Lol. I think you read my opinion of Jane Eyre yesterday, based on your comment.
Honestly, I don't despise the Brontë sisters with the ferocity that I hate Austen. That being said, I find their books very difficult to get through, and it's more than just the era in which they were written because I have read classics by other writers and it is not so painful. So, having said I despise them less, I still have little desire to read them...
(I should know who Kate Winslet is, right? I know she is an actress -- or actor, as all actors now prefer to be called. Do I get part marks for that? Probably not.)
Thank you for the comment. You literally did make me laugh out loud.
(My sister sarcastically says, "lol" in real life when something is not particularly funny. Why you suddenly need to know this...)
With regards to fiction, I am not well read simply by choice. My fictional days ended aged 11 when I'd finished the complete works of Enid Blyton. I was ruined.
No, my hatred of anything that involves 'period' in its description, the words 'classic' or most anything both written or visual where people wear costumes more than about 50 years old stems from a simple hatred of many people who utter these words just to create an impression of intellectualism.
You can, in part also thank Mr Twain for this and my favourite quote ever which is when he talks about needing to question yourself deeply if you find yourself on the side of the majority!
Possibly illogical, possibly down to any manner of autistic spectrum brain farts which wasn't a 'thing' when I was at school, I do feel some remorse for my shallow persona but am quite sure a dead Mr Dickens is too dead to care
As for the actors, anyone British that was part of the 'Oxford Footlights' ensemble will simply be characters for ridicule with the absolute exception of Stephen Fry in my opinion.
As I write this, I suddenly remember exceptions. I read A Catcher in the Rye at 15 as I felt I might have something in common with Holden. I did. And I watched The Age of Innocence which starred Winona Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer who at the time would have been my dream fantasy threesome, despite its historical setting.
I shall leave you now as I go and check Netflix...
Thank you once more for writing something worth reading in this cesspool of bubblegum mediocrity and enjoy the rest of your weekend.