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4.14 AVERAGE
4.14 AVERAGE
Everyone says how great this book is…. I could not get into it. Maybe because I read Bridgerton first and I went in with different expectations.
Just because it is a classic does not mean it will be good, kinda too cheesy for me and the writing is too formal. I rather read a more modern book
An absolute headache to read from start to finish. Never again. I detested it. How can anyone think this is a classic? How can the blurb boast “light and bright and sparkling dialogue”? Every character has swallowed a thesaurus and virtually every line needed to be double checked to make sure I understood what the hell they were going on about. Almost 400 pages of this shit.
Did they really talk like this? All these jobless layabouts whose idea of fun is to walk clockwise and then anti-clockwise around the living room? Their lives are so empty that they fill them up with these big pompous words and overthink every single phrase and gesture. And I’m not just talking about the characters. I’m talking about the author too. This book spent far too long in the oven.
Ugh. Everything is just SO overexplained and the characters overexamine everything. And the reader has to suffer through it.
If by some insane chance I receive a head injury, lose all memory of the story and have to read this again, I’d read the last two chapters first, just so I can understand everyone’s motives.
Did they really talk like this? All these jobless layabouts whose idea of fun is to walk clockwise and then anti-clockwise around the living room? Their lives are so empty that they fill them up with these big pompous words and overthink every single phrase and gesture. And I’m not just talking about the characters. I’m talking about the author too. This book spent far too long in the oven.
Ugh. Everything is just SO overexplained and the characters overexamine everything. And the reader has to suffer through it.
If by some insane chance I receive a head injury, lose all memory of the story and have to read this again, I’d read the last two chapters first, just so I can understand everyone’s motives.
A couple good one-liners but not much more, though it's pretty good as a window into the attitudes of the English gentry. Maybe I'll come back to it.
This book was NOT to my liking. I am truly sorry to all the people that adore this book, but I could not stand it.
Plot= Elizabeth Bennett’s love life. Lizzie is the younger sister to sweet yet naive Jane, and older sister to Lydia (the absolute WORST) and Kitty (not much better). Mary is hardly worth noting considering she was mentioned maybe 4 times. Lizzie’s mom is the most insufferable woman of all time, and Lizzie’s father is so apathetic to everything that he is utterly useless.
And the romance! I’m sorry, but if a guy ignores you then gossips about you but later proposes, would YOU accept? Hell no! Idc about all the great stuff he secretly did or how misunderstood he was-they maybe spent a total of an hour together the whole book!
Plus so many plot points were completely unnecessary. The book could have been cut in half, Jane.
So many of these people were unlikeable. Mr. Collins is a holier-than-thou nitwit, the mom and Lydia are so unbelievably self-centered, and Lady Catherine is the most malicious old hag of all time. Even Lizzie bothered me because her character was very contradictory. It was said several times how she was so good-natured and tended not to dwell on things but, uh, that’s literally the exact opposite of everything she did??
Also the ending was so abrupt. Not in plot, but the last paragraph wasn’t worthy of being the end.
Next, the writing style. I get it, it’s an old book. But I don’t want to read a thousand sentences strung together by semicolons and commas! The pronouns were never clear so it took me twice as long to make sense of everything. The names were inconsistent and that muddled things.
I know this probably makes me look bad and like ~she doesn’t *understand* classics~ but got news for ya! I read a million classics in high school! I know how to read! Jane Eyre was better!
If you got this far, GOD bless you. 1 star for at least making me want to keep reading if only to see all these terrible people get their just desserts.
ALSO, I am convinced that this *lovely* copy is in fact faulty, because there were many grammatical and spelling errors aside from the variations in both due to the time period. And the FONT. The font they used for the “handwritten letters?” Basically illegible. Actual handwriting would have been better.
Plot= Elizabeth Bennett’s love life. Lizzie is the younger sister to sweet yet naive Jane, and older sister to Lydia (the absolute WORST) and Kitty (not much better). Mary is hardly worth noting considering she was mentioned maybe 4 times. Lizzie’s mom is the most insufferable woman of all time, and Lizzie’s father is so apathetic to everything that he is utterly useless.
And the romance! I’m sorry, but if a guy ignores you then gossips about you but later proposes, would YOU accept? Hell no! Idc about all the great stuff he secretly did or how misunderstood he was-they maybe spent a total of an hour together the whole book!
Plus so many plot points were completely unnecessary. The book could have been cut in half, Jane.
So many of these people were unlikeable. Mr. Collins is a holier-than-thou nitwit, the mom and Lydia are so unbelievably self-centered, and Lady Catherine is the most malicious old hag of all time. Even Lizzie bothered me because her character was very contradictory. It was said several times how she was so good-natured and tended not to dwell on things but, uh, that’s literally the exact opposite of everything she did??
Also the ending was so abrupt. Not in plot, but the last paragraph wasn’t worthy of being the end.
Next, the writing style. I get it, it’s an old book. But I don’t want to read a thousand sentences strung together by semicolons and commas! The pronouns were never clear so it took me twice as long to make sense of everything. The names were inconsistent and that muddled things.
I know this probably makes me look bad and like ~she doesn’t *understand* classics~ but got news for ya! I read a million classics in high school! I know how to read! Jane Eyre was better!
If you got this far, GOD bless you. 1 star for at least making me want to keep reading if only to see all these terrible people get their just desserts.
ALSO, I am convinced that this *lovely* copy is in fact faulty, because there were many grammatical and spelling errors aside from the variations in both due to the time period. And the FONT. The font they used for the “handwritten letters?” Basically illegible. Actual handwriting would have been better.
lighthearted
fast-paced
Still my favorite classic to this day. When I first started reading this book I struggled with the language because I was so used to simple writing and modern day language. It took me about an hour of reading out loud to finally find a rhythm in reading the book. The creation of Austen’s characters makes me smile so much and the way she influenced the world around her. The love story and the creation of connections was perfectly paced in my thoughts and highlights love in different lights. Not to mention that the book exemplifies many different relationships and how they developed through different struggles. This is the type of story that lives rent free in my mind and if I had to recommend a classic, it would be this one right here. So delicately written with memorable quotes and even more memorable moments.
Entertaining but lacks the heart of the original story, almost to the point of mockery. Also didnt really care for the art work, this kind of adaptation is going to appeal to a very small market, maybe someone who doesnt want to read the actual novel and would like the short version but your missing the feel of the period.