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I liked this book and appreciate Jane Austen's brilliant characterizations and wordplay. I just didn't love it. That is all.
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The best thing about this book is that I can't decide whether I hate Emma, or really empathize with her. She has everything going for her - beautiful, clever, rich, happily single - and yet she manages to meddle and mess up a bunch of her friends' lives, repeatedly misunderstand what is happening around her, and overall be so much less than she could be.
I'm reminded of a line from The House of Mirth: "Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement."
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I'm reminded of a line from The House of Mirth: "Under the glitter of their opportunities she saw the poverty of their achievement."
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Best Jane Austen I've read yet. Best best best best best. Too many quotes to share right meow. Too many feelz.
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Think this is the first time I've read this since watching the (imo terrible) Gwenyth Paltrow movie version ages ago. The book is obviously so much better than the movie. Particularly enjoyable since my memory of the movie had lowered my expectations.
Listened to the audio by Juliet Stevenson who was excellent as always. ...more
Listened to the audio by Juliet Stevenson who was excellent as always. ...more
I read this for a Classics challenge, and for most of the book I was bored out of my mind - as nothing much was happening. I really liked Persuasion much better, and did not care much for either clueless Emma or for her hypochondriac father :/
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