Wow, everytime (and I'm bieng sincere) I red or re-read any of her novels I fall in love with her works and the characters, settings, and the dialougue. AMAZING I will also admit that the movie of Pride and Prejudice with Kiera Knightly ( I know Cliche ) was amazing!

I really liked the moive, even if they did change some of the dilagouge from the book in the movie. Some of Darcy's lines they gave to Elizabelth in the movie. But it was still good, and I suppose no moive really staystrue to the book.

Jane Austen is amazing. Like any good author, you find no point of views and things you've missed when you first read her books. You know the outcome but how they get there is almost always different.

I enjoyed the movie as well.

What is your favorite work of her's?

I think Pride and Prejudice is her best that I have read so far

Has anyone read Persuassion?

I really enjoyed Persuasion! I could really feel the emotions of the main character Anne Elliot. It's a quick read too :)

I would have to agree. All of her books are great, but Pride and Prejudice is best of all.

I have read Persuassion, and I do not think it is one of her better works. It does not even really stand out in my mind, I only have a vauge recollection of what it was about.

The BBC version of Pride and prejudice was much better, Colin Firth was great as Mr Darcy and Jennifer was a far better Lizzie than Kiera.
As for Persuasion I really enjoyed the book, and to see Anne finally able to stand up for herself, there was a version of this filmed with Ciaran Hind as Captain Wentworth. Very true to the book.

I've read Emma, Sense & Sensibility and Pride & Prejudice, and so far P&P is by far the best in my opinion. I started Persuasion and never finished it - I think because I just wasn't in a Jane Austen place, I would go back to it. But it didn't draw me in like the others.

I love Jane Austen but I HATED Persuasion. I couldn't even finish it. Just my opinion though. I think a lot of other people liked it.

Oh, ha ha, I was thinking of a different work titled Persuasion. Please ignore my earlier comment!

I totally agree with Deanna. Pride & Prejudice is my favorite Austen novel. And the BBC adaptation did way more justice to the book then the movie.
Also the BBC production is a series. And therefore can go deeper into the wonderful repartee between Lizzie and Darcy.

Plus it has the advantage that it is longer and has therefore more time to bring in things that you read in the book, but are totally missing in the movie...

I also liked Emma but did not care that much for the movie with Gwyneth Paltrow....

Sense & Sensability was a wonderful read too, and the Movie with Emma Thompson & Kate Winslet was also well done...


Btw. I have this wonderful biography of Jane Austen that I can only recommend to everyone who is curious about the woman behind the novels.

“Obstinate Heart, Jane Austen, A biography”
by Valerie Grosvenor Myer

Okay, I am finally getting around to posting my humble opinion about Austen - my favorite author (along with Dickens). I love ALL of her books, and while P&P has to be my favorite. I think they all have merit. NA is different and Henry Tilney is my favorite male hero besides Darcy. I guess I'd have to say my least favorite would be Emma, only because I don't find the ending as satisfying as the others.
More about the film versions later...

I love Jane Austin and celebrate Spring by re-reading at least one of her books.

Question? Does anyone like the fiction written about Jane and her books? Sometimes they will take the characters and continue the story, sometimes write about Jane herself, like her one night engagement. What do you think of these books?

My opinion: For the most part I don't like these books, with the exception of "The Jane Austin Book Club" I gave it to my husband to read and now he can converse intelligently about my beloved Jane. We were with a group of people recently and someone said "Mansfield park, is that the one where they spend the season in Bath?" Before anyone else could speak, my dear husband said "No, that was Northanger Abby" I was so proud. The other guys looked at him open-mouthed and a bit apprehensively. He just shrugged and said, "She is my wife's favorite, and I have to live in our house, too"

Now, non-fiction about Jane, her family and the times she lived in, that is a totally different story, I can't get enough of that!!

I read Austen when I was a teen.Loved all her books but I have to agree with everyone who says P&P is her best. I've also seen all the movies,miniseries etc. and loved them all except for Northanger Abby.

Have you tried Carrie Bebris' mystery series featuring Mr & Mrs Darcy? I really like these. I've read Austen inspired books like Austenland by Shannon Hale that I liked. But sequels to her books rarely work out to my approval.

--kirsten

I think Sense and Sensibility is the best book, as well as the movie!

I already read Pride and Prejudice & Sense and Sensibility and am interested to read Emma. Is it better than the previous two?
To tell you the truth, the conversations in those books made me sleepy. While I suppose to love classics (see my profile, you'll get my drift).

I was first introduced to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in high school. I didn't think much of it at the time because I had an essay about it. In my first year of university, I decided to pick it up again and just fell in love with it. I then went and read the rest of her books.

Hands down my favourite has to be Persuasion, I thought it was wonderful and you really feel for Anne. It also has a different feel from the other Austen books, it's hard to describe it but that's why I love it so much :) I also agree with whoever said that Henry Tilney from Northanger Abbey was their favourite hero from the Austen novels; I love how charming and good-natured he is, he's certainly a different gentleman compared to the other Austen men.

Oh, and yeah, I love Austen adaptations. I own a good number of them :)

I love Emma starring Kate Beckinsale. Although the Gwyneth Paltrow version gets props for casting Ewan McGregor has Frank.

I read Northanger Abbey right after completing Mysteries of Udolpho. It was the perfect book to read after suffering through Udolpho. Jane Austen lampoons the gothic genre so well. Someday I want to read the other books mentioned in Northanger Abbey.

