Check yer Blindspots! Lucas Blogs About Emma
wow! much penguin very classics Everyone has literary blindspots. For example, I read The Forever War more than ten years before I read Starship Troopers (For the record, The Forever War is a much better novel, as far as I know it's not intended as a direct response to Starship Troopers , but it definitely answers the question: "What if Starship Troopers had been a good book?"). But you know, sometimes checking in on a book that you'd previously dismissed is rewarding, so it never hurts to give something a chance. Previously, I'd dismissed the work of Jane Austen as "rich people socializing" without ever reading it (okay, I'll own up to the fact that there was also more than a little casual sexism involved). But the trailer for this year's film adaptation looked pretty funny. I still haven't seen it, but I've read the book, so let's see how that turned out. Now, remember, the works of Jane Austen have definitely passed t...