Who shares my love of Anna Karenina? LHC?

[candyapple]

I did not like Anna Karenina. I think Lucy said once that was fitting. Whatevs.

[alleycat]

I love Anna Karenina. On the one hand, I loved P&P and Atonement and they are by the same director. On the other hand, KK & Jude Law. I'm going to see it no matter what though.

[thebuddhagouda]

Dude, Keira Knightley is not remotely what I pictured in my head for Anna.

I still have not seen the Keira Knightley PnP because that is MAH FAVRIT BERK, and I cannot bring myself to do it. I know I would hate it.

[margotmacomber]

I can see Keira Knightly as Anna but and the other dude as Vronsky, but I'm having trouble seeing Jude Law as Alexey Karenin.

I will definitely watch it.

[looseseal]

LHC, I also do not care for Keira Knightley. I love Anna Karenina, but condensing it down to just a love story seems blech to me. I have never seen any TV or movie versions of it, though, so I may watch it.

[litebright]

I read it for the first time a few months ago. It was interesting, but kind of all over the place.

It reminded me of Anton Chekov's plays: We are Russian, and miserable, with lots of complicated relationships, blahblahblah.

I have a hard time seeing Kiera Knightley as Anna. I know her husband was way older, but I thought of her as older than late 20s, old enough to be cougar-ish. KK just doesn't seem like she'd have the ... presence? Gravitas?

[Deleted]

Adore me some Anna Karenina. I'll see this anyway and probably be one of those literary snobs the whole time.

[thebuddhagouda]

I often wish the entire country of Russia had had at least one good editor in the 1900s. Cut out some of the middle, people!

I love the book though, and it's one of the greatest opening sentences in all of literature.

[thebuddhagouda]

Jul 19, 2012 9:47:02 GMT -5 toledo said:

Jul 19, 2012 9:45:44 GMT -5 thebuddhagouda said:

I often wish the entire country of Russia had had at least one good editor in the 1900s. Cut out some of the middle, people!

The hell you say!

Have you read Crime and Punishment? It totally needed to be about 200 pages shorter.

[thebuddhagouda]

So, I will conclude that you have brainwashed and forced to like them

I love the stories. I just get bogged down in the middle. They are still far superior to the worst book ever written, Tess of the D'Ubervilles. It's not Russian, so if you tell me you love that one, we may have to swear to be enemies forever.

[thebuddhagouda]

Woohoo!! And save yourself the headbashing. Don't read it. EVER.

[jane6672]

Jul 19, 2012 10:04:12 GMT -5 thebuddhagouda said:

Jul 19, 2012 9:47:02 GMT -5 toledo said:

The hell you say!

Have you read Crime and Punishment? It totally needed to be about 200 pages shorter.

I will cut you with a rusty spork.

[Deleted]

I've always wanted to read it but the sheer length of it scares me a little. This thread is making me want to pick it up though.

[Deleted]

I looooooooove Anna Karenina.

And as much as I want to hate Keira Knightley, I love her movies. Except Domino, Domino can burn in a fire for all eternity except for the hot dude that was in it. He can stay.

I also try to hate Jude Law but I often like the job he does in his movies. So I'm pretty much dying to see this movie even if I'm sure Vronsky will be about as compelling, attractive, and fierce as Hayden Christiansen's Anakin Skywalker.