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    <body><![CDATA[I was in an interesting discussion recently about sense versus sensibility. A reviewer had taken <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1265.Jane_Austen" title="Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a> to task for being too clean and passionless. The complaints, heard often enough, are that she does not tackle sweeping vistas of emotion. She cares too much about money. Her lovers don't make...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15540068">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hmmm, how to critique one of the most revered writers of romance literature?  Now, before all of your Jane-ites get on my case for being unromantic or whatever, let me say only that unfortuantely, I read &quot;Persuasion,&quot; Austen's last novel, and found it to be one of the best books I've ever ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2873395">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The lines of who is good and who is bad are too broadly drawn here for me to count this as my favorite.  I lack the romantic leaning to feel for Marianne overly much, and Elinor's stoicism gets a little wearying.  Still, this is  great way to spend some time and I'd read it again without demure.<br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23705038">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[It was poor timing on my part to read &quot;Sense and Sensibility&quot; soon after finishing &quot;Middlemarch,&quot; a book I felt was, while not without flaws, a masterpiece. The two books, though written decades apart, invite comparisons: both have somewhat large casts of characters whose relatio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78628607">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This my first Jane Austen.<br/><br/>Okay, I LOVED this book.  I don't even know why.  It's about . . . girls who like boys!  Who are jerks!  Um, the end!  But it was funny.  But <em>clever</em> funny, which is my favorite kind.  And I enjoyed deciphering the late 18th century prose.  It made me feel smart,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29293511">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[While Ms. Austen has given us several entirely charming and personable characters, a lot of things simply did not work for me in this novel. I, however, did very much enjoy the coterie of profoundly annoying and conniving women personified in the Jennings and Middletons Palmers and Miss Steeles, res...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19184686">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[SPOILER WARNING:  The thing I did like about this book is that it's Jane Austen, and she always will entertain you without dragging you through any horrible ordeals.  If there's a war going on, we won't hear the heart-wrenching stories of orphans, squalor, and agony.  The only way we 'll know about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2888192">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ah, the third member of the Holy Trinity of Austen. Also deservedly so. This is my intellectual favorite of the Austens. By that, I'm not calling it &quot;intellectual&quot; I'm just saying that taking emotional attachment to other books out of it, this is my objective favorite Austen. I actually be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1877547">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="23737116">
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    <body><![CDATA[Despite the fact that I spent the last semester reading Victorian novels, I somehow felt the compulsion to finish this. I started it in January, but it got pushed aside for schoolwork.<br/><br/>I enjoyed it, but I don't think I'd rank it up there with <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Emma" title=" Emma"> Emma</a> or <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Pride and Prejudice" title=" Pride and Prejudice"> Pride and Prejudice</a>. Though, I haven...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23737116">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[When Ang Lee's version of the movie came out, which Emma Thompson wrote the screenplay for, I read that she said it was the most difficult Austen book to adapt.  And I can see why.  It was Austen's first book, and it's quite densely written.  Not a lot of dialogue, so screenwriters had to make it up...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14516549">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In anticipation of <em>Masterpiece’s</em> adaptation on Sunday, I reread Jane Austen’s <em>Sense and Sensibility</em>. I hadn’t read the book in over ten years and had forgotten many of the details, but I liked it as much today as I did then.<br/><br/>Elinor and Marianne Dashwood each deal with the joys and h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5529186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Sense and Sensibility<br/>By Jane Austen<br/>1811<br/>Finished: November 3rd, 2008<br/><br/>	I am a big fan of Jane Austen. I first read “Pride and Prejudice” last year, and was blown away by her characters and story. I was also impressed with the readability of her writing though. I typica...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39042106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ta-Da! I finished reading today, while my little daughter and her friends trashed the house and chased the two year old.  So, okay, Sense and Sensibility is a great classic, so it deserves five stars, right?  I'm thinking it should, but I keep holding these classics up to Jane Eyre and simply can't ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24743841">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[S and S was not as well written as Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion, nonetheless, Austen gives the reader much to think about. I was struck how Elinor epitomizes the ideal character of sense, wit, prudence, and reason of the Age of reason and how Marianne epitomizes the Romantic “Spontaneous over...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18882100">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Like so much of Austen, this book examines a profoundly modern struggle for mature ethical life relative to social structures. Marianne's confusions--of dramatic intensity with emotional integrity, of blind conformity with principled compromise--are still with us, and too often we view others and ou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5358831">more...</a>]]></body>
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