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Austen-ites tend to look down on this one as the lesser of the six, but this is one of my favorites because it is so fun and light. It's breezy, and this may sound weird, but I think it most shows what Jane would have been like as a friend.
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I really wanted to like this! In the beginning, I thought it would be a 5-star book for me. I thought it might turn out to be my top favorite Jane Austen. But somehow it just didn't turn into the book I thought it was going to be.
Things I liked:
* I enjoyed all the talk of novels and reading - and would have liked even more of that.
* The conversations between Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland were my favorite parts of the book. I might go back and reread just those parts sometime.
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Things I liked:
* I enjoyed all the talk of novels and reading - and would have liked even more of that.
* The conversations between Henry Tilney and Catherine Morland were my favorite parts of the book. I might go back and reread just those parts sometime.
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I did not like this book as much as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, or Sense and Sensibility. There were times where I was completely annoyed at the main character and her dramatics, but Austen captured the apparently timeless insecurities found in many youthful girls. Very little of significance actually happens in this book, but Catharine's dramatic flare turns everything into high suspense. At first, I thought I was not enjoying this book, since it is light on the romance that I have come to expec
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Not my favorite Austen, but still an enjoyable read. It was interesting to see how see was still finding her style in narrating as this was one of her earlier books, and her heroine didn't have the usual spark and wit of Emma or Elizabeth Bennett.
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Apr 04, 2021
Cora
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I did not like this novel as much as other Austen novels I had read. I felt like I was reading about teen drama and angst, just set a couple hundred years ago and I was not really in the mood. Maybe if I had read the book rather than listened to the audiobook I would appreciated the satire and humor more, but instead I just felt like I was in the head of an annoying teenager. I don't mind immature teenagers in general (in fact I enjoyed reading Emma) but I just did not care to listen to her fret
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Mar 15, 2008
Christina (AKA Babbling)
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it was amazing
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May 07, 2008
Julianne
marked it as 1001-books-to-read
Nov 12, 2013
Tehreem
marked it as to-read
Nov 15, 2013
Heather
marked it as to-read
Oct 23, 2015
Kim DeCina
marked it as to-read
