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The Far Side of the World (Vol. Book 10) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) | Patrick O'Brian

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Book number TEN of the Aubrey/Maturin series. Which this title is used for the MOVIE that starred Russell Crowe.

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Ruthiella I wish that movie had been more successful! It was so well cast and i‘d‘ve liked to have seen more adaptations with Crowe and Bettany. 14mo

Bklover I remember that movie! I have a friend who reads that whole series every few years. 14mo

CrowCAH @Ruthiella agree on both accounts!!! 14mo

CrowCAH @Bklover that‘s a huge commitment to read all of them! I‘m slowly making my way through them. 14mo

Klou Awesome! 13mo

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Andrea313

Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen

All of the #PemberLittens describing Caroline Bingley. (Seriously, that letter is cold-blooded!) #chapteraday #10ThingsIHateAboutYou

AkashaVampie Love that movie. Makes me sad tho becuz of Heath Ledger 4y

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GingerAntics

The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare

Okay, officially, this didn‘t make me hate the movie at all. In fact, I love the movie even more now. The movie makes this play look like rubbish. Wait, it‘s actually the play that makes the play look like rubbish. Shakes wasn‘t in his stride yet with this one, I think. So much better material later in his career I think. Not sure what happened here. Just...eh. #shakespeare #tamingoftheshrew #10ThingsIHateAboutYou #shakespearereadalong

readinginthedark Good points! And I love this movie! 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Yea, I love this movie too. 6y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @readinginthedark if you get freeform it‘s supposed to be on this weekend again (or at least that‘s the suggestion) 6y

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readinginthedark I own it on DVD! 😆❤ 6y

GingerAntics @readinginthedark YES!!! I used to have it on DVD but it went missing. I hope whoever‘s house it lives in now is enjoying it. 6y

TheBookHippie I agree with everything you said!!!!!! So much love for it all!!! 6y

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GingerAntics

The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare

so-so

Sooo, at the end did Shakespeare just get tired and decide to feck it all? That ending was a totally cop out/disappointment. I did enjoy the beginning of the play. The first act was good. It sort of went downhill after that. I really do feel like Shakespeare called in that ending. This play did not make me dislike 10 Things as I feared; it actually made me love it more. #shakespeare #tamingoftheshrew #10ThingsIHateAboutYou

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa It certainly will be interesting to see what the rest of the group thinks about this. Hm. Wow. I can‘t even begin to figure out how many stars to give this thing. That was a total non-ending ending. Wow. (edited) 6y

Rachbb3 The ending was disappointing. 6y

GingerAntics @Rachbb3 I ended up reading the intro stuff last, so I do have a slightly different view of this ending, but I‘m still not a fan. K‘s speech could be sarcasm, which makes me like her speech more, but not the abrupt ending. 6y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa And why did we never go back to the prologue players watching the play and pulling their own little mean joke? 6y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa no idea. It‘s like they just didn‘t exist anymore. Something I read suggested it may have been because they didn‘t have enough actors, so those actors did other parts later so they couldn‘t go back to it. Seems weird you couldn‘t just add something in, though. The prologue has nothing to do with the rest of the play. It just barely ties in. If it wasn‘t there, would anything really change about the play, really?! 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @GingerAntics It definitely explains why the prologue was new to me reading it for the first time, since every version I‘ve ever seen basically just skipped that altogether. 6y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I could see just cutting it out of a production. It would allow more time for other parts that a director might want to explore further. 6y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @GingerAntics The few times it‘s even sort of referred to, is in the idea of others watching the play as it starts, but the whole playing with the local drunk is usually left out. 6y

GingerAntics @Riveted_Reader_Melissa that is too bad, I find anytime you can play with the local drunk in theatre is just awesome!!! lol 6y

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GingerAntics

The Taming of the Shrew | William Shakespeare

Love seeing some of my favourite lines from the movie in the book (so really lines from the book that made it into the movie).

What is with all the men trying to plan out the women‘s lives? Sadly, this still happens quite frequently. At least in Shakespeare‘s day it was customary. Now, we know it‘s inappropriate and out of line. What are people‘s excuses today?

