"It is universally acknowledged , that a single man in possesion of a good fortune, must be in want of a good wife."
Usually, when a person sees a movie about a book and then reads the book, or vice versa, they tend to be dissappointed with one or the other. And, usually, I would tend to agree (and so would many Harry Potter fans, like this awkward kid). However, in this case, I believe that both the movie of Pride and Prejudice (the recent one with Keira Knightly, not the one with Colin Firth because I don't have the time to watch a 300 minute long movie) and Jane Austen's original masterpiece are, so far, brilliant in their own ways. I saw the movie first, and I think that instead of impeding my progress of the book or stirring criticisms of the movie, reading the book now has given me a deeper understanding of the movie and has allowed me to already have a set cast of characters and the world they live in visualized in my mind. Which, to me at least, is helpful because I usually have trouble seeing the characters and their surroundings in my mind if the author is not super-duper descriptive (which, other than saying Jane and Elizabeth are beautiful and Bingley and Darcy are attractive, Austen does not help the reader much on this subject). Austen, instead, focuses more on describing her characters personalities and thoughts, mostly Elizabeth's. This I think shows that Austen's characters themselves, while they acknowledge physical beauty, are more conscious of intellectual qualities (well, except Mrs. Bennet...). So far, I am in love with this book [=
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