dove.

I claim Jo March!

EDIT: Oh, wait, I'm already a literary character… Oh well, I'll still be Jo. :)

I claim Elsie Dinsmore!

Yeah… :)

Hmmm…I can't think of any girl characters I like…besides Jo March. I could be Elizabeth Bennett…other then I don't like that book! Or I could be Pacarina… Other than those I'd have to choose a guy character… :P

Edit: I'll either be Lawerence or Chester Stoning or Colonel Nobody.

Elsie Dismal?! Blech!!

I shall be Lucy Pevensie! :D

I love Elizabeth Bennet! If you don't want to be her I may consider her instead of Lucy… But I think I like Lucy a little better. ;)

Go ahead and take her :P

Well, I might decide on Lucy…

, or Norah's daughter (I forget her name) from A Peep Behind The Scenes.

Rosalie.

Hum de dum de dum. Well, I'll just be…umm…Pearl Maiden.

Ummm, who is Elizabeth Bennett again? xP

Pride and Prejudice character. gags From what I've seen and heard it's way to romantic!

Riiiight…… xP Why did you want to be her then?

I don't!!! She was just someone I could be…or else I'd have to be a man… :P

Oh, okay xP Yeah, I can't really think of any girl characters I like…they're always so… well, they're just not really very good. :P

Oh, okay xP Yeah, I can't really think of any girl characters I like...they're always so... well, they're just not really very good. :P

Exactly!!!!!

Oh, okay xP Yeah, I can't really think of any girl characters I like...they're always so... well, they're just not really very good. :P

Exactly!!!!!

:-/

I claim Elsie Dinsmore!

Aw man! xP Then I'll be Elsie Dinsmore III xP

"Lame" is the word that comes to my mind for most girl characters. "Non-existant" is also often the case in good books: I am considering being a random Ent-wife just because they were lost so they couldn't make nuisances of themselves by being extremely beautiful, not very intelligent, and, worst of all, mushy-gushy.

I agree. It's really sad that there are so few (I'm being optimistic here that there actually are some…I just haven't come across them yet) books with descent girl characters. Haha, that's a good idea :P

Or I could be the goldfish in the cat in the hat. I don't know what gender it is. Do fish have genders? (Or maybe I don't want to ask this question…)

Ohh, good idea! And I don't know what gender it was or if goldfish have genders either. (Um..yeah…)

Pride and Prejudice character. *gags* From what I've seen and heard it's way to romantic!

No! It's an awesome book. I even know a manly man in his thirties who holds it to be his favorite story! The A&D version of the movie is good (there's only one kiss, and its after the wedding), I've never seen the more recent one, it did look way to romantic.

I love the BBC version (which is the only one I've watched xP), with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle!! Is that the one you're talking about? The acting was amazing, and it was just a super great story and everything! I actually haven't read the book (hehe, yeah) :( But I'd like to!

For the rest of you, here's something I don't get:

Why do you claim you don't like mushy-gushy romance and Pride and Prejeduce (which, FYI, isn't actually all that mushy) and all that, yet love Elsie Dinsmore?! The Elsie books have plenty of romance, but it's completely and pathetically lame. I mean, Elsie's practically perfect (besides the fact that she's racist, and in the books that's looked upon as acceptable), EXTREMLELY boring, and a total wimp. Her husband doesn't even want her to hold her own baby for fear that she will hurt her fragile self! That's what I call boring, lame, and pathetic. Give me a good romance story any day over (tries not to vomit) Elsie Dinsmore.

I really don't like Elsie…I totally agree with you there :P And I haven't seen/read P&P, just heard parts of it. :P I didn't like the parts I saw…but since I haven't read/watched it, I can't really make a good judgment on it :P

Okay, good :)

Yeah, well, I know some families might not be thrilled about P and P, but our family really enjoyed it and loved the great character development, humor, wit, and even the touching (and very well done) romance ;)

I do not like Elsie Dismal. I do like Elizabeth Benefit.
Pride and Prejudice is an awesome book and Jane Austin is a great writer, in fact, the only writer I know of that can write "romances" that I like. But, except for maybe Elizabeth and Eleanor, I still think the guy characters (Mr. Darcy, Edward, Colonel Brandon, and especially Mr. Knightly) are more awesome.

