Comments on: Slash fiction

By: Andrew Wyld

Andrew Wyld — Fri, 29 Aug 2003 13:53:43 +0000

Coincidentally, only today I found this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/068487265X/ref=lm_lb_3/202-5357645-0255065 Although it probably isn’t a coincidence, given that it inspired the spot of googling that brought me here.

By: Mustayne

Mustayne — Mon, 21 Jul 2003 09:50:42 +0000

Pirates of the Caribbean, I admit, might have made for a really good adult novel. Think about it: What if Elizabeth Swan had run off with Captain Jack Sparrow, instead of sticking with Will Turner?? Anyone who’s seen the movie should take note of the body language going on between the characters of Miss Swan and Captain Sparrow. Not only did she NOT look or act terrified when he grabbed hold of her before he made his escape (after he saved her from drowning) but she leaned against him when they were marooned on the small island (wheather rum was a good excuse or not). If that’s not a signal, what is? I can see it now: “The rum spent to the last drop, they turned their attentions to each other. Slipping her free of her bodice, Captain Sparrow gently took Miss Swan’s face into his hands, and bestowed upon her a kiss which made her heart beat faster, her head swim, and her fears melted away. For here was a man who knew what pleasures a woman wanted.”

By: Ruth Feingold

Ruth Feingold — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:11:47 +0000

Some humour book I read years ago—I think one that summarized major works of literature in limericks or other short verse—had a great spoof cover for a “Jane Austen” novel: “Pride and and Extreme Prejudice” (a name that has since been stolen for an unrelated film). The cover illustration was a very typical Signet paperback-style oil of a late 18th-century woman, modified to show her holding a huge gun. The pull-out quote was something on the order of, “I would be most gratified, Lady Catherine, if you would go ahead and make my day.” I’ve botched it in transmission, but it was really good…

By: Richard Bayley

Richard Bayley — Mon, 14 Jul 2003 14:17:32 +0000

A few years ago, a BBC comedy show pilot had a sketch featuring a spoof Jane Austen makeover inspired by “Trainspotting”….”Smack and Sensibility”. (Cue the familiar rumble of Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life”, and picture Lizzie and Mr Darcy shooting up in a multi-storey car park…)

By: Fontana Labs

Fontana Labs — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:51:30 +0000

At least you didn’t call it “Mansfield Pork.”

By: Chris Bertram

Chris Bertram — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 20:05:53 +0000

I’m available for Mansfield Park Uncovered, for an appropriate fee.

By: jam

jam — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 19:32:41 +0000

Persuasion, people, Persuasion. After the book's end, Anne and the Captain sail off into the sunset to turn pirate and their first captive is Elizabeth. No?

By: Kate Nepveu

Kate Nepveu — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:58:30 +0000

Madeline Robins’ Point of Honour opens: “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Fallen Woman of good family must, soon or late, descend to whoredom.” I haven’t read it yet (an omission I must correct), but I liked her previous sf novel The Stone War quite a bit.

By: Gideon Strauss

Gideon Strauss — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:56:55 +0000

I am tryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyying not to find this funny. Viva Jane!

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:29:09 +0000

Pride and Prejudice was sexy enough to cause me trouble (unfortunately merely academic)in junior high school. I was assigned the book but could not get through it and turned to a plot summary. However, I couldn’t make myself believe the summary enough to rely on it on the exam because it (accurately) described Lydia running off with Wickham. Based on the first few chapters, I could not believe that anything as dramatic, or sexually fraught, as this could be happening in Pride and Prejudice. (I was again assigned the book in high school, at which time I loved it, but construed it as essentially a book about economics, a legitimate, albeit partial, perspective.)

By: Kieran Healy

Kieran Healy — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:52:24 +0000

Or take a different novel: Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her, except a congeries of cutlass-waving undead pirates and a cyborg sent from the future with the single-minded task of tracking her down and killing her.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Fri, 11 Jul 2003 17:37:05 +0000

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a blow job”. I’m sorry. I’ll get my coat.