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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
emotional
funny
reflective
slow-paced
very much dragged in the middle but the twist made up for it. mrs norris turns into one of the most dislikable literary villains of all time
Mein liebstes von Austen bisher (Überredung und Verstand und Gefühl fehlen noch).
Aber das Ende, wäre ich nicht vorher gespoilert worden, hätte ich das nicht gepackt.
Aber das Ende, wäre ich nicht vorher gespoilert worden, hätte ich das nicht gepackt.
emotional
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I went into Mansfield Park with low expectations since I know that this is generally Austen’s least liked work, but now that I’ve finished it I can say that I had nothing to worry about. This book was laugh out loud funny several times. I’ve heard people complain about Fanny, but I love her—I also like avoiding things that give me anxiety until they simply go away on their own without me having to do anything that changes my routine.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse
emotional
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Is it just me or is every character in this book kind of annoying?
funny
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I'm not quite sure about this book...
it had some good lessons about life and perspective as well as the nature of people but overall, I found the ending just kind of drifted away, as though it was heading somewhere but stopped and suddenly the book was over.
It is a beautiful book and I cannot fault it other than the lack of the story being wound up (which is just a personal thing) I feel that there could have been more, which is in my opinion the tell of a good book.
it had some good lessons about life and perspective as well as the nature of people but overall, I found the ending just kind of drifted away, as though it was heading somewhere but stopped and suddenly the book was over.
It is a beautiful book and I cannot fault it other than the lack of the story being wound up (which is just a personal thing) I feel that there could have been more, which is in my opinion the tell of a good book.
3.5. The whole section about the play was a slog, but it picked up in the second half of the book. Not my favorite Austen, but still worth a read and better than Sense & Sensibility :)
UGH. I mean, with all due respect to Miss Austen, UGH. Getting through this book was like knawing through a chunk of cement. The writing style is so blocky, and yet also so headache-enducingly painful. If 'Persuasion' is Austen at her cleanest, most succinct and most romantic, 'Mansfield Park' must be Austen at her sloppiest, most long-winded and weirdest.
Let's break this down into a few points: 1. Fanny is the original Debbie Downer. She cries about everything, and is both pitiful and spongelike. What an odd choice of protagonist when so many other of Austen's heroines are just so much more interesting. Fanny Price has the charisma of a wet towel someone has left on the bed overnight. I get that she is the model of propriety amidst an island of misfit toy asshole characters, but still -- if this is the hero I'm supposed to root for…God help me.
2. Edmund. Let's talk about what a toolbox Edmund is. He never really says, "Hey sorry I was a smug, pressuring d-bag and tried to nag you into marrying Henry. You were right, that guy was a complete ass. I'm glad you held your ground and kept refusing his proposals of marriage, even when ALL OF US PEER PRESSURED YOU INTO DOING IT". Also, the relationship between him and Fanny is borderline incestuous since they are cousins that have been raised as siblings (the cousins part I could forgive, but the siblings part is…yech.) And the fact that Edmund only kind of sees Fanny as a possible love interest in the last two seconds of the book feels like a throwaway plot point. She's absolutely a consolation prize thrown in at the 11th hour, mostly because all the other women in the story are either Edmund's biological sisters or they're Mary Crawford, who's a crazy b*tch. So, when there is nothing better around, go for Fanny.
3. The novel is strangely paced. About 60% of the time, the plots unfold at the speed of smell, with extremely long and meandering conversations (if I ever had to be in the same room as Mary Crawford in real life I think I'd Vincent van Gogh myself and voluntarily remove my own ears to avoid listening to her talk). Then, as if realizing she still has a great deal of plot points to wrap up, Austen crashes her way through the last 2 chapters at break-neck speed, making the last fifteen pages of the book more or less feel like you're reading word diarrhea.
Jane Austen is a better writer than I am, and will ever be. I am in no way dismissing her as one of the most brilliant minds in literature. But JAYSUS this book was horrible and I hated it and I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
Let's break this down into a few points: 1. Fanny is the original Debbie Downer. She cries about everything, and is both pitiful and spongelike. What an odd choice of protagonist when so many other of Austen's heroines are just so much more interesting. Fanny Price has the charisma of a wet towel someone has left on the bed overnight. I get that she is the model of propriety amidst an island of misfit toy asshole characters, but still -- if this is the hero I'm supposed to root for…God help me.
2. Edmund. Let's talk about what a toolbox Edmund is. He never really says, "Hey sorry I was a smug, pressuring d-bag and tried to nag you into marrying Henry. You were right, that guy was a complete ass. I'm glad you held your ground and kept refusing his proposals of marriage, even when ALL OF US PEER PRESSURED YOU INTO DOING IT". Also, the relationship between him and Fanny is borderline incestuous since they are cousins that have been raised as siblings (the cousins part I could forgive, but the siblings part is…yech.) And the fact that Edmund only kind of sees Fanny as a possible love interest in the last two seconds of the book feels like a throwaway plot point. She's absolutely a consolation prize thrown in at the 11th hour, mostly because all the other women in the story are either Edmund's biological sisters or they're Mary Crawford, who's a crazy b*tch. So, when there is nothing better around, go for Fanny.
3. The novel is strangely paced. About 60% of the time, the plots unfold at the speed of smell, with extremely long and meandering conversations (if I ever had to be in the same room as Mary Crawford in real life I think I'd Vincent van Gogh myself and voluntarily remove my own ears to avoid listening to her talk). Then, as if realizing she still has a great deal of plot points to wrap up, Austen crashes her way through the last 2 chapters at break-neck speed, making the last fifteen pages of the book more or less feel like you're reading word diarrhea.
Jane Austen is a better writer than I am, and will ever be. I am in no way dismissing her as one of the most brilliant minds in literature. But JAYSUS this book was horrible and I hated it and I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
So much going on in this book. Throughout the first part part I couldn't help being struck by how little humanity really changes over time. The competition and vanity and petty jealousies of youth have always been there, it seems. It took me about 200 pages to find Fanny interesting, and then she became equally annoying. This ideal vision of demure, innocent, weak, principled to her own detriment; of feminine perfection made me want to howl in opposition. The themes were interesting, the characters complex, and by the end, I had even mastered the language. I enjoyed the summation at the end, and if Fanny's getting her heart's desire annoyed me just a tiny bit at the end, I couldn't help rooting for her some of the way.