Jane Austen discussion
Hello! What's your favorite Austen book?
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Dec 19, 2010 07:02AM
pride n prejudice...thats like one of the most amusingly fiery books i've ever read...
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Of course, prirde and prejudice. I really really love Mr. Darcy.
I agree with you. Steffi. You should look on the other thread about the 2005 version of Pride and Prejudice and see for yourself.
I love Pride and Prejudice too, but I also read Northanger Abbey, and Sense and Sensibility.
Northanger Abbey. I am reading Sense and Sensibility, it seems to be a different "take" on what Jane Austen normally writes.
For now my favorite is Pride and Prejudice but I have three more to read so that may change.
ONce we read all of them all our favorites might change,I am really enjoying Sense and Sensibility, I also like Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey, also have not read Emma, or the others.
My favorite so far is Mansfield Park. It is the book that made me an Austen fan, and even made me appreciate it more when I re read it.
I really love them all but my favorite is Persuasion. I think my least favorite is Mansfield Park.
Kelly wrote: "I really love them all but my favorite is Persuasion. I think my least favorite is Mansfield Park."I think Persuasion is my favorite too. Sometimes I think maybe Sense and Sensibility is but Persuasion is my go to Austen when I need cheering up. I just love that letter from Captain Wentworth!
That letter again, the stuff romance is made of. sigh. . .
Hello! Im IslaRose, and my favorite Jane Austen novel (so far!) is Pride and Prejudice. It seems like thats everyone's favorite :) I loved Persuation, though, and I like what I've read so far in Northhanger Abbey. I read a good prtion of Sense and Sensibility, but didn't like it as much as the other 2 I've finished.
Hi, I'm Antía, from Spain. My love for Austen's novels is divided between Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park.. not that I didn't like the rest of her work, but those are my ever favourites.
Hello Islarose and Antia! Welcome to the group. Thanks for telling us your favorites. I find the older I get, it is usually the last one I re-read - although Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice are always at the top of the list!
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Pride and Prejudice is my fave, with Persuasion a close second, so we're on the same page! I hope you like it here!
Hey Anita, I share your enthusiasim for Mansfield Park.
thanks everyone :) Paul, I've always wondered why Mansfield Park isn't so popular, even around "austenians" I don't know why everybody (at least the people I've discussed the book with before arriving here) seems to dislike Fanny Price.
I think it is because Fanny is the most passive of Austen's characters. She is also the most moralistic. Who amongst us would rather put on the play than refuse to be a part of it?
Paul wrote: "I think it is because Fanny is the most passive of Austen's characters. She is also the most moralistic. Who amongst us would rather put on the play than refuse to be a part of it?"
I just thought Fanny was too shy.. but I understand she isn't such witty and appealing character as Lizzy Bennet. I still love how readers get in Mansfield through her eyes
I just thought Fanny was too shy.. but I understand she isn't such witty and appealing character as Lizzy Bennet. I still love how readers get in Mansfield through her eyes
hi antia my fav. jane austen book is northanger abbey.
I like Northanger Abbey, also Pride and Prejudice, and am enjoying Sense and Sensibility.
Paul, I do think Fanny is passive -- about things that don't matter to her. She's not a boat-rocker and really hates the lime-light. But, she is very able to stand up for her principles and those things that do matter to her. As Antia said, Fanny is shy. I think it is her very shyness that enables her to make us see all of the Mansfield characters with such clarity; she's not in the thick of things as far as being included by the others (unless they "need" her), so she can see all of them, blemishes and all, for all of us. I had to read Mansfield at least a million times before I could understand her at all. And, now I'm quite fond of her!
Karlyne wrote: "Paul, I do think Fanny is passive -- about things that don't matter to her. She's not a boat-rocker and really hates the lime-light. But, she is very able to stand up for her principles and those t..."
