＊好きな人の好きな本が好きだとは限らない＊
またジェーン・オースティンか…いい加減にせーよ、と思われるかもしれませんが、すみません、これで最後にしますから。とりあえず、「ジェーン・オースティン」とつくものは何でも試さないと気が済まないらしい。「高慢と偏見殺人事件」とか「高慢と偏見とゾンビ」とかそんな本まで読んでしまう。流石に「高慢と偏見とゾンビ」の映画は見なかったけど。怖そうだし。
この本はまず映画を観て、原作があると知って文庫本を読んで、その後図書館で見つけたので英語で読んだ。この作者の他の作品は読んだことがないけど、この本は英語圏の読者の評判はあまりよくないみたいだった。登場人物が多すぎるとかそんな理由らしい。所謂群像劇です。
ジェーン・オースティンの読書会をすることになった女が5人男が1人、ちょうどオースティンの作品が6冊あるから順番に主催者になろうということになる。それぞれの人生に問題を抱えていて、それぞれの人生に変化が起こる。
この中の男1人がオースティンの初心者でSF好きで女の一人を好きになる。それで彼は好きでもないオースティンを読む。彼女が好きだから。でも女の方は勧められたSFをなかなか読まない。これは女の方が年上だからなのか、頑固だからなのか…。
素敵な本屋さんが出て来る。そこで彼が彼女におすすめの本を選んでいく。映画や小説としてはとてもいい。心ときめく。でも、実際自分がされたらどうなのか!?わからない。全部は読めないかも。2、3冊なら読んでみるかもとかいろいろ思う。
本好きなら付き合う相手も本を読まないより読む人の方がいい。でも、必ずしも同じ本を読む必要もない。人の本棚を見るのは楽しい。自分の本棚を見られるのは心の中を覗かれているようで少し気まづい。読書と言うのはとてもプライベートなものなのです。だから、人に本を勧めるのは難しいなと思う。
これを読んだ人も私の紹介した本を読まないで全然大丈夫です。
＊We don't always like books people we like like
Jane Austen again... you might say. I'm sorry. This is the last. It seems I can't do without trying something with the name of Jane Austen. I read not only "Death comes to Pemberley", but also "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", though I haven't seen the film of "Jane Austen and Zombies" just because I was scared.
I saw the film of this story, I mean "Jane Austen Book Club" at first, then I came to know it has an original book, so I read it in Japanese, then I found the English one at the library. I have never read other books written by this author, but this book doesn't have good book reviews very much. Some people say it has too many caractors. It doesn't matter with me. Of course it's an ensemble cast book.
Five women and a man start Jane Austen Book Club. Jane Austen wrote 6 books, so each member plays a role of host for each story. Each member has their own problems in their lives , and they change as the story goes.
The man who is the only male member of the club is a Jane Austen beginner, who originally a fan of Science Fiction. He likes one of members, and he reads Austen books he doesn't like at all because he likes her. However, the woman he likes never try to read the SF books he recommends. Is that because she thinks herself too old for him, or she is just stubborn ? I have no idea.
They go to a nice book store, and he picks up some books of his recommendation for her. How sweet as a fiction, but I wonder what I would feel if it really happens to me. I don't know. I won't read them all. I may read some of them, I guess. It probably depends on how much I like him.
Whatever they read, bookish people prefer the same sort of people to be with in my opinion. To observe other's bookshelf is fun. To be observed my own bookshelf is awkward like being looked inside of me.
Reading is such a very private thing, and I think it very difficult to recommend someone some books.
In conclusion, so it is OK at all, in case you don't read the book I wrote about after reading this page.
