Booaaaaaah. Dieses Buch! Ich war ja ohnehin schon nicht sonderlich angetan. Aber dann ein Epilog à la Stolz und Vorurteil 2005, das alternative amerikanische Ende?! Baaaaaaaaaahhh!
(Das ist bei mir nur erlaubt wenn es von Anfang bis Ende durchgezogen wird und einen rosa Einband hat XD)
Well, I should say that I didn't read the book but watched the TV adaptation - and I am assuming that the adaptation follows the book.
On second thought, please tell me I'm wrong and the book is better....or different, because there were a lot of aspects of the story that were just annoying ..... such as random relatives/lovers appearing out of nowhere to justify the plot and the original cast of well-known personalities acting totally out of character.
On the positive, tho, the series featured Anna Maxwell Martin, which made it quite bearable - even though hearing her deliver some of the clunky dialogue made me cringe because she should not have to work from a sub-standard script.
A pretty great month of reading if you look purely at the numbers: 23 total books, 3 of them 5-star reads and 4 just missing perfection at 4.5 stars. Just one DNF.
Slightly less great is how many of those came from my April TBR Pile: just the 6 listed above, although I'm currently reading 2 of the others: The Folio Book of Comic Short Stories and The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York.
That means I've totally blown off reading Undeniably Yours and A Morbid Taste for Bones. I'd look at them on the table and just think "meh", then go find something else to read. The monthly stacks are working though; I'm getting to the books that I want to read but keep getting nudged aside for newer books.
Non-fiction read (* = 4.5/5 stars):
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Successful Gardening
Fiction read (* = 4.5/5 stars):
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
*The House at the End of Hope Street
Hope everyone had a great April.
“Heaven and earth — of what are you thinking? Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?”
Austen had no way of knowing it, but it wasn't Elizabeth Bennett that would pollute the shades of Pemberley; it was P.D. James.
A couple of pages in, I thought "oh, this is looking good - 4 stars at least".
After a few chapters and the mindless, never ending digressions started piling up, I thought "blah, blah, blah. 3 stars."
Then the part where Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam and a lawyer start debating the merits of England adding an appeals court to their judicial system, with Darcy's monologue about how it would work, how many judges it would have, etc. and I thought "are you kidding me with this? 2 stars".
The ending of the "mystery" (there is no mystery, only a murdered man and the most ludicrously contrived plot I've ever read) was so sputteringly (made up word) ridiculous, and the epilogue a mind-numbing, insulting rehash of the ending to P&P that my last thought as I closed the book:
Stick a fork in me, I'm done. 1 Star. This was awful.
Since I did much better with my semi-planned reading in March than I thought I might, I'm trying it again this month with the above books, some of which have been sitting in the TBR pile for a very long time. No non-fiction bricks this month, so perhaps I can get through the stack this time.
Happy reading!
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