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Me And Mr Darcy

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He's every woman's fantasy...

After a string of disastrous relationships, Emily Albright has had it with modern men.

She'd rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were honorable and strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging to their chests. The men she meets are more into pleated trousers, two-timing and internet porn.

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Published (first published June 12th 2007)

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Jun 05, 2010 Hannah marked it as did-not-finish · review of another edition

Shelves: too-awful-for-words

32 pages in, and just... no . <finality.>>

Poor Jane must be hurling with all the revolutions she's made in her grave over this farce.

Jane, I solemnly swear I won't read another book trying to ride the coattails of your glorious pen.

May Lady Catherine strike me dead if I do.

Amen.

****An Important Review Disclaimer:
Strictly speaking, pens don't possess coattails, but you're astute enough to get my drift.

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Oct 10, 2007 Chelsea rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: contemporaryfiction, fiction, janeausten, own, retellings

On page 36, the main character, a well-read, moderately intelligent, 29 year old Austenophile, is walking through Heathrow, and wondering what on earth all these silly British people are talking about. "Snogging? Blokes? Crimey?"

And that's when I put it down.

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May 29, 2009 Blandine rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: english

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. So. So. SO… I wish I could give this book more stars because the author was clearly full of good intentions and I hate being a bitch to nice people with good intentions, you know? But this book, despite being a nice, enjoyable summer read, has too many things which are wrong wrong wrong. I don’t even know where to start.

I’ve never been into chick lit. I mean, I do love ‘Bridget Jones’ but that’s as far as it goes really. Unless you count classics like “Pride & Prejudice” as chick lit, then f...more So. So. SO… I wish I could give this book more stars because the author was clearly full of good intentions and I hate being a bitch to nice people with good intentions, you know? But this book, despite being a nice, enjoyable summer read, has too many things which are wrong wrong wrong. I don’t even know where to start.

I’ve never been into chick lit. I mean, I do love ‘Bridget Jones’ but that’s as far as it goes really. Unless you count classics like “Pride & Prejudice” as chick lit, then fair enough. Anyway, I got “Me & Mr Darcy” as a birthday present after adding it to my Amazon list. “Pride & Prejudice” is one of my favourite classics, and I was looking for some more Mr Darcy to keep the fantasy going. The summary for this book seemed nice enough, and I was secretly jealous of the very pretty girl on the cover, so I went for this one.

At first I really enjoyed it. It was an easy read - something I’m not really used to – and interesting enough. But then she started quoting excerpts of “Pride and Prejudice” and it annoyed me a little. Especially since it was followed right after by a completely similar experience for Emily, the main character, I had a feeling that the author expected me to be stupid and not understand the parallel by myself.

Emily. She works at a book shop and claims to be a bookworm. Mmm… Thing is, throughout the whole book she sounds like a total idiot. She gets annoyed whenever someone assumes she is stupid because she is American, but to be honest it is not far from the truth at all is it? I don’t think there’s any depth to her character. She really seemed empty and superficial to me. Perhaps it’s a cliché, but I would expect someone who says they read a lot to be slightly more intelligent.

Then you’ve got Spike. How are you supposed to go from a detestable man to a man who’s not perfect but still perfect in his own way anyway? I thought the transition was pretty quick from one extreme to the other, and the harsh description of Spike made it very hard to suddenly like him. He sounded more ridiculous than sweet.

Finally, the whole Mr Darcy daydreaming was really odd. It was almost uncomfortable. It made me cringe too, because Mr Darcy sounded quite silly at times – and Emily sounded like the cool person which she herself claims not to be – and I don’t feel that’s the way Jane Austen described him. He was proud and brooding, yes, but well-educated. I just cannot picture Mr Darcy throwing rocks at a window to catch a woman’s attention. Moreover, the whole ‘is it true / is it not?’ plot was kind of awkward.

