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Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride & Prejudice

Curtis Sittenfeld

Why we're reading this: This book is just fun...so it's a perfect summer read. The characters are great and it does have some par…more
[close] This book is just fun...so it's a perfect summer read. The characters are great and it does have some parallels with "Pride and Prejudice".

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Jun 08, 2016 Stacy rated it really liked it

I LOVE Curtis Sittenfield. This is one of her best novels. The story is about the Bennett family - perhaps they were once "Cinncinatti high society" but have fallen on hard times. Their Tudor house is crumbling, Mom and Dad are broke, three daughters live at home with little to no ambition and the two oldest daughters are surviving and working in New York. Liz, is our main character and she is the second to oldest. She and Jane, the oldest daughter are called home to Ohio and that is when we see ...more

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Nov 04, 2016 Nari rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction, united-states, 2016, high-society

The book started strong, with a great updating of Pride & Prejudice for a contemporary era. Once the hate sex started... The book just went downhill from there and became a little trashy. Elizabeth Bennett in this book is too ditzy, irritating and boring compared to her original self. I listened to the audiobook which may have done more harm than good for the Bennett sisters.

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