"Girls, have you got nice pocket-handkerchiefs?*

[bunnyjadwiga]

Listening to it on CD audiobook, I began to think. Almost everyone who got that far admits to crying when Beth dies; but do other people cry when Jo rejects Laurie?
Also, do you think the books will endure as classics for the present generation, or will they get tossed out, along with the Little House books, by Princess Diaries fans?

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[fiannaharpar.livejournal.com]

"Little Women" is one of the books that I can't wait to read my daughter, so i'm not sure if it will be thrown aside. Sometimes it's exposure that really makes something interesting and timeless.

But, I truly don't know.

[anastasiav.livejournal.com]

Also, do you think the books will endure as classics for the present generation, or will they get tossed out, along with the Little House books, by Princess Diaries fans?

Its possible I have odd friends, but I know about a half dozen girls who are "of an age" to read both Little House and Princess Diaries. Some like both, but I know of none who have 'tossed out' Little House.

But perhaps you librarians know something we don't....

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

I read Little House over and over and over and over... I'm hoping that readers will just read the new stuff in addition to the old, not instead of.

I watched the Princess Diaries movie last night, actually, with a sort of guilty, girly pleasure. I don't know why I liked it so much. ::blush:: Maybe it's because I have a fever.

[tattycat.livejournal.com]

Almost everyone who got that far admits to crying when Beth dies; but do other people cry when Jo rejects Laurie?

Every single time.

[ladypeyton.livejournal.com]

It's up to the parents. I know Laura will read the clssics and any modern popular books if I have anything to say about it (and I will...)

[kandy-elizabet.livejournal.com]

First, I'm having trouble with "who got that far"... who doesn't get that far? Hmph.

Yes...when Jo rejects Laurie, when Amy turns up and says Aunt March is taking me to Europe, when Beth gets the piano, when Father comes home.... I tend to have soggy copies of that book. But then, I cry at happy too, so there you go.

No, wait Beth and the piano... that's when watching the movie, somehow that one doesn't hit me as hard when reading the book.

Oh, and I cry a lot in Little Men and Jo's Boys, too... so there.