On the whole, and contrary to appearances, I don't think it was that bad a book. It could have been much worse. But the original novel is such a classic that I don’t think that it could work. If the book was not so obviously linked to “Pride & Prejudice”, I’m sure I would have made a shorter list for what I do not like. But here I cannot help but compare it to the Jane Austen novel and of course it’s not as good. Maybe the solution would be for the Austen fans like me to stop wishing for a sequel, to admit that Mr Darcy’s and Elizabeth’s lives stopped when Jane Austen wrote down the last full stop and that it is up to our imagination to come up with our sequels. And stop buying “Pride & Prejudice”-related books.(less)

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Nov 02, 2007 Susan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-adult

As an unashamed FOJ (friend of Jane) and a diehard fan of Pride and Prejudice in particular, I am often compelled to read contemporary retellings, spinoffs, and homages out of the same primal urge that leads other people to sneak a look at the car wreck on the side of the road. The end result is never pretty and I feel bad about myself afterward, but I do it anyway. This book brought no pleasant surprises, in spite of what initially seemed to be a fresh angle. What I thought was something quite...more

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Rebecca excellent review. i just now read the book and i was interested in other people's opinions of the book and i really like yours. i agree with your obse...more
Feb 13, 2008 08:45am

Lorraine if potter indeed loves austen, then wilde's observation that "each man kills the thing he loves/ some do it with a word" is only too appropriate.

for t...more if potter indeed loves austen, then wilde's observation that "each man kills the thing he loves/ some do it with a word" is only too appropriate.

for that matter I don't think potter even loves austen, she thinks that she's cleverer than austen, but she's not. It's not the realism that bothers me (it is fiction after all), but the lack of self-reflexivity the silly book exhibits, isn't it? I mean, given the kind of license she takes in letting the protagonist 'meet' darcy, it is ridiculous to conclude that the 'real' man gets the girl (ie, spike). None are real, both are fictional, you would've thought that she might have realised this... in other words, don't contradict your theme by means of plot or language (unless you are Vladimir Nabokov, who does this so cleverly a meta point is made).

It is also ridiculous to 'critique' darcy for being patriarchal, since elizabeth herself is complicit in this system... we won't know what darcy might have thought of the 'modern woman' because that just wasn't feasible then -- if you were upper middle class, english and female -- then you really had very little choice in terms of jobs etc. It seems in Austen's world, working women as an idea never occurs to the women or the men. The patriarchy, if one wants to poke at this idea, is inherent in Austen's narrow little world, and NOT in any one character. In fact, it's not inherent in Austen perhaps, but the world she portrayed (she says she doesn't write about what she doesn't know) -- if one could help it -- in the 19th C -- an unmarried woman didn't work.

For that matter, there is a plot parallel which potter makes but again, is too stupid to realise, between spike and darcy. Who says darcy isn't the ideal guy? spike is modern-day darcy. Darcy is an archetype, he exists *across* time -- like all characters he has historical context, but what is appealing about him works outside of that. The idea of "Darcy" isn't defined by his 19th Century-ness, it is defined by his qualities; and this is true, Austen leaves the contextual descriptions to people like Mrs. Bennet and other unlikable people. We are merely told that Darcy was handsome and had a fine figure (his eye colour? his hair colour etc -- not impt). In the same line, when we go for "Darcy" that's because Darcy is defined by, and hence represents qualities we want (and this can take different forms in different historical -- cultural is another matter-- contexts): passionate, appreciative of a woman's intelligence, decent, handsome. Spike is all these things; it is ridiculous to say spike is preferred to darcy because he is more 'real'. Spike IS darcy, in the 21th century.

in short, I think potter is not just stupid, but actually likes austen only insofar as she can pat herself on being cleverer than austen. Grr.(less)
Apr 10, 2008 11:57pm

Jul 17, 2008 Laura rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The best thing about this book so far is the dark chocolate bar I bought with it in the airport bookstore. Am about halfway through it and the words of the guy in the bookstore who sold it to me are haunting me ... "we've sold, like, a thousand copies of this book in the last week!" I am in mourning for my twelve dollars. I was an English Major and a huge Jane Austen fan, and this book is making me cringe, all the more so because I started it just after finishing Three Cups of Tea, such a meanin...more

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May 31, 2011 mikha ϟ rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, angie

Im inlove with Mr. Darcy. ♥
Who isnt? :)

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Oct 02, 2011 Claire rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2011

I think I am going to be in the minority with this book. I ended up liking it. I thought the book was funny, enjoyable to read and really took the moral home.

