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This story got off to a slow start for me. I was having a hard time getting into it, and feeling guilty since it is Pride and Prejudice one of the beloved books of many. I watched the first episode of the BBC series with Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy to see if that would help after I had read the first twelve chapters. It did, I was able to get a better grasp for the storyline and see some of the humor I was missing in my reading.
While I was slow to warm-up to the Bennet family they did grow on me a ...more
While I was slow to warm-up to the Bennet family they did grow on me a ...more
I can't believe I put off reading this for so long.
Thank you, Suzy, for asking me to read this with you. If it were not for you, this would still be sitting on my shelf, unread.
It took me quite some time to get through this book. Not because I found it hard to get into but because I couldn't focus on this book when I had other distractions around, and I always seem to have other distractions around. Once I switched to the audio book (reader is amazing), it allowed me to focus all of my attention ...more
Thank you, Suzy, for asking me to read this with you. If it were not for you, this would still be sitting on my shelf, unread.
It took me quite some time to get through this book. Not because I found it hard to get into but because I couldn't focus on this book when I had other distractions around, and I always seem to have other distractions around. Once I switched to the audio book (reader is amazing), it allowed me to focus all of my attention ...more
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife...
...and so begins the masterpiece that continues to amuse and delight! Love, scandal, outrage and uncommonly silly sisters are all mixed up into a classic book I've finally read all the way through! I studied this briefly at school, but managed not to read the whole thing (a commitment I carried through most of my education of only doing the bare minimum...).
I had, however, ...more
Just as beautiful and emotional as the first time I read it. it truly is a literary work of art!!!
Aug 09, 2012
Tanya D
rated it
it was amazing
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romance,
fiction,
british,
classics,
relationships,
friendship,
historical-fiction,
pbt-100-fiction,
read-in-2003
Jan 24, 2014
Elsbeth
rated it
it was amazing
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