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I loved pride and prejudice! Not a fan of Jane austen but this book is a masterpiece. I especially loved the name Darcy. :P Story managed to stir my heart and I have been craving to read another book like pride and prejudice since then. :)
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Pride and Prejudice will probably always be one of my favorite books. I own most of the movies as well and watch them often as do my girls. I may have to dig out the novel and read it once again this summer.
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I absolutely love this book! I re read it for the love of Mr. Darcy :D
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I tried to read it in early highschool and got bored. Went back- fell in love and have read it about five times since.
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Oh, how much I love Pride and Prejudice. I went to Bath about two years ago. There I visited the hose, Jane Austen lived in. I didn't know anything about her and her books back then, but I decided to buy some. The first one I read, was persuasion. As my English skills were limited, I found it hard to read and quite confusing. But I went through it nevertheless. When I finished, I read up on Austen online and found that Pride and Prejudice is her most famous work. What can i say: I started reading, when I was on a skiing trip. Finished the whole book in one week and fell immediately in love with it.
I remember laughing out loud at that one scene where Darcy declares her love to her, while she is deeply annoyed and angry. Just hilarious.
And is it just me or does Austen have a very agreeable way of telling us what proper behaviour looked like back then, without being moralistic?
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This is an excellent book and one of my all time favorites. It has the romance that any girl would love coupled with a strong and stubborn female character that I think was really ahead of its time. That is really all you see in romantic comedies these days so they may be to blame for some feelings of blandness or been-there-done-that. The other characters are a tad bit stereotypical (i.e, the pretty sister, overbearing mother, charming man) but relatable and entertaining nonetheless.
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The only couple for whom I constantly try to search for a sequel which could match the high expectations set by Austen; I just cannot get enough of them. (:
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Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorite books and I can't tell you guys how many times I've read it. I love Jane Austen's writing style and the fact that she subtly made fun of the proper women's role with Elizabeth's character. I also really enjoy the conflict between her and Darcy, but always smile when they get it together in the end.
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I loved that book! I remember getting it as a pocketbook in a set, I think they sell those at barnes and noble still they have all the classics in one box
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I'm also pretty late to read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice! But I have to say that I was surprised at how truly funny the book is. I was not expecting for each sister's voice to be so uniquely her own. Lydia, Kitty, and Mrs. Bennet were especially entertaining to me. I am surprised that many readers on this page found the book dull or unenlightening. I like that Lizzy is a defiantly unique woman. Whether it's walking in the road to the Bingleys' home or refusing Mr. Collins' hand, she gets what she wants by making her own choices, not the ones that her mother wishes for her. However, she is not rude or selfish in this way; she is a determined woman.
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Pride and Prejudice can be a hard book to become interested in at first. However, once the plot begins to develop, it can quickly become a favorite. I absolutely adore how Mr. Darcy acts so bashfully and how Lizzy is so opinionated. The book is simply amazing and will always be one of my favorites!
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I'm very fond of Pride and Prejudice, though I agree with the original poster in that I preferred Persuasion. I like the way Lizzy is played against the rest of her family, all of whom represent some other trope of female characters (well, aside from her father, who just laughs at all of them). To the person who said that the novel could have been more feminist, I'd just like to say that this was written well before feminism was considered a thing. Feminism is a very recent idea, and one that Jane Austen wouldn't have heard of, though I like to think she would have supported it if she lived now.
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RussetDivinity wrote: To the person who said that the novel could have been more feminist, I'd just like to say that this was written well before feminism was considered a thing. Feminism is a very recent idea, and one that Jane Austen wouldn't have heard of, though I like to think she would have supported it if she lived now.
Well the word and the notion of a political philosophy may not have arisen until the late 19th/ early 20th century, but - for instance - Jane Austen was in her teens when Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women was published, so it is not as though there was no argument for women's rights going on at the time.
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This is one of my favourite books. Jane Austen is so funny and witty. Her characters are all so masterfully drawn and she does a great job using them to provide biting social commentary. I love Mr. Bennett so much. His character has so many layers.
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I am a certified Jane Austen fan! and I loved Pride and Prejudice! I've encountered some modern type of Mr. Darcy in the last few years, haha! I just can't help my own prejudice LOL!
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