Looooved the BBC P&P and I’m a big fan of the BJ movies as well as Clueless. And Emma is fabulous. I don’t know if I’ve seen Northanger Abbey but I need to because I really enjoyed the book. Wasn’t the Bollywood P&P with Aishwarya Rai? So fun!

Keira, I totally loved Clueless, LOL, especially the death by liposuction throwaway line. That ensures I’ll keep my fat forever. I can’t see me dragging my husband to Becoming Jane, but maybe I’ll catch it on DVD.

I was very disappointed when I first heard that they’d cast Hathaway in “Becoming Jane.” But of course I’m going to go see the movie.

As far as Austen-like movies go, I liked “Clueless” best.

I’m not sure what it was that Twain was so upset about about Jane. I get the feeling that it went far beyond her prose.

I always look forward to whatever Janga has to say wherever she says it. I support all the calls for Janga pontification specials (online classes, blogs, what-have-yous).

NancyJ, maybe you’re right, and Bronte was tremendously jealous of Austen! I’ve no idea what Twain’s problem was, though, especially as he supposedly had this odd attraction to young girls, and Austen is loaded with marvelous insights about the female psyche.

Janga, you’re excused.

Bernardl, I wish I’d read Austen in college. To tell you the truth, I don’t remember much about what I read, and I was an English major! Germinal and Magic Mountain are still kicking around somewhere, though.

Irish, you also qualify for the Jane Austen action figure!

Tessa—the next Jane Austen!!! But being the present Tessa Dare is good enough, I think.

I love the movies and love the stories they tell. I’m afraid you’ll have to fight me for Col. Brandon, though, Hellion! I know this sounds sacrilegious to all those Jane followers out there, but I really wouldn’t have minded a good old fashioned hollywood sequel with Alan and Kate!

Saint Jane is an object of veneration for me. I’d like to brain Mark Twain with his own femur for saying what he did. My fave book is, of course, P&P, followed closely by Emma. I love all the movie adaptations for different reasons.

As for sequels … well as a sometime JA fanfic writer, I must say I heartily endorse them. Anyone who wants links to JA fanfic – the nice and the naughty – can email me! (But I won’t tell you my JAFF pen name)

Ely, Lost in Austen sounds like great fun.

Oh and there’s this book coming out next month I believe called: Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (Paperback)—-

(from amazon.com): Bringing together Jane Austen’s most beloved characters and storylines-a clever, playful, interactive, and highly entertaining approach to the wildly popular novels in which you, the reader, decide the outcome.
Name: Elizabeth Bennet. Mission: To marry both prudently and for love. How? It’s entirely up to the reader.

The journey begins in Pride and Prejudice but quickly takes off on a whimsical Austen adventure of the reader’s own creation. A series of choices leads the reader into the plots and romances of Austen’s other works. Choosing to walk home from Netherfield Hall means falling into Sense and Sensibility and the infatuating spell of Mr. Willoughby. Accepting an invitation to Bath leads to Northanger Abbey and the beguiling Henry Tilney. And just where will Emma’s Mr. Knightley fit in to the quest for a worthy husband? It’s all up to the reader.

A labyrinth of love and lies, scandals and scoundrels, misfortunes and marriages, Lost in Austen will delight and challenge any Austen lover.