"I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.
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Some of my happiest, and most lookedforwardto days of the year are the ones that I reserve for the rereading of Pride and Prejudice.
To quote Austen herself from Sense and Sensibility: if a book is well written, I always find it too short, explains perfectly how I feel about this book no wonder she called this my own darling child, for, for me, PampP is perfect in every conceivable way.
Its the kind of book, the moment you finished reading, you are tempted to start over again immediately, However, reviewing this is another matter Im excited, enraptured, but at the same time agitated, knowing that its impossible to do justice to the author nor to the book.
"But such of us as wished to learn never wanted the means, We were always encouraged to read, and had all the masters that were necessary, "
During my first reading of Pride and Prejudice, I had known I was hugely underqualified to review this book, though at the same time I had hoped, if I read all of her books, I might, in time, write an acceptable review for this masterpiece.
Now that Ive read them all, and also PampP for a second time, all I can say is I still dont consider myself remotely qualified to write an objective review.
But it is impossible not share ones opinions after reading this: this book, for me, is as best as it could get, So, for the time being, Ill have to be content with writing what I consider to be a subjective overview, which, Im certain, does not do much justice.
However, I hope that someday my sense in classical literature would become good enough to truly appreciate how remarkable this book is,
"You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, "
"Importance may sometimes be purchased too dearly, "
"What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant"
Starting with the plot, which has been thoroughly analyzed, criticized, and commented upon by thousands of readers, is surprisingly, at a glance, not that original, especially if you see this as a pure romance novel.
True, there are many complications resulting from multiple relationships or marriages, but overall, there are many similarities, But what this special is Austens narrative: the sly humor, witty observations, unique lens through which she views the society, and the deeper understanding of morals of characters, are all perfectly concocted using her flawless writing style.
And then theres Elizabeth aside from inheriting traits like humor and wit from Austen, she is lively, curious, confident, but without becoming too perfect like some of the Austens other protagonists.
She is as delightful as it could get, Rest of the characters are also similarly entertaining, with each one infused with a myriad of qualities to keep the story interesting, I dont think there was a single poorly written character in this book, and thats the first time Ive ever said that about a book.
And I dont wish a single thing had turned out differently in this story, With the exception of some of the childrens books, thats also a first for me, Sometimes its hard to believe, that this has been written overyears ago, or this ever becoming dated, Unlike with most romance novels, you will not see the reasoning, or common sense become lost in the middle of the story, which I think will help maintain that timelessness.
"Affectation of candour is common enough one meets with it everywhere, But to be candid without ostentation or design to take the good of everybodys character and make it still better, and say nothing of the badbelongs to you alone.
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This second reading of the book only strengthened above opinions from my first read, If anything, everything felt even clearer, making the reading experience further satisfying, The only minor exception came with Lydias plotline, Compared to my opinion from the first reading, where I had been a bit angry with her, has been somewhat shifted a little towards sympathy this time.
Obviously, same couldnt be said about Wickham though, I also felt like that every single word here is essential during this second read, Although I didnt skip a single word during the first time, I believe I enjoyed each sentence a lot more this time,
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously, A person may be proud without being vain, Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us, "
Until now that is till I finish my second read, Ive never watched any of the TV or movie adaptations of this book.
To be honest, I didnt want to have any negative impact towards the perfect imaginary picture Austen had created, But after this second read, I decided to watch themovie, theTV series and theseries, and couldnt resist sharing some of my thought.
As much as I appreciate the effort, themovie did not prove to be a worthy portrayal, at least for me, Maybe its the modern characters, or what had to be removed due to time restrictions, or deviations from original book, but at the end of the day, I cannot say I loved it that much.
But theseries was quite the surprise! It literally had almost every single dialog from the book, with a few exceptions at the end, It did add up to five and a half hours of play time, but that was totally worth it, If you loved the book, and havent watched the series, do watch it immediately, As for theseries, though I loved it a lot, it fell a tiny bit behind theseries, But both those series are commendable portrayals,
“Nothing is more deceitful,” said Darcy, “than the appearance of humility,
"The misfortune of speaking with bitterness is a most natural consequence of the prejudices"
As for this review, Im going to label this as a work in progress, which Im hoping to update after each reread.
