This book is incredibly vapid and matter-of-fact, most of the characters are insufferable, and I just don’t care about rich people problems.
People find it funny… I guess Mrs. Bennett and Mr. Collins, two of the most insufferable characters, are the funniest?
The prose is really repetitive. I can’t believe someone likened it to Moby Dick in recommending it to me.
The only two characters with any excuse of character development have their character stifled constantly by their shyness and fear of acting in a poorly mannered way. Their interactions with each other are great, but are dangled in front of the reader like a carrot on a stick and then promptly resolved in just a few pages.
Do any of you like this book? I really want to know what I missed. I have never read such a critically acclaimed book and come out the other end so resentful.
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If you thought the characters in P&P were insufferable, you might actually like Austen’s Emma—the main character is even more insufferable, but that’s the point of the story and it’s used to good effect.
Do any of you like this book?
I do, provided saying that does not imply its my favorite book ever. I like a lot, that being said.
Hard to tell why one likes/dislikes a book (which doesn’t make the book bad, btw). Even less someone I don’t know. What are you usually reading? What kind of books are you enjoying more?
I loved it from the very first paragraph ;)
It’s a really great book and it’s not that difficult either, but it’s also not the one I would suggest to readers that have mostly been reading, say, light contemporary stories. I’m not being dismissive here, it’s just that a book written for readers in the early XIX century had very different expectations from said readers, and readers also had different expectations. Hence my question to the op.
