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?
She is good at painting realistic characters - even her basically good characters have their issues. Some of her baddies are a bit cookie cutter though but they tend to be scenery the main characters react to. It is a bit like a very clever, clear-sighted and slightly naughty friend sharing the gossip with you. Cleverly observed and reported with an edge.