It is my understanding that, as a female, I should like Jane Austen books. So I feel like a bit of a traitor to my gender. I'm sorry, but this book was boring. Slow and boring. I kept a mild interest in the outcome so I trudged through it to the end, but it took me forever and I really did feel like I was reading against my will. And I realize that people spoke more formally in Ms. Austen's time, but still. That formally? With their own sisters and mothers? I kept wanting to scream, "Stop talking like that!" And while I did catch a lot of the author's humor, wit and irony (which I enjoyed), I found myself constantly having to re-read paragraphs to understand what had just been said. Maybe it's just not the kind of book you can read with constant distractions around you (in the form of two little boys). I don't know. But I wasn't really a fan. Sorry gals. Maybe I'll like the movie better.
I do feel I ought to give Jane Austen another try with Pride and Prejudice. I hear that's her best book. But after that I'm done. You've got one more shot, Lady.
As a bit of an aside, I recently saw the Jane Austen Book Club and really liked it. Worth a rental if anyone's interested.
4 comments:
I am the same! I haven't ever made it through a Jane Austen book. I feel like everyone talks so highly of them that I must be a crazy person for thinking that they are so boring! I am not alone!
The reading is a bit tiresome but the moview do move me. You have to watch the Emma Thompson/Hugh Grant/Kate Winslet version of S&S and the Colin Firth 5 hour A&E version of Pride and Prejudice. Hello Mr. Darcy!
I feel so embarassed to say that I've never been able to get through the first couple of chapters . . . and I call myself an "avid reader".
It's on my list "to do". :)
funny. i love that i can hear your voice as i'm reading this. i'm with you--read pride and prejudice and be done with jane!
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