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Post subject: Jane Austen  Posted: October 24th, 2005, 2:18 pm |
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Who has read any of Jane Austens books?
I've read Pride and Prejudice and Emma, they are both brilliant books. I prefer Emma though, probably just because its the first one I read. They are both very well written, I think.
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Post subject: Posted: October 24th, 2005, 8:33 pm |
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I like Jane Austen! My favorite would have to be Pride & Prejudice, although I've read Emma and Sense & Sensibility too. Right now I'm actually reading Jane's "Sanditon and Other Stories" - I really wish she had finished the story "The Watsons" which is in the book; I love it!
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Post subject: Posted: October 24th, 2005, 8:58 pm |
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I love Austen. I've read Pride and Prejudice, a bit of Sense & Sensibility, and Northanger Abbey, which I thoroughly enjoyed.
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Post subject: Posted: October 25th, 2005, 6:34 pm |
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I've read Pride and Prejudice, which I thought was quite hilarious. Maybe partly for the fact that I was reading a LARGE PRINT version, and that just made it even more comical. Ha ha ha. And I've read Northanger Abbey. (However you spell it!) I definately like that one. It's my favourite.
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Post subject: Posted: October 26th, 2005, 1:11 am |
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Jane Austen is really good. I own Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma. I know that in general people love P & P and consider it her masterpiece, but personally I get far more out of Sense and Sensibility. Somehow the character feel a tiny bit more realistic to me.
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Post subject: Posted: October 26th, 2005, 6:52 pm |
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Oh joy! Pride and Prejudice is one of my most favorite books of all times. I find Jane Austen's sense of humor hilarious. Right now I'm reading Persuasion- I'm not very far into it, so I can't tell how much I like it yet, but I've been told that it is one of her best.
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Post subject: Posted: October 26th, 2005, 10:09 pm |
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I love Jane Austen. Just recently, I got this book containg all of her novels. It's got over 1000 pages in it, so it's gonna take a long time to read.  _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: October 29th, 2005, 5:25 pm |
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Hmmm... I've read Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensiblity and Emma!!
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Post subject: Posted: October 30th, 2005, 4:00 pm |
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Post subject: Posted: October 31st, 2005, 3:54 pm |
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Eruve Ivreniel wrote: Jane Austen is really good. I own Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma. I know that in general people love P & P and consider it her masterpiece, but personally I get far more out of Sense and Sensibility. Somehow the character feel a tiny bit more realistic to me.
I don't know, my problem with S&S was that none of the characters were quite likable (imo). Elinor is too...sensible, kind of devoid of emotion, and Marianne's too darn naive and silly. Edward is a bit of a milquetoast, Colonel Brandon is too old, and Willoughby is...well, Willoughby  Besides, I was quite disappointed that the extent of the conclusion of the relationship between Marianne and Brandon was basically "In time Marianne came to see how much Brandon loved her, he proposed, they got married, etc. etc." Where's the fun in that? _________________
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Post subject: Posted: November 1st, 2005, 4:27 pm |
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i think the endings always seem sort of hurried...it bothered me the first time I read Emma and there was only a tiny paragraph saying that they got married and lived happily ever after, while so much of the story had sort of lead up to it. I felt like it wasn't finished, or that she just got bored writing it and tacked on an obligitory ending...
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Post subject: Posted: November 10th, 2005, 12:11 am |
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I am finally making progress in Persuasion, and it is fantastic. As with all Jane Austen books, it took me a few chapters to really get into it, but after that it is intrigueing. This book is a little less light-hearted than her others, it is quite sad, actually. Yet Jane still inserts her brilliant, delightfully akward scenes here and there. 
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Post subject: Posted: November 21st, 2005, 10:33 am |
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I'm reading Pride & Prejudice right now!
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Post subject: Posted: November 21st, 2005, 1:49 pm |
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Lady Enelya wrote: I love Jane Austen. Just recently, I got this book containg all of her novels. It's got over 1000 pages in it, so it's gonna take a long time to read. Yesh! I just bought that Yesterday! I'm excited! I'm reading Pride and Prejudice right now! I like it, her writing style is so eloquent!
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Post subject: Posted: November 21st, 2005, 8:25 pm |
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I just got done with Pride and Prejudice today, and thought it was great!
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Post subject: Posted: November 30th, 2005, 7:06 pm |
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Jane Austen is my favorite author! My favorite is Pride and Prejudice. Love that book!
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