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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
I like you , but if u don't want me I'll date ur mother too
I enjoyed Lady Susan, but The Watsons and Sanditon were quite boring. Maybe that's to do with them being unfinished novels though.
Feels unfair to judge unfinished works so I'm sure the star rating would increase when they were finished. I was most invested in the Watsons, and the entrepreneurial angle of Sanditon opens up a very different narrative, without a romance?
I love Jane Austen. There’s something about knowing her history and the time period in which she was writing that just makes her that much greater. She was so far ahead of her time and wrote about issues that are still pertinent today, if not in the exact manner.
I thought each of these three novels were unique and amazing in their own way. Lady Susan was the first and it was a bit difficult to get into but ultimately turned out to be brilliant. Jane Austen wrote it in the epistolary style, similar to how some of her other well known novels originally began. If she would have rewritten Lady Susan, I have no doubt people would treasure it as much as her other six completed novels. There was drama, intrigue, scandal and a love story. In today’s over-sexed drama-ridden violent society (on TV and in books at least), this novel would clearly be (and remains) invisible. A movie would never be made unless it was turned into a sexy drama with a murder or something.
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.
I thought each of these three novels were unique and amazing in their own way. Lady Susan was the first and it was a bit difficult to get into but ultimately turned out to be brilliant. Jane Austen wrote it in the epistolary style, similar to how some of her other well known novels originally began. If she would have rewritten Lady Susan, I have no doubt people would treasure it as much as her other six completed novels. There was drama, intrigue, scandal and a love story. In today’s over-sexed drama-ridden violent society (on TV and in books at least), this novel would clearly be (and remains) invisible. A movie would never be made unless it was turned into a sexy drama with a murder or something.
Continue reading on my book blog at geoffwhaley.com.
for many years, i knew about this book, and owned this book, and desperately wanted to read this book, and yet i was unable to make myself do so.
because it was crucial to my well-being and ability to remain a human person that i was able to pretend that i haven't read everything jane austen ever wrote.
but after years of strength and determination, i was no longer able to resist. i read this. and now i'm done with jane forever. unless we make some serious frankenstein-esque scientific progress, or someone commits some believable literary fraud, or a huge discovery is made in the desk in the austen museum by nicolas cage and a lemon juice code...i will never read anything new from ms. austen.
and to that i say: NOOOOOOOOO!
i did not know this is straight up 10 chapters. this is approximately 1/6 of a jane austen book. the beginning sixth, where we're meeting our various clowns and the love interest has done the plot equivalent of walking past an open door in the background of an irrelevant conversation.
i didn't know what little time i had.
and still this managed to be sharp and funny and i desperately wish it was, you know, an actual book.
send any genies you discover my way.
bottom line: i will never be the same again.
3.5
because it was crucial to my well-being and ability to remain a human person that i was able to pretend that i haven't read everything jane austen ever wrote.
but after years of strength and determination, i was no longer able to resist. i read this. and now i'm done with jane forever. unless we make some serious frankenstein-esque scientific progress, or someone commits some believable literary fraud, or a huge discovery is made in the desk in the austen museum by nicolas cage and a lemon juice code...i will never read anything new from ms. austen.
and to that i say: NOOOOOOOOO!
i did not know this is straight up 10 chapters. this is approximately 1/6 of a jane austen book. the beginning sixth, where we're meeting our various clowns and the love interest has done the plot equivalent of walking past an open door in the background of an irrelevant conversation.
i didn't know what little time i had.
and still this managed to be sharp and funny and i desperately wish it was, you know, an actual book.
send any genies you discover my way.
bottom line: i will never be the same again.
3.5
adventurous
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
3.5 ⭐️ I wish she had finished Santidon and The Watsons because they had so much potential but she’s dead now so i can’t exact bully her into writing
I've already read Lady Susan, so I'm only reviewing the other two works.
The Watsons: Three stars.
I can't really give an unfinished book more than that. I really enjoyed what was written, and I found the characters interesting, though I obviously would have liked more development. I'll just have to be happy with the ending that was outlined at the end.
Sanditon: Two 1/2 stars.
It was amusing to a point, but I don't think I could read a finished version of it.
The Watsons: Three stars.
I can't really give an unfinished book more than that. I really enjoyed what was written, and I found the characters interesting, though I obviously would have liked more development. I'll just have to be happy with the ending that was outlined at the end.
Sanditon: Two 1/2 stars.
It was amusing to a point, but I don't think I could read a finished version of it.
A must-read for Austen fanatics, this volume comprises three incomplete manuscripts.
Lady Susan is the epistolary tale of a widow who connives to marry herself and her daughter to men of fortune, even if she has to wrestle them away from previous attachments. The narrative ends abruptly, although it is technically complete.
The Watsons tells of a young woman recently cast aside by her wealthy aunt, sent back to the poor family she barely knows, and of the various suitors she and her sister entertain.
Sandition is the story of an up-and-coming seaside resort and the speculators and hypochondriacs that populate it.
All three novels are populated by the usual cast of Austen types: titled widows, young women of little means, and men of varying degrees of fortune and sense. None of them offers quite the wit or clarity of purpose that Austen's better-known (and more polished) works display, but they're all interesting in their own right.
Lady Susan is the epistolary tale of a widow who connives to marry herself and her daughter to men of fortune, even if she has to wrestle them away from previous attachments. The narrative ends abruptly, although it is technically complete.
The Watsons tells of a young woman recently cast aside by her wealthy aunt, sent back to the poor family she barely knows, and of the various suitors she and her sister entertain.
Sandition is the story of an up-and-coming seaside resort and the speculators and hypochondriacs that populate it.
All three novels are populated by the usual cast of Austen types: titled widows, young women of little means, and men of varying degrees of fortune and sense. None of them offers quite the wit or clarity of purpose that Austen's better-known (and more polished) works display, but they're all interesting in their own right.
funny
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No