As most know, Potter is English. At first, I thought Potter did a good job writing as an American. And overall, I don't think she did a very bad job. There were just some things where you could tell a Brit was trying to act American. After reading some reviews on the book, I think this fact bothered some readers. It didn't really bother me,...more

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Oct 19, 2008 Lilyrose rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Lilyrose by: Mum

Shelves: chick-lit

Believe me..I dont want to criticize this book, written by a fellow Darcy-lover and Austen fan..but sadly, the story doesnt leave much to desire.

Every woman wants Mr.Darcy,every woman likes to read a novel to do with Mr.Darcy-which is a sad thing, considering how many writers NEVER get it right.The story is predictable to the core.

And when the characters start using the same sentences that Mr.Darcy and Lizzie use, you know you've had enough.Which is again, a pity,because you can write a much bet...more

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Sep 08, 2008 Kiki rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I picked this up at Target the other day 'cause I was really annoyed with my husband. I finished it in one day when he took the kids away to play for a bit.

It's completely predicatable but it made for a funfilled few hours. Ms. Potter annoyed the hell out me with her use of gratuitous references to places in NYC. Who the hell says "Greenwich Village"??!!! NO ONE who lives there says that. It's just the 'village' unless you mean the east village then you say that, 'east village'. So, it was pain...more

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Mar 30, 2008 Anica rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chick-lit

OK, so I would love to give this book 1,5 stars. It's not possible so whatever. Even though the beginning was funny and the ending was kinda cute on some level. The rest? Just forget about it.
Cause this was a book I really longed to read. And even after finishing it I feel so disappointed. This book is stupid and so boring I nearly pulled out my hair. The heroine is so annoying and stupid on a level I don't wanna describe here. I mean she works in a book shop, she loves Jane Austen and she can'...more

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Jan 28, 2008 Samantha rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Emily Albright is a 29 year old New Yorker managing a family-owned bookstore she adores and has had just about the worst dating life a woman could possibly have. And so she swears off of men, choosing instead to focus more on her love of literary heroes, Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy in particular.

He is the epitome of manhood with is proud and haughty manner, his chivalry, and is just plain dashing -- all attributes she wishes she could find in the real world, but has given it up for lost and discover...more Emily Albright is a 29 year old New Yorker managing a family-owned bookstore she adores and has had just about the worst dating life a woman could possibly have. And so she swears off of men, choosing instead to focus more on her love of literary heroes, Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy in particular.

He is the epitome of manhood with is proud and haughty manner, his chivalry, and is just plain dashing -- all attributes she wishes she could find in the real world, but has given it up for lost and discovers a great way to (a) spend the week between Christmas and New Years, (b) get away from her disastrous love life, and (c) her strained relationship between herself and her jet-setting parents:

A literary tour of the English countryside exploring the world of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice

Despite the insistence (and absolutely correctness) of her best friend Stella, Emily is off to submerge herself in her literary fantasy with a tour bus full of "old people" and one journalist, Spike Hargreaves, who is doing a piece on why most women adore Mr. Darcy.

It's typical chick-lit in the vein of retelling P&P, except for one small twist: the real Mr. Darcy makes quite a few appearances throughout and Emily gets to date the one-and-only!

Cute but obvious; a good read overall. I bought this back on the 5th and before a week had passed, I found it on the new books shelf at work. Typical. Good thing I didn't buy the other book I was eyeing at the time, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, because we also have that title, and it saved me $23!

Thing is though, I'm kind of Darcy-ied out after reading this book. That's not to say they put the romantic hero in a bad light; I just feel I've had enough of him for a good while. I've only ever seen parts of the Colin Firth miniseries, but I adore the Kiera Knightly version and tend to watch it multiple times in a row. I don't think I can handle anymore Austen or Austen-related works right now, which means I need to cancel my hold on that other book and return The Jane Austen Book Club for another day.(less)

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Apr 24, 2008 Ana T. rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2008, contemporary, traded

I've decided that life is too short for me to waste it on books that don't do anything for me... unfortunately this was one of them!

Dreams come true in this hilarious, feel-good fairy tale about life, love, and dating literature's most eligible bachelor!

