Tonight after we watched a totally depressing Mexican movie called Sangre De Mi Sangre, I had the urge to reread Little Women. The two are not remotely related. When I was on IMDB earlier today looking to see what other movies Christian Bale had been in, I saw that he played Laurie in Little Women years ago. How I did not know this, I don't know. Anyway, that reminded me of how much I loved Jo/Laurie when I read Little Women eons ago. They were probably my first ship, as I've mentioned before. I really, really want to reread LW even though I know it will gut me all over again because Alcott has Jo marry that stupid professor, and Laurie winds up with Amy, but I don't think I own the book, and the bookstore's closed. So I went looking for Jo/Laurie fanfiction, and reading some of it made me tear up.
Yes, I am a total sap. If anyone knows of someone who writes good Jo/Laurie, please tell me.
ETA: I just found Little Women online at Project Gutenberg. *weeps*
You might consider having some tissues handy.
There's Little Women fanfiction?
Whilst pg with Joe I weeped over a dog adoption advert, at the old mutt left out in the rain, and stopped watching ER after sobbing for three hours over a horrible episode where some children fell from a window.
Pregnancy makes you cry, it's official!
And it didn't even occur to me that the weepiness could be a side effect of pregnancy! *blinks* That makes sense, as I generally don't cry very often. And that ER episode sounds horrid. I suppose I'll have to be more careful about what I read and watch for the next little while... *g*
[Scene: Central Perk, Chandler is watching Joey read Little Women, Ross is also there.]
Joey: These little women. Wow!
Chandler: Your liking it, huh?
Joey: Oh yeah! Amy just burned Jo’s manuscript. I don’t see how he could ever forgive her.
Ross: Umm, Jo’s a girl, it’s short for Josephine.
Joey: But Jo’s got a crush on Laurie. (Ross nods his head) Oh. You mean it’s like a girl-girl thing? ‘Cause that is the one thing missing from The Shining.
Chandler: No, actually Laurie’s a boy.
Joey: No wonder Rachel had to read this so many times.
LOL.
Actually, Little Women wasn't the only Alcott book that made me mad. I very much enjoyed the sequel, Little Men (despite Jo and Laurie being married to the wrong people), but in the third book of the "trilogy," LMA broke my heart all over again by providing a noble-but-not-happy ending for one of my favorite characters from LM, Dan. *sigh*
Oh well. At least Anne and Gilbert got together...
Yes, Anne and Gilbert did end up together. :) There is that.
And you even have links. Too ... easy. Can't ... resist.
They were my first. *sigh*
LMA cut my heart out with a rusty spoon.
Almost His made me cry -- a lot. (Then again, I've been told it might be pregnancy hormones.) *g*
Laurie/Amy. Really? Really? Now I'm indignant all over again. *sigh* LMA, you got that one wrong, I am sorry to say.
Laurie/Amy was horrid and totally implausible. *is nauseated*