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A review by carriedoodledoo
Manga Classics Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
4.0
HOORAY for being the only format of Sense and Sensibility I could get through. UGH. Not a single movie, not the Sea Monster version, not the original, could keep my attention or keep me from screaming in frustration.
Marianne, you twit! okay, so you don't have to marry Colonel Branson but you could at least not dissolve into crying jags, make public scenes, throw hissy fits, and make a general nuisance of yourself.
Almost everyone in the entire book was insufferable. I know that a very Jane Austen thing to do is to take a theme and hammer it to death, like with Pride and Prejudice, but it just didn't work here. It insults sensitive people and bores the sensible. Yes, we all know a "Marianne" character...but geez this thing was painful.
Also some of my favorite "hot" actors are older than Colonel Brandon, but then Colonel Brandon didn't probably have moisturizer.
Okay so. I enjoyed this as a manga, mostly because the format is so fitted to crazy drama stories and somehow that made it more palatable. (really Willoughby...really? you smarm, then you stink, then you really are a putrid lump of gross, then you try to redeem yourself for a bittersweet ending but just suck some more).
Probably never going to bother reading this in the book form. I like everything else of Jane Austen's, but I draw the line at this.
Marianne, you twit! okay, so you don't have to marry Colonel Branson but you could at least not dissolve into crying jags, make public scenes, throw hissy fits, and make a general nuisance of yourself.
Almost everyone in the entire book was insufferable. I know that a very Jane Austen thing to do is to take a theme and hammer it to death, like with Pride and Prejudice, but it just didn't work here. It insults sensitive people and bores the sensible. Yes, we all know a "Marianne" character...but geez this thing was painful.
Also some of my favorite "hot" actors are older than Colonel Brandon, but then Colonel Brandon didn't probably have moisturizer.
Okay so. I enjoyed this as a manga, mostly because the format is so fitted to crazy drama stories and somehow that made it more palatable. (really Willoughby...really? you smarm, then you stink, then you really are a putrid lump of gross, then you try to redeem yourself for a bittersweet ending but just suck some more).
Probably never going to bother reading this in the book form. I like everything else of Jane Austen's, but I draw the line at this.