After a string of disastrous dates, Emily Albright decides she's had it with modern-day love and would much rather curl up with Pride and Prejudice and spend her time with Mr. Darcy, the dashing, honourable, and passionate hero of Jane Austen's c...more

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Nov 17, 2011 Duesterwald-Online rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: liebes-und-frauenromane

Inhalt:
Kultiviert, weltgewandt, intelligent, zurückhaltend, geheimnisvoll - Jane Austens Mr. Darcy lässt seit jeher Frauenherzen höher schlagen und nicht selten ist er die heimliche Phantasie vieler Frauen.
So ergeht es auch Emily, der Hauptperson dieses Buches. Enttäuscht von der modernen Männerwelt beschließt sie, sich endlich ein wenig Ruhe zu gönnen und was könnte da besser sein, als eine Reise in das ländliche England?
Doch ihre Ruhe wird gestört durch einen impertinenten Journalisten, der...more

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Jan 04, 2010 Karen Powell added it · review of another edition

I read the awful reviews. And yet I wanted to read it anyway. Well, you know what they say about hindsight....[return][return]To be fair, I did read it with an open mind and expected a fluffy, funny story poking fun at the Darcy fantasy. Instead, the words "epic fail" flashed in my mind. I'm not even sure where to start. Let's try the plot, since there's at least a bit of that, although Potter has Jane Austen to thank for it, since her characters' actions somewhat mirror the literary legend's.[r...more I read the awful reviews. And yet I wanted to read it anyway. Well, you know what they say about hindsight....[return][return]To be fair, I did read it with an open mind and expected a fluffy, funny story poking fun at the Darcy fantasy. Instead, the words "epic fail" flashed in my mind. I'm not even sure where to start. Let's try the plot, since there's at least a bit of that, although Potter has Jane Austen to thank for it, since her characters' actions somewhat mirror the literary legend's.[return][return]New Yorker Emily is a mild-mannered bookshop manager -- too mild-mannered according to her best friend Stella, who arranged for the two of them to go on a party vacation in Mexico. To deflect the horror of wet t-shirt contests, Emily flies off to England for a "Pride and Prejudice" book tour... and lands in the horror of being the only one on the bus not eligible for a senior citizen's discount. Well, the only one except for Spike, an arrogant journalist sentenced to write an article on why women are fascinated with Mr. Darcy. Emily and Spike clash from the start, but that suits her fine since she remarkably finds herself face-to-face with Mr. Darcy himself, yes THE fictional character come to life! In between meetings with her literary lover, Emily comes to learn that things are not at all what they seem: from the seniors with secret pasts to Spike himelf. Even Mr. Darcy comes to be not at all what Emily imagined. [return][return]Now if Potter's novel were as interesting as the above summary, I would have given it a few more stars. However, the author managed to muck it all up thanks to poor writing and a narrative style I'd like to call "first person self-concious." We are privy to every thought in Emily's head, and they are, for the most part, hideously inane and annoying. Dialogue is certainly not Potter's strong point, and it was embarrassingly awful to read Emily replying "awesome" to whatever was said by an unfased Darcy. Conversations were stilted, and Emily never sounded smart in any of them. For someone who supposedly read a lot, she was a pretty dim bulb.[return][return]The other characters, with a few exceptions, were terribly contrived as well. There's Stella who is so abrasive, self-centered, and mean in the first few chapters, that I wondered how this shrew got to be Emily's best friend? Well, she didn't seem to have any others, I guess. Then there's Spike, who's supposed to be Emily's real-life Mr. Darcy counterpart. Potter could just not stop describing how disgusting his hairy potbelly was in the beginning, that it ruined any chance to romanticize the character. It's just as well, since Emily is so poorly contrived that we're not missing out by having her romance fall flat.[return][return]As for Mr. Darcy... did Alexandra Potter and I read the same copy of "Pride and Prejudice"? Apparently, Potter's Darcy thinks nothing of unchaperoned ladies traipsing about hungover and stoned with skin exposed and dropping expletives and "awesome!" in conversation. And apparently he stares a lot, too. Oh, and Emily, a supposedly educated and voracious reader, is actually shocked when she learns that Mr. Darcy thinks only lower-class women work. I wanted to scream, "Do you know nothing about the time period of your favorite novel, you dunce?!" No, instead she tells off her fantasy fictional lover for having the audacity not to know about the Women's Rights Movement that doesn't exist in his world. Potter bungles the Darcy scenes so badly, that the conceit of him proposing to Emily only heightens the ridiculousness of it all. In the Internet world, this is what's known as a "Mary Sue" fanfic.[return][return]And a side note to Alexandra Potter: If you're going to make your character so intrinsicly American that the phrase "fish and chips" utterly befuddles her, then don't have her peppering her thoughts and speech with Brit slang. [return][return]So is there anything good about this book? Well, I enjoyed the characters of Emily's travel companions Maeve and Rose. Although the characters have to fight against Potter's awful dialogue, they are firmly the most interesting characters in the novel. Sadly, they do not redeem the novel enough to make it readable. And Spike's article on Mr. Darcy at the end is pretty good, but it's sad that he only get a personality right before the book is over. [return][return]This was a painful read, but I have this thing about having to finish books once I start them. However, I was sorely tempted to break this personal rule with each awful chapter. I know the book summary is certain to pique your curiosity, but be strong and stay away! The novel fails to follow through on anything interesting enough to make the reading worth it. How sad for the author that the only way she can lure potential readers in is to ride Jane Austen's coattails. But there are other novels that incorporate "Pride and Prejudice" into a modern setting that are much more worth your time. Since this is by far the worst I've read, I'd say any one of them would do better.(less)

