Pride and Prejudice
One of my favourite books. And it is a love story.
To clarify: I have no problem with romantic books, per se. I just have stylistic issues: the language is usually awful, they are almost always misogynistic and you have to make gigantic leaps of logic. I'm sorry, but I have a brain and I enjoy using it.
This one, though, is warm and witty and wry, and under the flippancy is an awesome unexpectedly cynical take on British society in its day. It has one of my favourite heroines, bright, spirited Elizabeth Bennet. And it has a lovely, idyllic but not saccharine, happy ending.
Highly recommended.
To clarify: I have no problem with romantic books, per se. I just have stylistic issues: the language is usually awful, they are almost always misogynistic and you have to make gigantic leaps of logic. I'm sorry, but I have a brain and I enjoy using it.
This one, though, is warm and witty and wry, and under the flippancy is an awesome unexpectedly cynical take on British society in its day. It has one of my favourite heroines, bright, spirited Elizabeth Bennet. And it has a lovely, idyllic but not saccharine, happy ending.
Highly recommended.
posted by Namya at
2:20 AM
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I'd read this book when I was in 4th year of my elementary school.I hadn't liked the book much.However,I 'd appreciated somethings even then,like Austen's nuanced understanding of human nature ,the manner in which the character of Darcy was slowly carved out (almost exquisitely), Elizabeth's character,the way the misunderstandings between them are expressed due to Darcy being an introvert (never seeking to explain n express) .
On the outside the book seemed to be about nothing more than marriage for love and stupid, capricious women. But I have to accept l that Jane Austen was one of the best chroniclers of social customs and politics of the day.
I certainly like Jane Eyre better .And you?
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Edmund Anderson, at 6:14 AM
I definitely like P&P better. It's funnier, happier, less intense: more my kind of book.
And I don't relate to Jane's point of view very well, she's a bit weird.
I like that you assumed I'd read Jane Eyre, though.
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Namya, at 2:38 AM
"I 'd appreciated somethings even then,like Austen's nuanced understanding of human nature ,the manner etc."
You can actually dissect a text when you're eight? Wow.
Namya, plain curiosity, when did you first read a Jane Austen? I understand Harry Potter, but Jane Austens and Brontes at seven?
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lonewolf4eva007, at 9:10 AM
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Edmund Anderson, at 4:05 AM
I read an abridged version of Pride and Prejudice when I was in 3rd, I think, and then the real version in 4th, which I promptly fell in love with (Sense and Sensibility in 5th, not been able to finish another Austen). Jane Eyre was much later, 9th, I think.
I started reading early, and I grew up in a culture of reading, more or less. I had so many books around me that I didn't see what was 'my age', I just went by rule of thumb: finish what you like and quit what you don't.
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Namya, at 9:55 AM
wow.
I wish I'd started reading early, it's something I regret big time. Now I'm looking forward to my retirement to read and read and read some more, without having to hide in the bathroom.
Don't tell me I can do that now, it's not being practical. You know, reading all the time. Time, sigh.
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Sobhagya Jose, at 4:26 AM
You'll probably have found out before you get around to reading this, but you guys got a score of 8.5 in today's Physics quiz, which makes you the highest scoring team to qualify.
Cheers!
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Espèra, at 4:05 AM
I finished the book only, and only for the sake of the funny bits. A historian might be interested in it. Not an 11th grade CS student. You're lucky to have read it before you could possibly start hating it.
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Monkey With Keyboard, at 11:40 PM
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