This is an actual book that people have read.

Thinking of getting a male-to-female sex change but can’t afford those costly estrogen treatments? Just watch this trailer three or four times and you’ll be singing soprano in no time. Hell, I watched it once and immediately started lactating.

What is this atrocity, you ask? And why, Lord, why? Well apparently it’s based on the identically-titled bestselling novel by Joy Fowler, in which five Californian women and one hunky man join together to discuss Jane Austen novels. Ninety minutes of crying, bed-hopping and emotional outpouring ensue. Sounds fascinating, huh? Like coming down with a mild case of eczema is fascinating.

Mark Twain on Jane Austen:

Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

And of course there’s the classic:

Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book.

Mark Twain, ladies and gentlemen. Mark Twain. The Jane Austen Book Club stars Maria Bello, Hugh Dancy, Emily Blunt, Kathy Baker, Jimmy Smits, six cartons of Tampax tampons and an extra large bottle of Danazol.

Tags: the jane austen book club, maria bello, jimmy smits, emily blunt

Tweet This Post 

• ShoWest names Anne Hatthaway ‘Female Star of the Year’
• Weekend Box Office Predictions – 10/5 to 10/7
• Weekend Estimates for August 3-5, 2007
• Friday Box Office Estimates + Weekend Estimates
• Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD: Trailer