Prequel to Uzumaki - Austenland Fan Reaction, Uzumaki Preview

Katie, let's see what people had to say about Austenland.

Yeah.

Well, you know, that's just, like, uh, your opinion, man.

On Patreon, we had two votes for the movie, one for the book, and one listener who couldn't decide.

Our first comment was from A Handful of Fishbones-

Mm-hmm

... who said, "I am not the target audience for this book.

[laughs] A fact exasperated by my flipping back and forth between listening to Austenland and The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, a book where there are multiple levels of distrust I hold for the narrative being delivered." Have not read that-

I don't, I don't know what that is

...

but, uh, just based on that description, it does sound a little more serious.

[laughs]

Yeah.

"So reading Austenland, I kept reaching for some deeper meaning to this story, for some more dynamic reason being built to in the numbered boyfriends or some twist or greater lesson to learn from this experience Jane goes through.

And as I ranted about this to my roommate, she smiled and laughed like I was missing the point, because I was.

Anyway, I found the characters mostly empty, the idea very silly in a fan fiction way." It is kind of fan fiction-y.

Yeah, I mean-

I didn't really think about it during the episode, but it is.

It, yeah.

Yeah, kind of fan-

It's like a fan fiction adjacent-

Kind of fiction-y.

Yeah

... kind of, yeah.

"And Jane's constant flip-flopping tiring.