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You can now pre-order The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet, the novelization of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, by Bernie Su and Kate Rorick.
To be published by Simon & Schuster on July 1, 2014.
trying to decide if I want to read this or not…
and the description:
There is a great deal that goes into making a video blog. Lizzie Bennet should know, having become a YouTube sensation over the course of her year-long video diary project. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries chronicled Lizzie’s life as a twenty-four-year-old grad student, struggling under a mountain of student loans and living at home with her two sisters—beautiful Jane and reckless Lydia. What may have started as her grad student thesis grew into so much more, as the videos came to inform and reflect her life and that of her sisters. When rich, handsome Bing Lee comes to town, along with his stuck-up friend William Darcy, things really start to get interesting for the Bennets—and for Lizzie’s viewers. Suddenly Lizzie—who always considered herself a fairly normal young woman—was a public figure. But not everything happened on-screen. Luckily for us, Lizzie kept a secret diary.
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet provides more character introspection as only a book can, with revelatory details about the Bennet household, including Lizzie’s special relationship with her father, untold stories from Netherfield, Lizzie’s thoughts and fears about life after grad school and becoming an instant web celebrity.
Written by Bernie Su, the series’ executive producer, co-creator, head writer, and director, along with Kate Rorick, the novelist, TV writer, and consulting producer on the series, the novel features a journal-entry format and design, complementing the existing web series, while including plenty of fresh twists to delight fans and new readers alike. The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennet expands on the phenomenon that captivated a generation and reimagines the Pride and Prejudice story like it’s never been done before.
(emphasis mine)
I have a lot of thoughts about this. I just can’t articulate them yet.
I would highlight all of this, really:
“provides more character introspection as only a book can, with revelatory details about the Bennet household, including Lizzie’s special relationship with her father, untold stories from Netherfield, Lizzie’s thoughts and fears about life after grad school”
and this
“expands on the phenomenon”
Can this be really true? Because the only way this book is worthwhile buying and reading is if they give us things that the videos couldn’t.
My thinking, such as it is, is also that if the videos couldn’tgive us something that would have influenced the text, then maybe they weren’t doing enough work. If there’s all this stuff underneath that is only barely hinted at but is important enough to merit an entire second interpretation of the existing world, then how successful is that existing world to begin with?
That’s a really cynical way to view it (as is the “how much are you going to wring out of this before you say you’re done” reaction), and I understand that there’s a lot of stuff that Lizzie wouldn’t have aired—part of her progression as a character has to do with not telling the internet everything, learning to deal with her own emotional processes in a way that’s more internal and more about relying on the people she loves, and talking to people who matter to her. But Ashley’s performance does, and the writing should, make those things very clear in the videos to begin with. So this is in a way bonus content but it’s also kinda fanfic of the thing by the creators of the thing. And I can’t really put my finger on what about that is a little bit bothersome to me, but it is, because while I like the idea of this, I also think—you had the chance the first time to get all this stuff in, and in some ways you did, and if in other ways you didn’t, then that’s something that’s part of the work you created and you can’t get a do over.
On the other hand, I super want to read every fucking word of Darcy’s letter and parse it for hidden messages of love and an undercurrent of barely suppressed bitterness because in my mind it is an object of glory.
I like these thoughts. These are good thoughts.
My main question is, how much did each of them contribute to the writing of it. Because I’ve heard good things about Kate Rorick.
I was feeling anti. But the Mr. Bennet mention makes me teeter. I’m a sucker for Lizzie’s relationship with her dad, and really wanted more of it in the show.
But yeah, it feels like being played. Though maybe that’s the DVD talking.
Also, as people have said from the beginning, there’s something absurdly cheeky in the whole idea of doing a novelization of LBD.
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