I have not yet had the chance, but I will be off to read this as soon as I finish commenting on one thing I find very funny about this.
Looking at your poll is like looking at an exit poll for people who've just finished reading the Austen novels. Darcy v. Catherine is in the lead followed by more of P&P, a little S&S, Persuasion (my personal fav, though I voted D v C) and Emma.
I think it's the ending that puts readers off. With P&P and S&S you can see the love start to build between the couples. In Emma and Per you rejoice when, seemingly out of nowhere, the men Emma and Anne love love them back.
But Fanny... You don't see how she comes to love Edmund as anything more the the boy who's been kind to her, and you don't get to find out how Edmund got over Mary and fell for Fanny.
Somewhere in the bowels of my hard drive lurks the outline for a story where Fanny gets a much better outcome then what the book said.
I'd love to see Lady C bitch at Darcy. There's opportunity for comedy there, as well as the realization that Darcy's family isn't much better than Lizzie's...
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Since I'm only interested in P&P fanfiction, I can't advise about the other novels. So, Gardiner it is. ;)
Good luck with your entry, Naomi. :)
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Looking at your poll is like looking at an exit poll for people who've just finished reading the Austen novels. Darcy v. Catherine is in the lead followed by more of P&P, a little S&S, Persuasion (my personal fav, though I voted D v C) and Emma.
And as always, Fanny gets no love.
Everyone still hates Fanny.
lulz.
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I think it's the ending that puts readers off. With P&P and S&S you can see the love start to build between the couples. In Emma and Per you rejoice when, seemingly out of nowhere, the men Emma and Anne love love them back.
But Fanny... You don't see how she comes to love Edmund as anything more the the boy who's been kind to her, and you don't get to find out how Edmund got over Mary and fell for Fanny.
Somewhere in the bowels of my hard drive lurks the outline for a story where Fanny gets a much better outcome then what the book said.
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