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Feb 28, 2013 Ariella rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I stopped reading 50 or so pages in. I thought I would enjoy a little mindless chicklit, but this was just too mindless for me. The main character was not cute or quirky or lovable in any meaningful way. I kept thinking: why do I have to like her? Just because she is the main character? But do I actually think she is a sympathetic main character? What characteristics were supposed to draw me to her again?

Also what really bothered me was that the author just had no clue how New Yorkers speak. Ha...more

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Jan 05, 2013 Steph Taylor rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Not usually one for 'chick lit' but the mention of Mr Darcy (and the fact I needed to buy one more item in order to use my credit card in the charity shop) made me pick this up. Total rubbish. The lead character is unconvincing as an American, due to the fact she is being created by a British author with a prejudice or two (ironic? Not deliberately). Her love interest Spike is described as overweight, childish and unkempt and is extremely annoying - why would we be rooting for them to get to tog...more

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Nov 02, 2012 Kane rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Na tuhle knihu jsem byla opravdu hodně zvědavá. Zaujala mě mě hned, když jsem ji zahlédla ve výloze v jednom nejmenovaném knihkupectví. Tak nějak jsem tušila, že se mi kniha bude líbit. No, nemýlila jsem se. Sice jsem tušila, jak co bude, odhadla jsem, jak to skončí, ale to mi vůbec nevadilo. Naopak. Nadskakovala jsem na posteli a těšila se, až všechno docvakne i hlavní postavě Emily, která je mimochodem děsně vtipná a nenapravitelná romantička. Od první věty si mě získala. Jak jsem četla, pocho...more

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Oct 25, 2012 Alyssa McGinn rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Me and Mr. Darcy is about a woman named Emily who works in the book store that loves Pride & Prejudice. She believes she will spend yet another Christmas alone, which her coworker and friend also believes, until she sees a flyer for a Jane Austen themed tour of London. She decides to attend and is greeted by a flock of old women and a disgruntled, handsome man named Spike. Amidst the Austen-filled fun, she finds a mysterious Mr. Darcy, straight out of P&P, funny pants and all. Despite t...more

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Sep 10, 2012 D. rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012

So, it's nearly four in the morning and I'm left a little woozy from the saccharine nature of this one. Clearly, reviewing a book rightthissecond must be a Good Idea. Ever sit down to a slice of cheesecake and later realize the whole thing's gone? Yeah, it was like that.
Slogging through a painfully self-abasing narrative with a predictable plot reminds me of why "chick-lit" really is not to my tastes. Yes, that was the heading I found this shelved under.
Treating it as a loving work of fan fic...more

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Aug 06, 2012 Rosie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: read-2012

I've wanted to read an Alexandra Potter book since her covers caught my eye in Waterstone's, I was pleased to see one of her books left at the villa we stayed in this year. It was the perfect opportunity to check out her writing.

