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amandel 's review for:
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
lighthearted
relaxing
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I’ve read Pride and Prejudice and Emma more times than I can count. Mansfield park and Sense and Sensibility I’ve listened to on audiobook. Someone somewhere wrote that Persuasion was emotionally Austen’s best book. So I picked it up with this hope and the foreknowledge of the weak netflix film adaptation.
Somehow the wording of it is more complicated than the other books. But the meaning is no more profound or worthwhile. In result I skipped past whole paragraphs not bothering to decipher their meaning. The rest of the story didn’t draw me in enough to go about detangling some of the word-spaghetti. Maybe it just wasn’t my time for this book. Maybe Jane Eyre as a preceding novel made this one bland by comparison. The romance is based on poorly described history and the faith we put into statements of how they used to be passionate lovers.
Austen’s manner of skipping the dialogue once *the moment*™️ has arrived really annoyed me this time around as well. I guess I hoped that at least once she wouldn’t shimmy herself out of it with a general description that both parties “said what they ought”. Genuinely sad not to have enjoyed this that much.