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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
very very gossipy, which did make it hard to know what was going on
I don’t like the 39 year age gap
I completely forgot about the third sister by the end
tw: illness, men, greed
I don’t like the 39 year age gap
I completely forgot about the third sister by the end
tw: illness, men, greed
3.5 STARS:
I liked it but I didn't really care about it, I guess? The couples didn't interest me that much. I think I'd like Pride and Prejudice more.
I liked it but I didn't really care about it, I guess? The couples didn't interest me that much. I think I'd like Pride and Prejudice more.
lighthearted
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
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
tense
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
My first time reading Sense and Sensibility and I really enjoyed it. My mind kept going back to the adaptations I had seen but by the end the characters were their own. Colonel Brandon is truly the only proper grown-up Jane ever wrote and it's hilarious. It's interesting to me that this book has both the only of Jane's heroes to be called primarily by his first name (Edward) and her only hero who is given no first name at all (Colonel Brandon).
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Elinor and Marianne Dashwood might be very close, but the sisters couldn't be more different. Elinor, the eldest, is rational and cool-headed. Marianne, the middle child, is passionate and can never hide her feelings. As they both meet men who catch their respective eyes, they will have to help each other through the ups and downs of falling in love.
This is my fourth Austen - the others in order being Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. If you don't know me well, you may not know that Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book of all time. I recently purchased all of her full-length novels in the Signature Classics edition so I thought now was the time to pick up this book that I've been saying I'd read since I was 13 (I'm 20).
I had fun with this, though I can't say that I'm attached to these characters as much as I am to those in P&P and Emma (maybe I just need to watch an adaptation!). I liked not knowing how it would end, which is not common with classics in my case. The humor, particularly surrounding their sister-in-law, was spot-on and characteristically Austen. I liked the care that the sisters clearly have for each other and how they take care of one another. Lucy's first one-on-one with Elinor was such a treat to read - what a twist. However, I honestly don't love either of the couples that we're meant to root for. One of the couples barely ever interact on the page and in the other, the guy doesn't deserve her and he isn't on the page long enough to balance out my mediocre-at-best opinion of him. As much as this has a HEA, I definitely think both of our main characters deserved better. Considering that marriage is always what these types of books build up to, this can't have been as much of a favorite of mine as Emma and Pride and Prejudice are. I'm thinking that the Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet adaptation will soften me to them, though, so look out for that!
This is my fourth Austen - the others in order being Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Northanger Abbey. If you don't know me well, you may not know that Pride and Prejudice is my favorite book of all time. I recently purchased all of her full-length novels in the Signature Classics edition so I thought now was the time to pick up this book that I've been saying I'd read since I was 13 (I'm 20).
I had fun with this, though I can't say that I'm attached to these characters as much as I am to those in P&P and Emma (maybe I just need to watch an adaptation!). I liked not knowing how it would end, which is not common with classics in my case. The humor, particularly surrounding their sister-in-law, was spot-on and characteristically Austen. I liked the care that the sisters clearly have for each other and how they take care of one another. Lucy's first one-on-one with Elinor was such a treat to read - what a twist. However, I honestly don't love either of the couples that we're meant to root for. One of the couples barely ever interact on the page and in the other, the guy doesn't deserve her and he isn't on the page long enough to balance out my mediocre-at-best opinion of him. As much as this has a HEA, I definitely think both of our main characters deserved better. Considering that marriage is always what these types of books build up to, this can't have been as much of a favorite of mine as Emma and Pride and Prejudice are. I'm thinking that the Emma Thompson/Kate Winslet adaptation will soften me to them, though, so look out for that!
unfortunately didn’t quite grip me like other Austen novels. i felt as if i was trudging through mud for 7/8ths of the book then all of a sudden plunging into an ice bath right at the end. i appreciated Austen’s masterful wit and characterisation, but this is not her best.
The ending makes the book, and it is pretty good. Unfortunately, getting to the ending is an absolute slog
Una vez más, Jane Austen nunca decepciona. Aunque he visto la adaptación cinematográfica de Sentido y sensibilidad varias veces, quería leer la novela en algún momento. Y no ha podido ser mejor. Devoré las páginas en pocos días. Leer a Jane Austen es siempre una experiencia totalmente inmersiva, no sólo en la época en la que ambienta sus novelas, sino en la sociedad que la vivió.
Marianne y Elinor son dos hermanas con personalidades completamente diferentes. Una de ellas se deja llevar por las pasiones, las emociones y la efervescencia de la juventud; y la otra, por el decoro, el deber y la razón. A raíz de una lamentable situación económica que las deja sin hogar, se ven obligadas a mudarse, junto a su hermana pequeña y su madre, a una pequeña casa de campo en Barton. Aquí ocurrirán una serie de acontecimientos, por los que ambas verán enfrentadas sus maneras de ver la vida, y sus desavenencias sobre el amor.
Me ha encantado. Es alucinante cómo esta autora construye sus historias, aparentemente anodinas y con una trama más o menos interesante, y consigue que realmente pegues el ojo a la mirilla y observes la sociedad de la época, la plenitud de sus personajes, siempre inolvidables y familiares. Cómo plasma de forma tan inteligente los pensamientos y emociones de estos en diálogos tan interesantes, irónicos, con ese estilo tan elegante que la caracteriza.
Sólo me queda la pena que ya con esta novela y habiendo leído Orgullo y Prejuicio, no me quede mucho más por leer de ella. No obstante, volveré a releerlas en un futuro, eso por supuesto.
Marianne y Elinor son dos hermanas con personalidades completamente diferentes. Una de ellas se deja llevar por las pasiones, las emociones y la efervescencia de la juventud; y la otra, por el decoro, el deber y la razón. A raíz de una lamentable situación económica que las deja sin hogar, se ven obligadas a mudarse, junto a su hermana pequeña y su madre, a una pequeña casa de campo en Barton. Aquí ocurrirán una serie de acontecimientos, por los que ambas verán enfrentadas sus maneras de ver la vida, y sus desavenencias sobre el amor.
Me ha encantado. Es alucinante cómo esta autora construye sus historias, aparentemente anodinas y con una trama más o menos interesante, y consigue que realmente pegues el ojo a la mirilla y observes la sociedad de la época, la plenitud de sus personajes, siempre inolvidables y familiares. Cómo plasma de forma tan inteligente los pensamientos y emociones de estos en diálogos tan interesantes, irónicos, con ese estilo tan elegante que la caracteriza.
Sólo me queda la pena que ya con esta novela y habiendo leído Orgullo y Prejuicio, no me quede mucho más por leer de ella. No obstante, volveré a releerlas en un futuro, eso por supuesto.