"The distance is nothing when one has a motive"
The happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!sitelinkmy spotify playlist
“You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.
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i want a mr, darcy, but this world is full with wickhams and collins, ugh, I am so unqualified to write about this book,
I am physically unqualified, because I could write infinite words about how much I love this book, and I type in a weird way that makes my wrists hurt so infinity is simply not going to happen.
I am emotionally unqualified, because I lack emotional intelligence when it comes to my own feelings and the idea of trying to explain how I feel about this book is overwhelming.
I am spiritually unqualified, because of the aforementioned overwhelmedness,
I am also unqualified generally, in the grand scheme of things, because so many people have written so intelligently about the wonderfulness of this book and I have nothing better to add.
Just more rambling like this,
I read a lot of romance, and if you want to venture a theory as to why, Id love to hear it, I very seldom like it, so maybe its a masochist tendency, Maybe Im a glutton for the attention that writing negative reviews of popular books gives me, Definitely not that one, since the few mean comments always outweigh the far more numerous nice ones in my stupid brain, Whatever.
I read a lot of romance, but I almost never feel anything about it,
I LOVE this book, It gives me uheveryone stop reading this to save me the embarrassment and allow me to preserve my rough and tumble reputation, . . butterflies.
I know. Im cringing forever. But its true.
This is a lovely book, Its beautifully written, its funny, its filled with characters who feel full and real and different from one another even though half of them have the same name, and it truly is the best love story ever told.
What more could you ask for! Spoiled rotten, the lot of you,
Bottom line: A dream,
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my heart has space for exactlypages.
the entirety of my heart is made up of Pride amp Prejudice, nothing else. NOTE: The review you are about to read was written in,! That's overyears ago! I wasand thought I was the smartest person ever! In all honesty, I barely remember this book, So, negative comments regarding my intelligence are no longer necessary, They will be ignored. As they have been for probablyyears now, CARRY ON!
P, S. Can we all just LOL at my use of the words "mindnumbing balls" HA,
This book is quite possibly the most insipid novel I have ever read in my life, Why this book is so highly treasured by society is beyond me, It ispages of nothing, The characters are like wispy shadows of something that could be interesting, the language that could be beautiful ends up becoming difficult to decipher and lead me more than once to skip over entire paragraphs because I became tired of having to stumble through them only to emerge unsatisfied, and the plot is nonexistent, as though Austen one day decided she wanted to write a novel and began without having any idea what would happen except that there would be a boy and a girl who seemingly didnt like each other but in the end got married.
The story really probably could have been told in aboutpages, but Austen makes us slog throughpages of mindnumbing balls and dinnerparties, I dont care what anyone says, this is not great literature, This is a snore.
sitelinkRead my review of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, .stars. Confession this book gave me an earthshattering Janeaustegasm and I am feeling a bit spent and vulnerable at the moment, so please bear with me.
You see, I decided I wanted to get more literated by reading the "classicals" in between my steady flow of science fiction, mystery and horror.
The question was where to begin,
After sherlocking through my Easton Press collection, I started by pulling out my Dickens and reading sitelinkA Tale of Two Cities which I thought was jawdropping AMAZO and left me feeling warm, satisfied and content.
It also made me made retrospectively pleased that I named my youngest daughter Sydney,
After Two City “Tale”ing, I decided to give this book a whirl as I kept seeing it on GR lists of "goodest books ever.
" However, I must admit I was hesitant going in to this for two big reasons, One, I thought it might be a bit too romantical for me, The second, and much more distressing, reason was that sitelinkTwilight was on many of the same lists as this book, Austen fans should pull a nutty over that one,
So needless to say I went into this thinking I might hate it, Well, for the,th time in my life at least according to my wifes records, . . I was wrong!!! I absolutely loved this book and had a mammoth, raging hearton for it from the opening scene at the breakfast table when Father Witty Mr.
