The Choreography of a Coincidence

My wife is a big Anne of PEI fan, and having 3 sisters I grew up watching the films and hearing about the books (which I never touched, my Dad and I read tom clancy novels instead).

So anyways, April (my wife) and I talked about about Anne's "waxing poetic" as you called it. (actually, we talked about it alot on our honeymoon, part of which we spent on PEI). I always found Anne annoying when I was young, and found her even more annoying now.

But I guess April's point was there's something to being able to appreciate the silly pretentiousnes of Anne, that that element about her is a central conceit to the entire story which I hear is from youth all the way to old age. You get to see later on how "life" brings her down to earth a bit.

Anyways, I've certainly been able to watch them (A couple parts come on PBS a few weeks back) recently and not have the snot annoyed out of me.

I watched the movies repeatedly as a kid (mostly at the behest of my sister) and mainly recall the brillance of Richard Farnsworth as Matthew Cuthbert. Matthew's death still gets to me.

Though I see what you mean about Anne's pretentions, I think that's one of the things that's endearing about her...not that I'd want to be around someone like that in real life, but I still never get tired of that movie.

I think that Anne would have made a good companion for George Grant. She could have waxed poetic with all of the large words in his books.
"The tumultuous ardour of the man was his bain,
He never looked twice or read Mark Twain."

Anon.

That's the most sensible thing I've read all day.

The books were much better than the movies!! She is pretentious and absurd, but in the books it's just funny and silly and not as annoying.

Of all of Mongomery's heroines, Anne is one of my least favorite. There's also Emily, who is more complex than Anne. And Jane, who grew up away from PEI and who grew to love it. And Pat, who loves her home so much that she just doesn't want to leave it.

And my favorite Montgomery book is _The Blue Castle_, Montgomery's only book that was not set on PEI, and in which is really funny characterization, an interesting plot, and really pretty prose. She does a good job describing how pretty Canada is--and how much she loves Canada.

I don't want diamond sunburst or marble halls, I just want ... KABOOM!

I owned every book from that series and read and reread all of them until the pages were tattered and worn. I wanted red hair. I wanted a best friend named Diane. I wanted to spell my name ANN with an E. A few months ago I came across the first of the series and read it. I wish I would not have. "She waxes poetic a little much." Perfect way of putting it. I was so disappointed that I did not find it as wonderful as I did as a child. It is one of those sweet childhood memories that is now tainted because of my practical "get to the point because I have things to do" mind. I am ashamed it has come to this.

With all her flaws- I love Anne. I was completely taken in as a child and I still love the story as an adult. I've never been annoyed with Anne - only giggled at her "waxing poet" nature. I found it refreshingly different. I also rented the series about a month ago and only got to watch the first part. I need to go the Library and rent the second half- but, I've been holding off because I now have a late fee on my account because I kept the first part of the series too long. Oops!

My college roomate and I used to get together just to watch these shows...I can't imagine why now...but, we would have a box of tissues and a "pajama day" and spend hours watching. I have not seen these movies in many, many years. My daughter has NO interest at all. I can not imagine wanting to see these movies, let alone making a day of it!