Irvine Welsh likes Jane Austen:
Scotsman.com News – Latest News – Gritty Author Welsh Reveals Love of Jane Austen
“They’re still to me, the greatest books ever written by English novelists.“If you can take it almost as a sort of canon, on the whole they’ve been such a powerful, devastating influence on literature, British literature, European literature.”
I like this usage of devastating…
UPDATE:
Humourous take on this:
Remember that scene in Sense and Sensibility with the baby crawling across the ceiling? Everything is starting to make sense now.
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