• Welcome to BookAndReader!

    We LOVE books and hope you'll join us in sharing your favorites and experiences along with your love of reading with our community. Registering for our site is free and easy, just CLICK HERE!

    Already a member and forgot your password? Click here.

Jane Austen: Pride And Prejudice

I'm sorry to say I despised this book. It bored me to death, and I had to buy Cliff's Notes to help me understand anything. On my list of worst books of all time, it ranks #4.
 
I love Jane Austen, and P&P is my favorite of her books. It's very well written - I love the irony, and I love the characters, especially Mrs. Bennet (in the BBC series she is even more hilarious than she is in the book) and Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy... (When I read the book I kept asking myself why I've never met any one like him...:p)
 
Pride & Prejudice is a wonderful book - one of the few 'classic' novels I've read that made me laugh out loud (usually from one or other of Mr Bennett's sarcastic remarks). I haven't read any of Austen's others though; can anyone recommend one of them?
 
Pride and Prejudice is the best of the bunch, but Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion are next best I reckon. Not as funny though.
 
it's one of my favorite books and probably my favorite by austen. how can you not fall in love with elizabeth and mr. darcy!
 
Wintergreen said:
Pride & Prejudice is a wonderful book - one of the few 'classic' novels I've read that made me laugh out loud (usually from one or other of Mr Bennett's sarcastic remarks). I haven't read any of Austen's others though; can anyone recommend one of them?
Click to expand...

Northanger Abbey is completely hilarious. A total spoof on the typical gothic books of the day..and one in particular, The Mysteries of Udolpho, which I have also read. I highly recommend Northanger Abbey. There is a movie of it too, with such ridiculous cinematography that you will laugh out loud.
 
i have not yet read northanger abbey but i've heard that it's different from her other books. I read pride and prejudice when i was thirteen and enjoyed it IMMENSELY, i couldn't stop reading it. I loved the satire and witticism. HOwever, I also read Emma, Persuasion and Mansfield Park and those didn't appeal to me at all. i thought she wrote six books, however, browsing the school library, i discovered she wrote a 7th-lady susan i think. do you guys know anything about this one?
 
HermioneWeasley said:
i have not yet read northanger abbey but i've heard that it's different from her other books. I read pride and prejudice when i was thirteen and enjoyed it IMMENSELY, i couldn't stop reading it. I loved the satire and witticism. HOwever, I also read Emma, Persuasion and Mansfield Park and those didn't appeal to me at all. i thought she wrote six books, however, browsing the school library, i discovered she wrote a 7th-lady susan i think. do you guys know anything about this one?
Click to expand...

She wrote Northanger Abbey and Lady Susan when she was young and it shows. Lady Susan is worth reading just for the sake of completion, but it's not great. I found Northanger Abbey pretty juvenile to be honest, but I know a lot pf people like it. You can get Lady Susan in a book with The Watsons and Sandition, but as I said, they're only worth it if you want to be able to say you've read all her work.
 
The lives people back in that 19 century caste system never interested me, really who cares? The writing style was hhhmmm okay, but the dialog is....wow, I loved the dialog in that book.
 
yes, mogo, what a good point about the dialogue, especially between Elizabeth and Darcy and between Elizabeth's aunt and uncle. Good, true irony also, very funny. The only thing that I sort of don't care for about Austen are her happy endings. I don't know why that is, but the endings seem rather false. Maybe she was just not quite ready to break that convention at the time she wrote?
 
Love P&P, so many great characters and it's a wonderful romance. Lizzy's sassy and spirited but sometimes she needs to shut her gob to stop her putting her foot in it :)
 
sorry i didn't read the first 3 pages, i kinda don't have time. but anyway...

I readthis book a year ago, when I was in ninth grade, and enjoyed it enourmously. the witty dialogue and sarcasm, coupled with the adventure and love story really made this a wonderful book. however, i was rather dissapointed by austen's other novels.
 
I have to say that P&P is probably Austen's best work, but I don't think her others are far inferior - I have read Emma, Sense and Sensibility and Mansfield Park. Emma is quite an interesting, exciting read that portrays intriguing characters, S&S is fantastic in its exploration of social and financial difficulties and Mansfield Park, though I can see it has its faults and the heroine is somewhat dubious, completely sucked me in through the dialogue. Somehow, I think Austen can make the utterly mundane seem fascinating!
 
I love this book.. I've read it a few times..
I love the characters and the way it is written.
Elizabeth is my favourite character....
It's my favourite Jane Austen..
It almost makes me want to squeeze in a corset..! :)
 
isilien said:
I love Jane Austen, and P&P is my favorite of her books. It's very well written - I love the irony, and I love the characters, especially Mrs. Bennet (in the BBC series she is even more hilarious than she is in the book) and Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy... (When I read the book I kept asking myself why I've never met any one like him...:p)
Click to expand...

Just what I wanted to write about this fabulous book.

I first encounteret P&P when I saw the BBC series from 1995 about 11 or 12 years ago and I was taken aback so beautiful was it.

Later I bought the book in English and I've read it over and over and over again because I always find something new in it everytime I start reading it.

Just the way these two complete different people (Elisabeth and Mr. Darcy) finds each other after so many troubles and just the way that Elisabeth gets to Mr. Darcy still facinates me.

My sister and mother are also crazy with P&P and we've all got the miniseries from 1995 on DVD.
 
I am also a big fan of Pride and Prejudice. I think all of Austen's books were written as much for the re-read as for the first time reader - there's always something new. I am always entertained and drawn in by Austen's language and wit. I often find myself laughing out loud at the character's and their ever so human foibles. Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy are two of the best characters ever and I will forever love to read them.

I also have to say that Emma was not as impressive, but Persuasion is fantastic. If you like P&P, you'll like Persuasion.
 
I am actually planning to buy this book this weekend, if I can make it to the bookstore. I saw a recent movie last night (with Keira Knightley) normally I try not to watch the movies before I read the books, but I couldn't resist and I fell in love with the story and now I want to buy the book.

so I guess I will be back here when I've actually read it. sorry for cutting in, but just wanted to share that. lol. :p
 
I love that movie! Just be aware that the book is a little different from the movie - longer and more complex.

I hope you enjoy the book! I think I'm going to go watch that movie...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top