Anne of Green Gables

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I know some of you out there will admit along with me that Anne and Gilbert were your first ship.  Just in case some of you didn't know, the 100th Anniversary of the printing of Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery is this year.  Amazon.com has a 100th Anniversary edition out right now in hardcover, if anyone is interested.  

I confess that I read the cover right off my original copy.  I know some of you did the same - anyone care to reminisce about Gilbert Blythe?

Comments

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Megan Follows will always be Anne to me. And I agree that the first too were the good ones, that WWI movie was bizarre. It was like they took the rest of the series and made it all about Anne and Gil and not their children. Wasn't it Walter that fought in WWI? In "Rilla of Ingleside"?

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I only ever read the original series. But in the original series Gilbert was a doctor on the Island, not in the war. Why did they have to change it? I just don't understand...

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Right, in the books Gil was a doctor in Ingleside, and they had kids, one of whom fought in WWI. After the two original Anne movies, there was a third one that was sort of a combo of the last one or two books in the series, only they had Gil going to WWI (although he might have been a doctor?) and Anne was in Europe too, and basically it was totally bizarre.

[labsquint.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was. At the time I was really looking forward to it and I remember being disappointed because it just wasn't what I was expecting. Not after how loyal they had been to the storyline in the first two pieces. I treat that last installment like I treat 'A Pain in the Heart'...it simply didn't happen in my world... ::insert innocent whistling here::

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Very good idea - if everyone participates in the delusion, then that will make it go away. And I'm definitely game for applying that principle to 'A Pain in the Heart'. **whistles with you**