I'm always quite wary of books with a Jane Austen (particularly a Pride and Prejudice) theme as I've been disappointed by a few in the past. This novel follows a New York bookworm, Emily Albright, who passes up seeing in the New Year in Mexico with her friends to go to a...more

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Mar 14, 2012 Lisa rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2012, charity-shop-buy, chick-lit, cute, romance

I'm trying to read some of the books I've had lying around for a long time. Mainly because I want to bring some books to the charity shop and know I have to read the more undesirable books. Otherwise, I read books I don't want to part with.

So, I read this, which I picked up in a charity shop last April. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be but I won't have a problem with parting with it.

It was actually an enjoyable little romance. Not the sexy kind of romance, though. This was more chick-li...more

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Jan 19, 2012 Maia B. rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: abominations, vile-characters, so-done-with-this

Oh...yuck.

Really, there are almost too many problems to even begin to enumerate them.

-the heroine (whose name I cannot recall, even though I finished the book yesterday) is a complete drip - when she's not being shallow, obnoxious, self-centered, and bitchy, like most other chick-lit heroines, she's reading Jane Austen and obviously completely misunderstanding it, because if she made too much of an effort her tiny brain would actually explode with the work it was doing.

-the hero - either a reall...more

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Dec 04, 2011 Ummu Auni rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2011, contemporary-romance

Despite being against the strong majority, I found this book is an enjoyable read. Maybe because I'm neither a Brit or American as they called it. This is such an easy read, so much humour, and such a realistic approach even though it may sound unrealistic for the fact that Emily found her true love within a week time but who cares?

The novel revolved around Emily who was trying to make an escapade from being dragged by her friend Stella, and she went for a book tour instead. Despite the first pa...more

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Jul 26, 2011 Emily rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is a quick read. It is a fun romp through the musings of a Jane Austen fanatic (well more specifically a P&P fanatic) and what it would really be like to meet and be courted by Mr. Darcy. It is fairly predictable because it follows the P&P plot but I have to admit that the little surprise at the end made me smile. The character Emily (great name choice by the way) is realistic, but at the same time the same women you see in books like this: late 20's, bad date magnet and so goes of...more

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Apr 02, 2011 Shy rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-other

Ok, I'm a little ashamed to own up to actually spending money on a book like this, but it was very little money in a discount bookshop, and I really needed something light to read in the middle of a terrible week for a three hour bus ride on the way to a funeral.

And what can I say, it's horrible rom-com sugary fluff with a dose of either delusions or a touch of the supernatural. That actually added some unexpected spice to what I was expecting to be quite trite (and trite it was, just with an e...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Kathy Chung rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: chic-lit, ghost

Review at link : Me and Mr Darcy

Date reviewed : 27 March 2011

Emily Albright is an American and is Manager of a book store. She had a string of disastrous relationship with modern men. They just does not have the gentleman charm of the flamed Mr Darcy, a character from Jane Austen's book "Pride and Prejudice". She had it with all modern men. Her dream man is Mr Darcy.

When her best friend Stella invited to a weekend full of "fun" and men in Mexico, she hastily declined and booked herself on a tour...more

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Sep 20, 2010 Marianne rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, re-telling, romance, chicklit, humour

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I think there's something that is ingrained in pretty much every girl that they, in one way or another, love Pride & Prejudice and have probably at one point or another considered Mr Darcy (in any of his guises) as the epitome of their dream guy. That's the concept behind this book. Emily manages a NY book store and, after a string of disastrous dates swears off men because no one can live up to her dream man, Mr Darcy. Her friend, deciding she needs to get out there wants to take her on a 1...more

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Mar 11, 2010 Megan rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: miss-austen-regrets

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I knew I wouldn't like this book the second I realized its goal was to convince me that Mr. Darcy is not all he's cracked up to be.

"The only problem is, how on earth do you break up with Mr. Darcy?" (p. 301)

You don't. And especially not to go out with a guy who calls you a "bitch" while you call him an "asshole" while you're drunk and high. Maybe this girl should start reading V.C. Andrews or something.

I just think that trying to convince women who are infatuated with Mr. Darcy that if they met...more

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Sep 25, 2009 Miaoxiaoyan rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Mr. Darcy is in our fantasy

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man."

Do you agree with that?

That makes sense, doen't it?

But...hang on... Doesn't it sound familiar?

How about comparing it with the following words?

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife"

Quite similar...almost identical, aren't they?

