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Manga Classics: Pride and Prejudice
by Po Tse, Stacy King
An absolute headache to read from start to finish. Never again. I detested it. How can anyone think this is a classic? How can the blurb boast “light and bright and sparkling dialogue”? Every character has swallowed a thesaurus and virtually every line needed to be double checked to make sure I understood what the hell they were going on about. Almost 400 pages of this shit.
Did they really talk like this? All these jobless layabouts whose idea of fun is to walk clockwise and then anti-clockwise around the living room? Their lives are so empty that they fill them up with these big pompous words and overthink every single phrase and gesture. And I’m not just talking about the characters. I’m talking about the author too. This book spent far too long in the oven.
Ugh. Everything is just SO overexplained and the characters overexamine everything. And the reader has to suffer through it.
If by some insane chance I receive a head injury, lose all memory of the story and have to read this again, I’d read the last two chapters first, just so I can understand everyone’s motives.
Did they really talk like this? All these jobless layabouts whose idea of fun is to walk clockwise and then anti-clockwise around the living room? Their lives are so empty that they fill them up with these big pompous words and overthink every single phrase and gesture. And I’m not just talking about the characters. I’m talking about the author too. This book spent far too long in the oven.
Ugh. Everything is just SO overexplained and the characters overexamine everything. And the reader has to suffer through it.
If by some insane chance I receive a head injury, lose all memory of the story and have to read this again, I’d read the last two chapters first, just so I can understand everyone’s motives.