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I wanted to love it more just before it’s Austen I suppose . I didn’t hate it, but it just felt a little flat. I appreciated that the book took it’s time getting to different events that took place, but then it was there, done, move on. The ending felt the same. It was what I as the reader was waiting for but it almost felt a let down.
Jane lets her wicked humor loose in this book, poking gentle (and sometimes not so gentle) fun at just about everyone’s poses, pretensions, and delusions, but as silly as Austen makes novel-drama-obsessed Catherine she still allows her to be artlessly charming and a lively joy to spend time with, and on this reread I gained a renewed appreciation for the playful wit and heartfelt decency of Henry Tilney. Northanger Abbey has moved up a few places in my favorite Austen novel list.
What a funny and entertaining novel! I loved how it poked fun at gothic novels and how the heroine, Catherine, frequently lets her imagination run away with itself. My 10 year old daughter and I read this novel together, and we laughed at how Catherine had envisioned a haunted, spooky abbey full of ghosts and murder, just like the gothic novels she had read, and her reaction when she actually arrived! Ha! The plot line was entertaining and engaging and we both absolutely loved it. Now, I am not
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It took me a while to get into it, but Catherine was such an amusing heroine. The entire book is silly and really funny, a great Austen novel!
A tale of mishaps, amusing....Jane Austen's first book.
Kind of a quick read, really.
Not as well developed as Emma or Persuasion...which are brilliant but a quick, good read. Likeable heroine. ...more
Kind of a quick read, really.
Not as well developed as Emma or Persuasion...which are brilliant but a quick, good read. Likeable heroine. ...more
I listened to a special Audible performance of this fable. It was done very well but I dare say I think that I could have retained more knowledge of this tale if I had been reading the account in a paper version which I could lay my eyes upon said story and visit the previous pages to discern items of unremarkable remembrance.
Not my favorite Jane Austen - maybe my least favorite of her books. I didn't like how things were just glossed over at the end.
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Apr 26, 2011
JoLynn
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it was amazing
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Jun 25, 2011
Eliasson
marked it as to-read
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Alisha Marie
marked it as to-read
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Aug 30, 2015
Meg
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Sabrina
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