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When I first started to read Me and Mr Darcy I thought that I was Emily Albright. There were many similarities....a love of Pride & Prejudice....the tendency to pack more books then clothes since you just never know what you might be in the mood for...among other things. I was thoroughly sucked in the first few chapters until Emily ran into none other than Mr Darcy - fictional character made flesh. That's when the book got a little weird and started to move away from something original to so...more

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About Alexandra Potter

Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, I graduated from Liverpool University with an honours degree in English Literature and Film Studies. In 1993, at the age of twenty-three, I moved to London to be the editor of a puzzle magazine. Yes, puzzles! For someone who can never get that last crossword clue, it was pretty daunting, but it was my first break into the world of magazines and publishing, and I loved...more Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, I graduated from Liverpool University with an honours degree in English Literature and Film Studies. In 1993, at the age of twenty-three, I moved to London to be the editor of a puzzle magazine. Yes, puzzles! For someone who can never get that last crossword clue, it was pretty daunting, but it was my first break into the world of magazines and publishing, and I loved it. (And it turned out my job was making up the clues, not solving them – phew!)

In my spare time I was always writing articles and trying to get them published, until finally my persistence paid off. For the next five years I saw my features published in many of the big name British glossies – ELLE, Company, She, Red, More!, Here and Cosmopolitan, before travelling to Sydney, Australia, where I spent six months working for Australian Vogue and Cleo magazine.

However, for many years a dream of mine had been to write a novel and, in 1999, I finally took the plunge. Every lunchtime and spare weekend was spent working on my novel, What’s New, Pussycat? until finally I’d written three chapters, which I sent to several agents. I was so nervous waiting for their responses that I tried to forget all about it by going on holiday to Los Angeles to visit my sister. This was in the days before email, and so I couldn’t believe it when I returned home, checked my answering machine and discovered messages from several interested agents. The word 'excitement' doesn't even come close.

In the end I signed with my fabulous agent, Stephanie Cabot. She loved what I’d written so far, loved the character of Delilah, a girl from Yorkshire who moves to London with just her Tom Jones collection and her dog, and was eager to read the rest of the novel.
Now, all I had to do was write it!

So I took a gamble. I resigned from my job, sold my car, and gave myself a deadline of six months (which was when the proceeds from my car would run out). Within days of handing in the finished manuscript, a bidding war broke out between several interested publishers and I ended up signing a two-book deal. What’s New, Pussycat? was published in April 2000 and immediately made the bestseller lists. Proof that dreams really can come true.

To date I’ve written seven romantic comedy novels and am currently working on my eighth. During these past ten years, I’ve sold the film rights to What’s New, Pussycat? and Calling Romeo, seen my books translated and published all over the world, including Germany, France, Poland, Russia, Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Thailand and Indonesia, appeared at the LA Book Festival, and been interviewed for the BBC, Channel 4’s Big Breakfast, ITVs Calendar, and in the US, ABC’s Nightline.

I was delighted when my fourth novel, Do You Come Here Often, was made book of the month, by Woman’s Day in Australia, and in May 2008 I was thrilled to win the Best New Fiction award for Me and Mr Darcy, at the Jane Austen Regency World Awards.

Aside from novels, I’ve also contribued a short story - No Strings Attached - which was published in an anthology entitled Girl’s Night In in aid of the international charity: WarChild. More recently, while living in LA, I’ve had my own column in Celebrity Homes magazine, written features for Woman’s Own and Eve, and contributed to Elle by interviewing several celebrities, such as Samuel Jackson and Rachel Bilson. It’s a hard job, but someone’s got do it…

My latest book, Who’s That Girl? came out in the UK in January 2009 to rave reviews and made the bestseller lists straight away, thanks to my wonderful readers. It's due to be published next yer in the US under a different title, The Two Lives of Charlotte Merryweather, and has already been sold to Germany, France, Poland and Macedonia which is all really exciting stuff.

In the meantime, I'm hard at work writing my new book - this is going to be number eight! I still can't quite believe it...(less)

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“Because you will meet somebody more exceptional than anyone you have ever know. Who will love you warmly as possible. And who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.” — 11 people liked it

“Sounds incredible? Hell, it does. But perhaps we all need to believe something incredible once in a while.” — 10 people liked it

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