However, Pride and Prejudice is still my all time favorite Austen book and movie (BBC version).

I read Pride and Prejudice, but I'm trying to read Persuasion. I just can't get into it. I know I'll love it, but reading each page over twice to grasp its meaning is turning me off. Any suggestions?

I recently picked up Northanger Abbey for my wife. She's only read one or two other Jane Austen books. Will she enjoy this one?

Although it may not be Austen's best, NA is a great book and quite different than the others. I find it a little more intriguing and funny, and Henry is awesome - in some ways he beats Darcy, IMHO.

Pride and Prejudice remains my favorite, as well. I loved the characters in the novel and the movie version, with Keira Knightley, still makes me sigh.

Pride and Prejudice is by far, my favorite. The characters are awesome and I can watch the A&E version over and over again. I never get tired of it.

I just finished Mansfield Park. I really enjoyed Emma when I read it, but for some reason Jane Austen's books are always the ones I start and then set aside to read something else. I always come back to them, but it takes me a while to get through them. mansfiel Park was set aside not once, but twice. I'm glad I'm done with it though and I must say Part Three was my favorite. It was the most exciting and dramatic.

Jane Austen is such an amazing author. I think I have to agree that P&P was her best work(and the BBC movie version was so incredible that I don't really have words for it). I loved NA though, and enjoyed Persuasion quite a bit. I'm not a huge fan of Emma, but it wasn't all bad. And Ewan McGregor was cast in one of the movies so that creates a positive connection in my mind...

PBS recently (sort of) played a whole set of film adaptations of Jane Austens works (and also a biopic) that were all pretty great.

I ADORE her! She's my favorite writer ever:)

I just finished Pride & Prejudice and it was my very first Jane Austen novel. I absolutely loved it. I can't wait to get my hands on her other books. I'm definitely adding Pride & Prejudice to my list of all time favourites. :0)

Does anyone else have a problem with all the books running together? Except for Pride & Prejudice, I can't tell you how many times I've picked up Emma or Persuasion, thinking I haven't read it yet, only to get six chapters in and realize I have read it, only I didn't notice because it felt like every other Austen book?

Jane Austen is my favorite writer ever, and it's almost painful for me to pick one favorite book, hero, or heroine. If I definitly had to pick one though, it would probably be P&P *pain*

All her books are masterpieces to be read 9128473945 times, *in my humble opinion*. Once I start one, I practically cannot put it down until I've finished it. I can't get over the way she captures human nature, it's amazing. Not to mention her delightful irony, which always gets a smirk out of me. xP

I have read Northanger Abbey and I loved it. I thought her descriptions of the main character Catherine's thought processes as she comes of age to be remarkably tender, joyous, and humorous and really delved into the innocence and awe of a 17 year old leaving home for the first extended time. In Catherine the joys and angst of youth are described so well, it reminds me of springtime and growing up. This is the sole Austin novel I have read thus far and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of them. I totally loved NA and would recommend it to everyone, just ignore all the Austin hype and side industries, ignore the movies and serials, and read it. It was great!

I am currently reading Emma now and I love it, it is a wonderful story so far. So very engaing as well as quite humurous. It is some of Austen's strongest writing I think. Emma for me is right up there with P&P.

I have thus far now read all most all of her major works. I have just yet to read Mansfield Park.

Sense and Senseiblity I finnished reading last month and thought it was a delightful story. When I read it the thing which first jumped out at me was how openly humurous it was.

My favourite is Pride and Prejudice - Lizzie Bennet is one of my favourite literary characters.
I have worn through my VHS version of the BBC adaptation (thank goodness for DVD) but my husband won't allow me to watch the K. Knightley version again because I spent so much of it yelling at the (TV) screen.

I also have to agree that the delightful Henry Tilney nudges Fitzgerald Darcy off the top spot as favourite hero.
And the new film of NA is very good, although there are some plot changes.

Another favourite adaptation is Persuasion with Ciaran Hinds.

Least favourite book and film is Emma. She is so irritating and Gwenyth Paltrow just made it worse. I haven't seen the Kate Beckingsale version but there is supposed to be a new version in the works starring Romola Garai which looks very promising.

Esther wrote: "Least favourite book and film is Emma. She is so irritating and Gwenyth Paltrow just made it worse. I haven't seen the Kate Beckingsale version but there is supposed to be a new version in the works starring Romola Garai which looks very promising"

Sadly, the new BBC adaptation of Emma (with Romola Garai) seemed rather dumbed down in my opinion. The way the characters interacted did not seem formal enough and the flirtation (particularly between Emma and Frank Churchill) seemed to me too 21st century. I thought it lost much of its character because of this. Having said that, I have not read the novel for many, many years.

I love Jane Austen! My favorite book is Persuasion and I love the movies that have been made from it! My favorite movie so far is the 1980's version of Pride and Prejudice with Elizabeth Garvie as Lizzy and David Rintoul as Mr. Darcy. I don't know why I love it so much! Also the most recent Persuasion with Sally Hawkins as Anne and Rupert Penry-Jones as Capt. Wentworth is really good. I would have to say that Emma and Northanger Abby aren't my favorites but I still do enjoy reading and watching the movies that have been made from them.

my favourite is pride and prejudice and persuasion. i love the version with jennifer ehle and colin firth. i don't like the 2005