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murdy's review against another edition
5.0
Re-read since the new movie came out! I know it’s difficult to make a quiet/shy lead “interesting” in film. Everyone wants an Elizabeth Bennet because it’s easy to portray that. But I’d love to see a movie do Anne justice one day. Also Fredrick Wentworth deserved better. He isn’t a pouty Darcy, he has all his own faults but pouty isn’t one of them!
This was always one of my favorite books. Anne is less lively and witty but kinder and more grown up than most of Austen’s heroines. I cannot say I’d be as forgiving as she is about the past, but I find the concepts of this novel very true to today. Finding one’s own mind and opinions, and having faith in them isn’t something a 19 year old should necessarily be expected to know. I found this book so relatable, painful, funny…a lot painful but as sweet as I remember.
This was always one of my favorite books. Anne is less lively and witty but kinder and more grown up than most of Austen’s heroines. I cannot say I’d be as forgiving as she is about the past, but I find the concepts of this novel very true to today. Finding one’s own mind and opinions, and having faith in them isn’t something a 19 year old should necessarily be expected to know. I found this book so relatable, painful, funny…a lot painful but as sweet as I remember.
saraspock's review against another edition
5.0
I just don’t think it can get much better than Persuasion.
rbk28's review against another edition
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
3.75
mmorabu's review against another edition
5.0
Sigh, this is for the delusional girlies but also it's some of Jane Austen at her best. It's funny, has her signature irony, social commentary on women's roles in society, and I really like that rumination re love towards the end. Also the letter, everyone loves the letter, I love the letter, and I think we need to bring love letters back:
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan."
Like I'm sorry she really wrote this and thought I'd be okay?? I will say, on this read when Anne clocked that Wentworth may still be into her, the cynicism in me really jumped out (and I'm also like damn what happened to me??) and I was like, ok sure but it's a fluffy romance! Don't know why she keeps pairing cousins together, and yes I am aware it wasn't as weird back then.
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago. Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant. You alone have brought me to Bath. For you alone, I think and plan."
Like I'm sorry she really wrote this and thought I'd be okay?? I will say, on this read when Anne clocked that Wentworth may still be into her, the cynicism in me really jumped out (and I'm also like damn what happened to me??) and I was like, ok sure but it's a fluffy romance! Don't know why she keeps pairing cousins together, and yes I am aware it wasn't as weird back then.
laurenhoya's review against another edition
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
4.0
chandlerkircher's review against another edition
4.0
"I can listen no longer in silence. I must speak to you by such means as are within my reach. You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago."
annamarialectora's review against another edition
3.0
Novela con las características principales de los personajes típicos de esta autora. No obstante y aunque es una novela más corta, la he encontrado más lenta y menos rica en detalles y diálogos que [b:SENTIDO Y SENSIBILIDAD jane austen|48336139|SENTIDO Y SENSIBILIDAD jane austen|Jane Austen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1569955584l/48336139._SY75_.jpg|73608574] y [b:ORGULLO Y PREJUICIO|41817996|ORGULLO Y PREJUICIO|Jane Austen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1536794092l/41817996._SY75_.jpg|65257769]. Se va animando progresivamente.
treeandme's review against another edition
5.0
I didn't think it was possible but I loved this book even more than Pride and Prejudice. I love Charles Musgrove soo much, he's hilarious.