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There are at least 20 different audio editions of this book, and many of them are free on audible, including the featured one with Rosamund Pike. That’s very unusual. Other narrators were better at the beginning but she gets better, and handles male voices well. I am at least half way, but I keep setting it aside, and have to reread big sections when I pick it up again.
I know I saw the movie 20? years ago but I have no memory of it other than I liked the actresses and there was a lot of crying. I think I like the actresses more than I like the characters. I’ve heard Fanny Price called too judgmental, but I find these characters more so.
Have you started it?

I read so many classics when I was in high school, but truthfully, I find that at this point in my life, I just don't love them.
I've had this book forever and do want to finish it, but it is a struggle and I keep finding something I would rather read.)
I'm interested in the whole Sense- Elinor and Sensibility- Marianne within the family and how they play out.
I guess my question is, are you willing to struggle on? I'm not tossing it in yet, but going at a very slow pace. I am currently stuck on page 102

I read so many classics when I was in high school, but truthfully, I find that at this point in my..."
I want to complete it, because now I need to know what happens next, but it also fits the September tag, so we can wait. It might pull you back in, but if not that’s OK too. I have several other books started too,
[ If you do keep reading, I’d like to hear what you think of the character who is (or says she is) secretly engaged to the man Elinor loves. ]
I think I got spoiled by all the fast paced genre books I read this year. I’m finding it much harder to read literary fiction now. I wanted to read Ali Smith this month, but the last one I read took me a very long time, despite its short length. I kept going down rabbit holes online and in my thoughts. I’m not sure I would appreciate her atm.
I started a faster paced book today that might fit my current steeplechase tag. It’s very funny.

Anyway, I will keep on with Sense and Sensibility, I am determined to finish it, but will do so slowly, I think.

Lordy, sign me up! I've had bouts of that off and on for months. Currently have one going with I think 8 different books? So not typical. I might have 2 going at once, rarely 3 -- but it's a fiction and a non-fiction because non-fiction are slow reads for me and I can't necessarily read them after a long day at work. I add a third - an ebook - if I'm reading a bunch of print books because old eyes need better light and large print sometimes.

I found it at times muddy, overly long, even repetitive - and it was her first published novel, so it is less mature. But she deftly created memorable characters and she incorporates so many themes which she continues to explore in later works. She also has at least one sister in the family who has no one to talk to - here that is Elinor - in my favorite Austen Persuasion it's of course Anne.
Part of what affected my re-read was my love for and familiarity with the 1995 movie, especially the depth brought by Kate Winslet to Marianne - when all I wanted to do as I read her on the page was slap her! Willoughby is also a far more sympathetic, less 'bad' character in the movie than in the book. And (view spoiler)
Do stick with the book though. Once the sisters get to London, and on to the end of the novel, there is a great deal new and different from what we all know from the movie and gives refreshing feeling of discovery as you read.
Here's a link to that review should you be interested: Theresa's Review

I think I have more unfinished books started than ever before. It’s out of control. Can you get ADHD from reading challenges? As addictions go, I suppose it could be worse. I’m not worried about liver damage or getting arrested (unless I have overdue books).
I tend to read these classics rather slowly, so I'm sure that there is plenty of time for others to join us.