Robert Blumenthal asked this question about The Reading List:
Was anyone else disappointed in how the author used Pride and Prejudice in this novel? I felt that she went deeper into every other novel on the list and almost treated P and P as a silly soap opera.
Elanna Wasn't it Mark Twain who said "Everytime I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone"?
I feel th…more
Wasn't it Mark Twain who said "Everytime I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone"?
I feel the same. P&p, in a way, IS a silly soap opera. A silly soap opera that I, as well as more illustrious people before me, not least Mark Twain, keep re-reading...
I haven't read this novel yet, and I am not sure I want to keep it on my to-read shelf. However, now I feel a bit warmer about it :D(less)
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