I’m reading “Pride and prejudice” and I’m strangely enjoying it. I like the characters and the story, I’m really hooked with the book, but I don’t really know why it is so interesting and how Austen makes me feel interested in a book that, maybe just in the surface, is so mundane.

In the past, I also read “Sense and sensibility” for University and I also enjoyed it very much.

How do you think Austen makes this? How does she make a realistic and simple book so interesting in its story and its characters?

  • baytaknew@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I think she hits just the right note of sarcasm, where it’s still sweet and charming.

    • the_man_in_the_box@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      First time I tried to read Pride and Prejudice I didn’t get more than 1/4 the way through. All the sarcasm went right over my head.

      Years later, I listened to the Audiobook version narrated by Rosamund Pike and was regularly laughing out loud.