But isn't Pride and Prejudice mostly just about those young ladies talking about who they might marry and what guy they were going to see at the party that night? In other words, useless?

I pretty much don't like Elsie… P&P sounds bad… I guess Capitola is my favorite girl character! I claim Cap.

I finally thought of an okay girl character…only problem is that she's from a movie not a book :P So I'll have to think some more xP

I claim India Opal Buloni, from "Because of Winn-Dixie"! :-)

Someone new posted…

Emmy: Yes, that's the one we saw. I agree with what you said about Elsie, except for the racism bit. How was she racist?

Courtney: P&P is mostly about marriage etc., but it is really an evaluation of the ideas of the culture of Austen's day. She suggests that marriage should involve mutual respect, and love, not just be based on financial benefits, although she thought those should be considered. She also shows the foolishness and dangers of being a flirt or a silly girl (which is what the younger Bennet girls are). The girls are at the age of marriage, so it is only natural that they would talk about who they would marry. :)

(Just so no one goes unwarned, the necklines on some of the girls' dresses in the movie are a bit low.)

The fact that they owned slaves was looked upon as fine, and it was made to seem that the slaves didn't mind being in bondage because of how kind Elsie and her family were. It's been a while since I've read the books/listened to the audiobooks (and don't ask me how I survived! JK…sorta :P), so I can't remember exactly, but my whole family (we listened to the audiobooks together) wasn't happy about the way the black people were portrayed (like they were a "lesser race").

I agree with 200% percent of what you said about P and P!! That's exactly what my family thought, and why we enjoyed it so much! :D

Yeah, I agree about the low necklines…that was completely unnecessary and annoying, but unfortunately many movies contain much worse.

Now I know that the memversers never get off topic on a thread, or I would say that this has turned into a debate on Pride and Prejudice and Elsie Dinsmore.

Haha! xP No, we never get off topic! XD

Do you have an opinion on either/both, since the subject has come up? xD

I wouldn't read either. I wanna have fun laughing at people's relationships (or a parody of one), I'll go to YouTube. I wanna see an annoying girl, I'll read Little House on the Prairie, and rage at Nellie Olson. :P

:P Well, not that I ever expected you to read P and P. I mean, I haven't read It myself (just watched the awsome movie)! But please DON'T read Elsie!! :P Blech!

Little House on the Prairie isn't annoying as far as I remember. But I haven't read it for a while, so…

Only Nellie Olson was, and more so in the show. :P

Don't worry. My mom used to play Elise Dinsmore audio books in the car for my little sis. We both agreed that it was…weird. :P

I don't even remember who Nellie Olson is. xD

Yeah, our family endured several months of listening to Elsie Dinsmore audiobooks…I think we still have them, but hopefully we'll ahem discard them soon.

BURN IT WITH _FIRE_!

But seriously…she's inhumanly perfect…and people were mean to her for no reason…it was just weird. :P

But isn't Pride and Prejudice mostly just about those young ladies talking about who they might marry and what guy they were going to see at the party that night? In other words, useless?

See Evie's answer.

Good idea! Too bad it's almost summer…. XD

Yup… and perfectly boring, and perfectly wimpy, and perfectly everything else annoying.

Haha! Except Jesus is awesome, and Elsie sucks.

cannot. cannot. cannot stand Elsie Dinsmore. Haven't read them in years, but I know I don't like them. She was way to perfect for 8 years old, I'm sorry.

True. But if we thought that Jesus was just a man like how we think that Elsie is just a girl, he might irritate us too.

But Jesus wasn't wimpy, lame, annoying, and completely incompetent in life.

She was way *too perfect in all the books (though thankfully I've only read a few, which was still too many).

Only read 2 of them. :P And then I was done. XD