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I don't mind meek and sweet characters, but Fanny is super sweet and meek and too wonderful to be true. Tom is SO bad, as is Mrs. Norris. The story is filled with good guys and bad guys. You can stack them up in two piles. Cardboard figures if you ask me.
The falseness of the characters irritates me immensely. Characters say they do something for one reason but do it for another.
The whole tone of the story is too self-righteous and moralistic.
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A re-read but I didn't change my rating, even after I've read the brilliant review written by my friend Kim.
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For years I kept away from Austen because I had trouble liking her book Emma. I decided to try her shorter works: Persuasion and Northanger Abbey, which I enjoyed, maybe not as much as Sense and Sensibility (my personal favorite, even over P&P), but a very good read. I decided to try one more Austen: this book. Although it I had a bit of trouble getting into it, in the end, I am glad I read it. Maybe I should try Emma again.
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First read in 2001.
reading it on my iphone.
This, more than other Austen's, is a book of sitting around and waiting for the men to act. That is not a bad thing. I actually love Austen for the feeling of inaction, the idea that women MUST just sit there and wait for a man. So often Fanny is sitting wishing for an invitation to something, to do something, to move slightly about the room anything, and yet the social mores are that she cannot, she cannot even suggest it herself. That sense of bleakness makes me glad I ...more
This, more than other Austen's, is a book of sitting around and waiting for the men to act. That is not a bad thing. I actually love Austen for the feeling of inaction, the idea that women MUST just sit there and wait for a man. So often Fanny is sitting wishing for an invitation to something, to do something, to move slightly about the room anything, and yet the social mores are that she cannot, she cannot even suggest it herself. That sense of bleakness makes me glad I ...more
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Christian
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Jaci McCon
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it was amazing
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