Good book, but not my favorite. I loved the Colin Firth version, but the book wasn't my favorite for Austen.
It took me much longer than I expected to slog through, but I finally finished it!The biggest difficulty I had reading P&P was the language, and I don't mean the vocabulary. Something about the way people spoke English in the 19th century seems excessively inflated when compared to today's standard ...
Pride and Prejudice is quite possibly the best romance novel I have ever read. They just don't write romance like they used too. From practically the very beginning, I was captivated by Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy. I've always loved the story of Pride and Prejudice since I'd seen the movie (with Keira K...
It took me a really long time to finish this book. I think I actually started it before Parker was born and she's now almost 14 months old. The reason is that it's simply hard to read. Obviously this book was written before editors and publishing houses, and I really think we're the better for them....
My one issue with this book that it was just boring.
Oh my feelings on this book! The first hundred pages or so were painful! I just couldn't get into the characters. Elizabeth Bennett was my least favorite character ever. I thought she was the most prideful and prejudiced of the bunch and she really annoyed me. In the second half of the book though, ...
I really enjoyed this book; I had seen bits and pieces of the movie with Kiera Knightley, so I had a small idea of what it would be like. However, as is almost always the case, the book is better than the movie I think. Jane Austen's characters are so deep and complicated; not necessarily somethin...
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