Star58 wrote...
Jenova65 wrote...
Star58 wrote...
Oh yes, Persuasion is lovely! I also like Sense and Sensibility (both as a written work and Emma Thompson's screen version!)
The one I really don't like is Mansfield Park. Fanny Price *shudders* and Mary Crawford is so clearly Elizabeth being taken down a peg!
@Star58 Woohoo, another Austen purist
I also go through them about once a year, they along with Terry Pratchett books are the books I know I will keep re reading.
As for Persuasion, it was certainly her most passionate and mature read and I class it equally with P & P, I don't get when movie makers try to 'sexy it up', for a modern audience
I figure if you don't see how full of sex and passion her books are you aren't reading them/watching them right 
It is like the Shepard Kaiden love story was written by Austen and Jacob was written by 'Chesty McFlashboobs',
Oh we do think alike! My annual reads besides Jane Austen include Pratchett and Tolkien. Certainly Austen conveys a great deal of longing and passion in her books and there's so much more potential for romantic disaster from external influence. 
The game relationships I tend to enjoy most always involve the characters getting to know each other through intelligent humor as well as more serious conversations. I loved the fact that Shep and Kaidan got to know each other in ME1 whether or not they ended up as LIs. If anything I would have enjoyed a bit more humor between them (similar to Carth-Revan or Alistair-PC exchanges). I'm hoping that in ME 3 the romances will not only return our original LIs, but won't cheapen the relationships a la the ME 2 slam-bam romances. I really want a great deal more conversation and some humor!
Revan: Do you want to talk?
Carth: Oh you can tell, can you?
Revan: It doesn't take Jedi powers to read a man, believe me.
Carth: Oh, yeah? Well listen, beautiful, I don't need to take this abuse. I get enough female Jedi bashing from Bastila, thank you very much.
Revan: You love the attention, admit it.
Carth: You think so? I could probably get the same kind of attention from a blaster rifle.
Revan: Oh, I think there's things I can do that a blaster can't.
Carth: Now that I'd like to see.
Did someone say Carth/Revan, my second favorite OTP?