First, the quote:

Although the image is contrary to Jane Austen’s unassuming nature, I like to contemplate the “Pride and Prejudice” author in paradise, ruining eternity for the dour Brontë sisters and George Eliot by issuing smug daily updates about the mini-industry of Austen knock-offs that her work has inspired. “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” “The Jane Austen Book Club,” “Jane Austen in Scarsdale,” “Austenland,” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict” and “Suspense and Sensibility” are but a few of the panegyrics, prequels, sequels and spin-offs produced thus far. The past year alone saw the release of more than three-dozen Jane-oriented titles, among them “Prada and Prejudice.” (And that’s not counting academic treatises.) “Pride and Extreme Prejudice,” anyone?

The Austen homage-wave apparently will continue in 2010: Witness the arrival of Cathleen Schine’s “The Three Weissmanns of Westport,” a fitfully appealing, rather too literal retelling of “Sense and Sensibility” set mostly on the Connecticut shores of Long Island Sound and in the posh redoubts of Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

Second, my take:
STOP KNOCKING OFF JANE AUSTEN AND CREATE YOUR OWN STORIES!

That’s all.

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