# Mr Darcy. Wet. That is all **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 18, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112 "2008-02-18T16:29:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112/21 "2008-02-19T15:40:44Z")
[QUOTE=Eleanor of Aquitaine] Is Grange’s stuff really the best there is? Are none of the modern sequels, or the other parallel stories, any better? This is the first one I’ve tried. [/QUOTE] I really liked Carrie Bebris’s second Mr. & Mrs. Darcy Mystery _Suspence and Susceptability_– which is about some of the characters from Austen’s _Sense and Sensibility_–although one should be warned that it veers off a bit towards the paranormal. The first one, _Pride and Prescience_ didn’t appeal to me as much–something about bad things happening to good characters or something. (The fact that I read it almost immediatly after reading the second book in the series may not have helped). The third one _North by Northanger_, was enjoyable but not worthy of great enthusiasm–in my opinion. I’ ve not read Grange’s stuff or much else of the modern sequels and parallel stories, so I can’t compare. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112/22 "2008-02-19T17:06:21Z")
I read Pride and Prescience recently and thought it … forgivable and somewhat enjoyable. Which is far higher praise than I can give Mr. Darcy Takes a Wife (I didn’t finish it either). ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112/23 "2008-02-19T17:23:19Z")
I had forgotten about it, but I read Pride and Prescience when it first came out and I didn’t hate it. The mystery gimmick made it more palatable than a straight sequel, as I recall. Maybe I’ll give the second one in the series a look. ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112/24 "2008-02-19T18:01:13Z")
I once read another author’s completion of one of Austen’s early unfinished books and it was so awful I flung it away. I suspect I’d feel the same about these fanfics, which is what they seem to be. I tried reading excerpts of the Anne of Green Gables prequel, recently published, and it went nowhere fast. A well-known writer did it, too. Which just goes to show you. Small as the Austen universe is, it’s going to be enough for me. Better a small perfection than not. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112/25 "2008-02-19T18:22:10Z")
[QUOTE=Bridget Burke] Personally, I could enjoy a more “intimate” portrait of Jane & Mr Darcy. But \*Mister Darcy Takes a Wife \* is wretched. Could not finish it… _Pride & Prejudice_ fan fiction can be found. And some of it is better than that dreadful book. [/QUOTE] Of course I didn’t mean Jane–I meant Elizabeth! ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112/26 "2008-02-19T18:30:18Z")
> [@Me](#): > > The first one, Pride and Prescience didn’t appeal to me as much–something about bad things happening to good characters or something. (The fact that I read it almost immediatly after reading the second book in the series may not have helped). You know, I think I liked the second one, the first one I read, as much as I did in part because I thought it was a cool idea, and I had a dose of New Author Infatuation. When I then read the first in the series, the infatuation had worn off, as had some of the charm and novelty of the familiar characters, in slightly unfamiliar settings. Still, while it’s not great literature, or even a great mystery, I enjoyed it enough to read the third one, which I’m not enthusiastic about, but didn’t hate either. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112/27 "2008-02-19T18:53:06Z")
I always figured my Austen fanfic would be to “Wide Sargasso Sea” Caroline Bingley. I think there is an interesting woman under that bitch - one who thinks too highly of herself and has had to beat off fortune hunters with a stick while not being able to attach anyone she considers respectable enough for her. I’ve always pictured Bingley as the baby of the family - with Caroline getting just old enough to start to dispair. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112/28 "2008-02-19T21:09:53Z")
Bride and Prejudice was good, but nowhere near as good as Monsoon Wedding. I didn’t like Lady Catherine as Darcy’s mother in the movie–why not make her his aunt? I loved the 4 sisters and their family. I won’t buy it, but could watch it again. I’ll try Pride and Prescience etc. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-darcy-wet-that-is-all/438112.md?page=1)