Emma in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Apr 03, 2008 Nari rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, 2008

The quick summary is that Emma is a local match-maker. After helping merge one fantastic couple, Mr. Weston and Emma’s governness Miss Taylor, all her other schemes seems to flounder. Harriet Smith is a minor character although seems to fall in love with anyone that Emma points to. Mrs. Elton was one of my favorite characters only because of her insipid vanity and over indulgence in herself.

I’m not sure why, but Jane Austen seems to love solving all of the conflicts in her novels through a lengt ...more

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Aug 21, 2012 Amanda rated it it was ok · review of another edition

My least favorite Jane Austen novel.

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Oct 03, 2007 Alyssa rated it liked it

My least favorite of all of Austen's books that I've read so far, though I did still enjoy it. It just didn't capture my attention as raptly as her others do. Also, I had a hard time not paralelling everything in the book to the movie Clueless - an undeniably annoying tendency.

I'm glad to have read it, though it probably won't be one that I am dying to reread, as is Pride and Prejudice or Northanger Abbey. ...more

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Feb 05, 2009 Nicole rated it really liked it

Shelves: 1001-list, classics, 2009

I had been resisting reading Austen for years, and now I'm not sure why, because Emma was such fun. It really was similar the movie Clueless, and was fun to pick out the characters.
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