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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Another great story by Jane Austin, though at times it dragged a bit. Overall, the romance, the class issues, etc...were all present and written and presented well. She was a master writer, Jane Austin, and this was no disappointment.
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
In all honesty this is probably a 3* but i couldn’t do that to a Jane Austen book. Whilst she was writing this Jane was going through some family trauma, and this reads as though she is frustrated that women still did not have control over their own lives. Written after P&P there are some similarities but, the length of the book and the plodding story - that drags up and until the last few chapters - does a disservice to Jane Austen’s writing. The ending is rounded up as to be expected but the book should have been shortened.
lighthearted
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
No
The drama did not disappoint but the main characters are lame
I started reading Mansfield Park, in part because I wanted to better enrich myself with English classics. I tried reading Pride & Prejudice and couldn't finish that so I was like, well maybe I'll like something a little less catty instead.
Jane Austen isn't for the faint of heart and I know most people know this. The problem with her, for me, is the fact that the synopsis reads as if it will be light chick lit but, as it is written in the 18th century, it becomes similar to that of a reading of Shakespeare or Tolstoy or something equally taxing. Reading taxing literature is fine if there's like some really profound story underneath but when you have a plot about a mouse, poorly treated Cinderella-esque girl named Fannie living with her mean cousins and in her love with the one nice cousin she has it's just like: Can't I be using this effort for something more useful?
Which is what I am in doing, in taking this off my currently-read shelf. Someday there is a place for this book and I. Not now, however.
Jane Austen isn't for the faint of heart and I know most people know this. The problem with her, for me, is the fact that the synopsis reads as if it will be light chick lit but, as it is written in the 18th century, it becomes similar to that of a reading of Shakespeare or Tolstoy or something equally taxing. Reading taxing literature is fine if there's like some really profound story underneath but when you have a plot about a mouse, poorly treated Cinderella-esque girl named Fannie living with her mean cousins and in her love with the one nice cousin she has it's just like: Can't I be using this effort for something more useful?
Which is what I am in doing, in taking this off my currently-read shelf. Someday there is a place for this book and I. Not now, however.
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I didn’t know anything about this one and at first I felt bad for Fanny Price but she started to piss me off towards the end! I wanted her to stop complaining and marry Henry Crawford (who ended up running off with Mariah who seemed like more of laugh anyway TBF).
Somerset Maugham says that Fanny and Edmund “are intolerable prigs and all [his] sympathies go out to the unscrupulous, sprightly, and charming Henry and Mary Crawford” - and I quite agree!!
Somerset Maugham says that Fanny and Edmund “are intolerable prigs and all [his] sympathies go out to the unscrupulous, sprightly, and charming Henry and Mary Crawford” - and I quite agree!!