Bennet is giving sly sarcasm to Mrs, Mommie Put Upon. I literaphorically could not get enough of this story, I was instantly captivated by the characters and Elizabeth Bennet, the main protagonist, immediately became one of my all time favorite characters, Mr. Darcy joined that party as soon as he showed up in the narrative as I thought he was terrific as well,
Overall, the writing could not have been better, It was descriptive, lush and brilliant, The story could not have been more engaging or intelligent and the characters could not have been more magnificentastic, Elizabeth and Fitz are both smart, witty, selfconfident and good, Austen could not have written them better, Oh, and I am sorry if this is a bit of a minor spoiler but I need to add that George Wickham is a cockblocking braggadouche of startling proportions.
I needed to say that and now I feel better,
This one has made it onto my list of All Time Favorite novels and is truly one of the classics that lives up to its billing.
A FINAL WORD TO THE GUYS:, . . Guys, do not fear the Austen, . . embrace the Austen HIGHEST POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATION!!! it is official: now everyone on the planet has read this book, i was the last holdout, and being the last person excluding those who are just being born, . . now i am sorry i didn't like it more, i knew going into it that i was not a jane austen girl i had read two others and thought them bloodless and mercantile, but everyone said to me, "well, you haven't read pride and prejudice is why you don't like her, " which i thought might be valid, but it's not. because i still don't care, this is not the greatest love story of all time, it's more like the most amiable alliance of compatible feelings that ends up in a mutually agreeable union and
merging of fortunes and temperaments, i mean, really. this book needs heathcliff to come barreling in on a stallion all wet from the moors to ravish all five of these daughters and show them what a real man is all about.
now there's a love story, . .
sitelinkcome to my blog! ing few masterpiececlassics is like undermining them, I was assiduously searching through my pile of treasuredclassics to pick up one to reread, Rereading helps me to exponentially increase my thirst for books and quench it at the same time helps me with my vanity, hope not sounding like Mr.
Darcy
This novel is not only about sweetromance between Elizabeth and Mr, Darcy, but it also helps transporting the reader to the Jane Austen"Regency Era" times, savour the culture, and brims with wit and humour, There are suggestible amp obvious differences between "Victorian Era" and "Regency Era" culture settings, and I relish both!!
The Bennet couple is simply adorable.
Mrs. Bennet is just like any mother of olden or modern times, eagerly seeking a suitable groom for her daughter, and she has five lovely daughters :
Mrs.
Bennet is hyperbolic. Austen has been scorned for portraying her the way she was, but I assume at all levels of society irrespective of the era, we see many Mrs.
Bennets.
Mr. Bennet is chilledout but maybe not detached, and is sarcastic to the core, His humour though insulting at times is like a whiff of liveliness!
Elizabeth is quick, sassy, intelligent and ofcourse "prejudiced"! Many girls correlate with her! She is searching for someone worth her time and is commonsensical.
When she meets Mr Darcy, his pride and rudeness, makes Elizabeth to write him off instantly! Her constant rejections for his advancements build a humility in him and attraction for her.
What you give, you get back, is the chemistry we witness between them majorly!
Mr, Darcy in reality is the sweetest, considerate, standoffish illustrates himself with pride due to fear of falling into the wrong but is mistook, His characterpresentation is totally contorted, and I strongly feel this divergence of his characterportrayal is what makes "Pride and Prejudice"!
It has the sweetest romance, culture depiction, sarcastic humor and much more.
Everytime I savour it, I decipher new meanings based on what my soul thirsts for, from this bundle of cutestlove, I literally shoutout when I read through all the lovescenes between Elizabeth and Darcy, literally obsessed :D
There are tons of impactful quotes, so handpicking few wasnt easy, but mentioning “a few” in nochronological order:
"I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love.
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“The distance is nothing when one has a motive, ”
“A ladys imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment, ”
"Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously, A person may be proud without being vain, Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us, "
GRs doesn't allow more thanstars, so virtual infinite for this classic ! ,