Friday, March 07, 2008
This is just WRONG!!
Persuasion. Jane Austen, ::Sigh:: The joy and wonder of Regency-era Britain, in the hands of a master.
So, how the effing Eff do you explain this?
Are those people at Kindle on crack? What the heck are they smoking over there?
Kindle Employee #1: Like, hey, Jane Austen lived a long time ago, right?
KE#2: Right!
KE#1: And those Impressionist painters, they painted a long time ago, too, right?
KE#2: Righty-oh!
KE3#: (Looking over shoulder of KE#1) Hey, Persuasion!! Isn't Captain Wentworth a dream? I just love me some sexy Royal Navy Officers.
KE#1: Who's Captain Wentworth?
KE#2: Royal Navy?
KE#1: The guy in this picture is wearing a straw hat! Awesome! All done.
This is just sacrilege.
So, how the effing Eff do you explain this?
Are those people at Kindle on crack? What the heck are they smoking over there?
Kindle Employee #1: Like, hey, Jane Austen lived a long time ago, right?
KE#2: Right!
KE#1: And those Impressionist painters, they painted a long time ago, too, right?
KE#2: Righty-oh!
KE3#: (Looking over shoulder of KE#1) Hey, Persuasion!! Isn't Captain Wentworth a dream? I just love me some sexy Royal Navy Officers.
KE#1: Who's Captain Wentworth?
KE#2: Royal Navy?
KE#1: The guy in this picture is wearing a straw hat! Awesome! All done.
This is just sacrilege.
Labels: Book Covers, Rant
posted by Carolyn @ 3/07/2008 07:10:00 PM Permalink
Comments:
It's a bit like the costumes in the Lawrence Olivier/Greet Garson movie of "Pride & Prejudice", all Victorian dresses with big skirts and drooping sleeves. It's as if everything that happened more than 100 years ago is the same. You'd think that the maker of a 21st C electronic gadget would know how to use 21st C technology to get it right. But then, you'd think wrong, as they clearly didn't.
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