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Reading Jane Austen books is like eating potato chips, you can't read just one. So this is one that I finished on my mad Jane Austen binge after rereading Pride and Prejudice in my mid twenties. I had read it in school, but then reading it on my own I realized what a great writer she was. It's so hard to find good books, so I read all her books in under a month and then had no more to read.
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I read this book for a library discussion group and it is, admittedly, somewhat outside of my normal genres. Keeping in mind the age of the work, I found the extended, paragraph length sentences tolerable and well crafted. There are lessons to be learned here, and the narration remained interesting with exemplary prose. I realize this is a classic work by a highly respected author, but at the end, I couldn't help feeling that I had just read a Victorian soap opera.
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