Are you a Nazi? Let Jane Austen fix that for you.

[Riklet]

This judge sounds like an absolute bellend. what a surprise.

 

[RubyToogood]

you're just wrong. but i'm not up for a fight about it just now.

No but you could explain your view? It's unfamiliar to me.

 

[bimble]

No but you could explain your view? It's unfamiliar to me.

Got to go to sleep instead, might come back to it tho , sorry.

 

[cyril_smear]

Dostoevszky is more of a crime

Were we talking earlier? About Dostoevsky? Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, born 11 November 1821 – died 9 February 1881?
Just interested in him being exiled in Siberia four years. All it is is that he was a member of a secret political party, and they put him in a Siberian labour camp for four years, so, ya know.

 

[two sheds]

Were we talking earlier? About Dostoevsky? Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, born 11 November 1821 – died 9 February 1881?
Just interested in him being exiled in Siberia four years. All it is is that he was a member of a secret political party, and they put him in a Siberian labour camp for four years, so, ya know.

yes sorry I was playing on the crime and punishment gag that SpookyFrank did much more subtly and so nobody including myself noticed

 

[two sheds]

Better also if he'd been told to complete an antisemitism course, or view images/videos of liberation of the camps .

 

[hitmouse]

i don't see how. i've cheerfully read books by lots of other women writers, eg marie correlli, george eliot, dorothy macardle and c.l. moore. the only three authors i have no interest in reading are virginia woolf and jane austen and thomas hardy. and it's got nothing to do with two of them being women.

But is it cos one of them's Chinese?[/reference to incredibly obscure literary drama from about seven years ago]

 

[Pickman's model]

But is it cos one of them's Chinese?[/reference to incredibly obscure literary drama from about seven years ago]

No

 

[SpookyFrank]

i don't see how. i've cheerfully read books by lots of other women writers, eg marie correlli, george eliot, dorothy macardle and c.l. moore. the only three authors i have no interest in reading are virginia woolf and jane austen and thomas hardy. and it's got nothing to do with two of them being women.

Thomas Hardy is just pre-industrial Eastenders. Undifferentiated misery and hopelessness.

 

[DaveCinzano]

EastEnders is just post-industrial Thomas Hardy. Undifferentiated misery and hopelessness.

FTFY

 

[A380]

Don’t spoil a good rage inducing story with facts you monster.

 

[Raheem]

I think we can all agree it was by-the-book and not crazy in the slightest, except for the add-on of something completely bonkers and not at all by-the-book.

 

[A380]

Given Austin was writing in the middle of a world war and as the industrial revolution was just starting to kick of it’s a amazing how much of a vacum she writes in, as RubyToogood says, , but she remains very funny. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies ( the film I haven’t read the book) is really funny but hilarious if you know the book.

Thomas Hardy paints great pictures of life at the turn of the 19th century but again as SpookyFrank says is really fucking depressing especially for women characters…

Dickins just too long with sentences that just meander all over the shop.

It is interesting to read things from the past as it rubs your nose in the fact that the world we are in isn’t the only one and aloe that people don’t change much.

 

[two sheds]

Thomas Hardy paints great pictures of life at the turn of the 19th century but again as SpookyFrank says is really fucking depressing especially for women characters…

In the couple I read I was continually saying to the women characters: "no, you don't want to do that .... no you really don't want to do that"

 

[Raheem]

It's quite impressive how this thread turned so decisively into "What 19th century fiction would you recommend to a convicted Nazi".

 

[A380]

In the couple I read I was continually saying to the women characters: "no, you don't want to do that .... no you really don't want to do that"

What, like ‘don’t tell your eldest child there are too many people in the family before leaving them to babysit with a load of rope to hand’.

 

[Pickman's model]

None of these books can be as depressing as George Gissing's 'the nether world'

 

[krtek a houby]

That Noonan book about decorators should be mandatory reading

 

[Santino]

Good work, guys - women shouldn't write about the worlds they inhabit. They must pay attention to the topics men think are important.

 

[hitmouse]

It's quite impressive how this thread turned so decisively into "What 19th century fiction would you recommend to a convicted Nazi".

OK, but what 19th century fiction would you recommend to a convicted Nazi?

 

[Pickman's model]

OK, but what 19th century fiction would you recommend to a convicted Nazi?

What's the sentence? You wouldn't suggest eg remembrance of times past to someone getting hanged in the morning

 

[hitmouse]

What's the sentence? You wouldn't suggest eg remembrance of times past to someone getting hanged in the morning

I suppose the other question is, can anyone think of much Victorian literature likely to be more counter-productive than a custodial sentence?

 

[maomao]

I read almost all of Hardy's novels when I was a depressed 17 year old. I wouldn't recommend them (except Jude and maybe Tess) but they're not as bad as his poetry.

 

[A380]

What's the sentence? You wouldn't suggest eg remembrance of times past to someone getting hanged in the morning

Prison breaks for dummies.

 

[maomao]

OK, but what 19th century fiction would you recommend to a convicted Nazi?

Silas Marner, not too long, satisfying ending.

 

[maomao]

Or HG Wells Time Machine.

 

[nogojones]

Silas Marner, not too long, satisfying ending.

I had to do this for CSE English and I blame it for the grade 3 I got. Starts OK, finishes OK, but from what I recall Silas spends 100 pages in the middle just fucking weaving.

I'm not all that about Jane Austin either. Read Pride and Predudice a couple of years ago and it was pretty dull. It picked up towards the end, but I'm not in a rush to read any of her others. I might give Middlemarch a go after reading this thread though.

 

[killer b]

Emma is really good, better than P&P imo

 

[Pickman's model]

surprised the judge didn't recommend something in the crime line like sherlock holmes or wilkie collins' fine 'the moonstone'

 

[maomao]

from what I recall Silas spends 100 pages in the middle just fucking weaving.

Well he was a weaver tbf, what do you think he should have been doing?