Here you go,
Ever read a tirade and wonder at the giver's ability to care so very much about something so very unimportant? Not in a while? aww, poor you!! All your friends just seem to have their priorities in order leaving you in a ridiculous-laugh-inducing-rant-derth lurch. Well, I will take pity, I cannot see you suffer any longer:
Jane Austen is a beloved author whose work's popularity transcends demographic hurdles as she enters her 3RD CENTURY of fame.
YET
There has not even been ONE respectfully decent movie version of Persuasion. There have been TWO VERY atrocious angering flops that don't even attempt to capture the complexity of each scene leaving Anne a one dimensional droopy character with a superficial and slight superiority to her family's utter ridiculousness.
And why....really, WHY must Anne wear always the same shabby dress and bonnet and wear her hair in the most inconceivably unbecoming way???? Is there ANYTHING written to suggest that the daughter, however old and unmarried, of a baronet would not have a maid to do her hair regardless of her 8 years of brokenhearted indisposition regarding hair style? Everyone around her seems to have a maid who knows about hair, so it can't be the lack of an environment nurturing the aesthetic. As best as I can tell, the costume designers do their level best to sheath her in gunnysack cloth and the vicarage's cast off couch upholstery as a symbol of her grief....however, we viewers are quiet clever enough to discover deeply harbored grief through other methods more subtle that require a modicum of skill on the part of the actress....like having a face.
It is ridiculous. Anne Elliot must be able to claim prettiness that simply lacks youthful bloom, not possible prettiness disguised in something the swineherd has used to rub down his inmates. I protest.
Jane Austen is a beloved author whose work's popularity transcends demographic hurdles as she enters her 3RD CENTURY of fame.
YET
There has not even been ONE respectfully decent movie version of Persuasion. There have been TWO VERY atrocious angering flops that don't even attempt to capture the complexity of each scene leaving Anne a one dimensional droopy character with a superficial and slight superiority to her family's utter ridiculousness.
And why....really, WHY must Anne wear always the same shabby dress and bonnet and wear her hair in the most inconceivably unbecoming way???? Is there ANYTHING written to suggest that the daughter, however old and unmarried, of a baronet would not have a maid to do her hair regardless of her 8 years of brokenhearted indisposition regarding hair style? Everyone around her seems to have a maid who knows about hair, so it can't be the lack of an environment nurturing the aesthetic. As best as I can tell, the costume designers do their level best to sheath her in gunnysack cloth and the vicarage's cast off couch upholstery as a symbol of her grief....however, we viewers are quiet clever enough to discover deeply harbored grief through other methods more subtle that require a modicum of skill on the part of the actress....like having a face.
It is ridiculous. Anne Elliot must be able to claim prettiness that simply lacks youthful bloom, not possible prettiness disguised in something the swineherd has used to rub down his inmates. I protest.

Attempt number 3 is in production but is looking like it will be every bit as bad as its predecessors.
Update: Yup, you got the right book.