The second half of Persuasion was a great improvement on the first, however, this book was still not to the same standard i remember Pride and Prejudice and Emma being. Other than Anne and Mary, the characters were boring and lacked individuality. The storyline was also nothing special and the humou...
It is great to be older. I'm not talking about our writer but about the audience, specifically, myself. With age reading is more rewarding. I used to think a novel must, perhaps like a scientific project, present a problem and in the end solve it, satisfactorily. Yet this world is way too complicate...
My favorite Jane Austen novel- in my opinion the most romantic and the only one with anything approaching real passion. Anne and Frederick are a pair of mature, convincing lovers and although the structure remains as formulaic as anything in Austen's oeuvre, the characters keep you engaged and rooti...
Absolutely loved it! I challenge anyone to say any of Austen's novels surpass this one...seriously. Will totally take on any recommendation.(B/c the only other book I've read by Austen is Pride & Prejudice)Official Review:Loved it more than Pride & Prejudice. (Granted, I will probably re-read it sin...
I'm surprised whenever I hear that this is someone's favorite Austen novel. It's a difficult read -- dark and bleak. There's not one happy moment or event that doesn't hinge directly on unhappiness or outright misery. There isn't much humor, and when there is, it's rather over-broad.Of course, it's ...
I don't know if I just haven't been in the mood for Austen lately or what, but this book was extremely difficult for me to get into at first. But then after about 80 pages or so I got really into it and absolutely fell in love! Also, after hearing about The Letter for years, it was lovely to finally...
I'm not going to write a long review here because we were reading along over at Wallace's (Unputdownables) and I already did a fair amount of discussion over there so I decided to share edited versions of my discussion comments as my review. Hope it flows okay. ;O)I felt very sorry for Anne. I ha...
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