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3.11 AVERAGE
3.11 AVERAGE
Some nice moments, but the story needed to be better adapted to a more modern context. All of those ladies needed jobs!
Strong character development:
Yes
fast-paced
I was so excited for the Jane Austen project. I shouldn't have been. I have learned now that you should never mess with a classic.
I'm glad I decided to listen to this instead of reading it because it went a lot faster. I liked it ok but for a re-telling it was a little too on the nose.
I was so skeptical when I picked this up to read, well opened it on my kindle, but I was pleasantly surprised. The transferring of Austen to a modern setting worked well and I love the way that technology was integrated into the story. For instance, instead of Marianne being talked about around town instead her interaction with Willoughby was placed on YouTube. Yes, it's not Austen exactly but it was a brilliant rendering of a classic story. I'd highly recommend this :)
I've read some pretty bad Jane Austen retellings in my day, but this one takes the cake.
What I like about Jane Austen is that despite writing over 200 years ago I feel I understand the characters, this retelling though... Who are these people? They are like a combination of "Absolutely Fabulous" and some British reality show.
Apparently, HarperCollins is embarking on a project of bringing all the Jane Austen classics into the 21st century with modernized retellings. I found this updated version of [b:Sense and Sensibility|14935|Sense and Sensibility|Jane Austen|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1397245675l/14935._SY75_.jpg|2809709] to be charming and delightful. Trollope's retelling is true to the characters of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood as Austen wrote them, even if Elinor is in her last year of architecture school and Marianne is a talented, if unambitious, guitar player. Okay, so it doesn't make as much sense in the 21st century that three grown women can't support themselves than it did in Austen's time, but I was willing to overlook the plot holes because the Dashwoods are such likable women - yes, even little Margaret, who's a bit more of a bratty teen in this version than in previous incarnations. One caveat, though: if you simply cannot abide the use of such terms as "amazeballs" and "totes amazeballs" in dialogue, steer clear of this novel. This branch of the illustrious Trollope family tree is perhaps a little too good at capturing 2010s textspeak and slang.
Sense & Sensibility has never been my favorite Austen novel, I always struggled to like the characters especially Marianne, but I have read it, like all Austen novels, more than once.
I have read several adaptations, sequels and modernisations of Pride & Prejudice, but never had I read one for S&S.
This is a story pretty faithful to the original, with only minor necessary changes to accommodate modern times. Something is lost with this however, but it cannot be helped. The original would have been very different if Facebook had existed then.
Overall I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next one in this series.
I have read several adaptations, sequels and modernisations of Pride & Prejudice, but never had I read one for S&S.
This is a story pretty faithful to the original, with only minor necessary changes to accommodate modern times. Something is lost with this however, but it cannot be helped. The original would have been very different if Facebook had existed then.
Overall I enjoyed it and am looking forward to the next one in this series.