If you don't like it when I bash Pride and Prejudice, don't read this.

I like Anna Karenina. (Given I've only read 51 pages, but I enjoyed them.)

And it sort of reminds me of Pride and Prejudice, in that they're society people all about marrying off their daughters, with the difference being one tiny but ever so crucial detail: I CARE ABOUT THE CHARACTERS!

By which I mean that if half the poeple in P&P had been suddenly struck dead by a freak lightening storm or something, I probably would have applauded.

Whereas in AK, I want Lenin to be happy, poor guy, and I want to know if Vronsky really loves Kitty or if he's just playing with her. And I'd be sad if any of them got struck by lightening.

Yeah. So Sirius has good taste in books.



P.S. If that last sentence doesn't make any sense to you, then you didn't see my away message which says the following: Reading Anna Karenina. Actually, I'm excited. Sirius has read this book after all.
"Sirius was sitting in a window seat near the back of the room. He had Anna Karenina on his lap, held open with both hands."
How do you explain to your teacher that you already know how the book ends becasue you read it in a fan ficiton that also involved passionate shagging? In fact, that a discussion about Anna led to the passionate shagging? That could be quite the conversation.

Also from that fic: "Sirius just didn't seem like the Pride and Prejudice type."

Like I said, Sirius has good taste.