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GingerAntics @merelybookish @CoffeeNBooks @cocomass @TheBookHippie @CSeydel @wanderinglynn @Lcsmcat @Rachbb3 @InLibrisVeritas @batsy @Bookishgal71 @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BookishBelle @JennAndrew @Gezemice @BiblioLitten @KatieanneF @readinginthedark @Jess_Read_This 6y

TheBookHippie This is GREAT!!!!!! Men ...entitlement, privilege, upbringing and currently even the administration in the USA promote it's just fine 🤦🏽‍♀️ 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie oh yeah...it‘s everywhere. It‘s amazing how many guys refuse to take no for an answer, no matter how many times you tell them no. I have one guy (a student at the jr college I work at) who doesn‘t get that I would lose my job for dating him. He still follows me across campus, around the local Walmart. It‘s creepy. So not into male entitlement. (Yet, the school I work at has a “Male Advancement Program.” I will never get that.) 6y

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TheBookHippie @GingerAntics OYE. Just no. Nope. Ugh. 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie Yup. It‘s madness. Never mind he‘s probably too young for me. 🙄 I know it will be great when I‘m 50, but looking 10-15 years younger than I really am at 32 is a pain. lol 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics BAHAHAHA TRUST ME!!!! It will. Look at my post today . People think I'm 35 or 40 my 28 year old daughter doesn't find it amusing 🤣😬🙌🏻 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie lol My mother just turned 61 this past week. She looks like she‘s my age. People think we‘re sisters all the time. No one ever believes she‘s actually in her 60s. 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics sisters is what we get too!!!! Ha!!! 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie you have a 28 year old? Damn!!! I see my future. I honestly thought you had an elementary - MAYBE Jr High - student. 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie Do you two look just alike too? lol We‘re MN Twins fans, and when we wear twins t-shirts that say “twins” on them, people ask if we‘re twins. It‘s crazy. 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics also have 4 year old grandson and for fun instead of menopause I had a baby ...so I have an 11 year old son :) I have never acted my age and I don't intend too. 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics I'll find a pic 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie is there an actual point to acting one‘s age? ROTFL I love the way you put that “instead of menopause I had a baby.” 6y

TheBookHippie @GingerAntics yes on all the charts " geriatric mother" ??‍♀️ I kept saying yes old people have sex...."old" pffft 6y

merelybookish Yes, that movie is pretty faithful to the play! And yes, men. 🙄 6y

GingerAntics @merelybookish I‘m surprised, so far, how faithful they‘ve been. Maybe I‘ll like this play after all. 6y

GingerAntics @TheBookHippie lol yeah, I heard on a news show that any pregnancy starting at 38 was a geriatric pregnancy. lol I guess I better get on it. I need a man and a PhD before I have a kid. I better get to work. lol 6y

Jess_Read_This The entire time I‘ve been reading this, I see scenes from the movie in my head!! 6y

GingerAntics @Jess_Read_This oh thank god it‘s not just me!!! lol 6y

Jess_Read_This @GingerAntics lol!! Now I want to dig out my dvd copy and watch it! 6y

GingerAntics @Jess_Read_This I think I‘m waiting until we‘re done. I think. lol 6y

Jess_Read_This @GingerAntics lol!! I have been debating the same thing. I‘ll probably end up watching it a few times and re-mourn Heath Ledger all over again. 6y

GingerAntics @Jess_Read_This yeah, anytime I see him in a movie it‘s like he‘s gone all over again. It‘s weird, I can remember every little thing about the moment I found out he‘d died. 6y

Jess_Read_This @GingerAntics Same. It‘s only this movie of his too that does it to me. 6y

GingerAntics @Jess_Read_This really? The first movie with him in it that I saw after he died was The Knight‘s Tale. That one always gets me, too. I‘ve never been able to watch BBM after that. I know I‘ll just cry through the whole thing. 6y

Jess_Read_This @GingerAntics Yeah, it‘s so strange. I can watch Knight‘s Tale and BBM and am really sad... but Ten Things I Hate About you just guts me. Maybe because it was always a special movie for me.. I don‘t know. 6y

GingerAntics @Jess_Read_This the more I think about it, 10 Things was hard at first, but that seems to be the movie that gets shown on TV the most, so I‘ve kind of been desensitised to it. Knights Tale gets shown a lot, too. So that may be why. I‘ve just sort of gotten used to those two. BBM always made me sad anyway, so now it‘s just double. I haven‘t watched it since he died. 6y

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