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.

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.

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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?

The author of "Me and Mr. Darcy More...

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...