I don't mean to say any heroine by Austen is better than other.. I love Lizzy's wit, Elinor's sense, Fanny.. but also Anne in Persuasion.. she also seems very shy and that sometimes she isn't taken into consideration and both are under-estimated by the people around them. And I love both Fanny and Anne, I think they are both intelligent women with principles (I thought Fanny's reason for not joining the drama project was because she didn't aprove the plot of the play?)
It just surprised me that Mansfield and often Fanny seem unpopular compared to other Austen's books
I don't mean to say any heroine by Austen is better than other.. I love Lizzy's wit, Elinor's sense, Fanny.. but also Anne in Persuasion.. she also seems very shy and that sometimes she isn't taken into consideration and both are under-estimated by the people around them. And I love both Fanny and Anne, I think they are both intelligent women with principles (I thought Fanny's reason for not joining the drama project was because she didn't aprove the plot of the play?)
It just surprised me that Mansfield and often Fanny seem unpopular compared to other Austen's books
Probably, Antia, it's because she is so un-modern to us (I think even in her own time she might have been considered old-fashioned). Her values are things that we, who grew up with Hollywood flashing all around us, just don't really understand. I remember that the first time I read Mansfield as a teen-ager, I was very confused by Fanny's refusal to act in the play and by her conviction that to turn her uncle's room upside-down for it was a wrong thing to do. I couldn't figure out why! It's taken re-reading and maturity (ok, a lot of maturity) to finally come to know, love, and understand her. She's one of my favorite characters, too!
Haven't read Mansfield, but I have a copy now. Don't want to comment right now, don't know all the finer details of the book.
I havnt read Mansfeild Park, either. Its one of the 2 I dont have. I asked for them for Christmas, but unfourtunatly didnt get them :( I dont borrow Austen novels from the library, because the last time I did I rechecked it 3 times because I kept re-reading it!! :) Anyway, that was Pride and Prejudice. I dont have Mansfeild Park or Emma. I dont count Sanditon as one of her "novels" because really she only wrote part of it. Some other woman finished it, which I find highly offensive to the author and the work. How could that woman honestly say she knew exactly how Austen wanted it to end??? Or exactly how she wanted it to play out?? Jane Austen wrote with a flare and ingenious that was unparaleled and unsurpassed in her century and in my opinion in any century. No other woman (or man, for that matter) has the right to finish what another started. They should have left Sanditon as Austen's greatest mystery.
Pride & Prejudice is my favourite because its the only one that I have read. Plan on reading the rest very soon, got them lined up on my to read shelf.
Hi, my name is Kristina and I am new to posting here. I have been on Goodreads a while but haven't really used this forum yet. My favorite Jane book is Pride and Prejudice, my next favorite is Persuasion. :0)
Hello all, I cannot decide between Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I love both stories!
Hi Kristina and Lisa. It is nice to have you here! Persuasion is my favorite followed very closely by Pride and Prejudice. And I do love a good sequel of P&P any day! Looking forward to "seeing" you around and "hearing" what you think!
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Kristina, you are exactly like me in your choice of first and second faves! I also like S & S too, Lisa! Great to have you here!
Thank you Megan and Rachel for the welcome. I would love the hear about some good P&P sequels. I have read Darcy's Story and Mr. Darcy's Diary, as I am a huge Darcy fan :0) As I am getting older Persuasion is really speaking to me though.
Persuasion. That is the absolute best for me. I suppose I did save the best for last. It was the last of her books that I read and when I finished it, I not only knew it was, for me, her best story, but it was one of the best that I would ever read by anyone.
Um i have to say it northanger abbey is my fav. jane austen book. Then pride & prejudice or emma still cant make up my mind.But the first austen book I got is sense and sensibility that's what got me reading jane austen books.
Hello everybodyI haven't read all of her books, so far my favorite is Emma. I think it deals more with the struggle of a character on correcting her vices and trying to learn something more than in the others. Also, I think mr knightley is one of the most admirable men in Austen's books and I feel in love completely with him. I will start reading Persuasion this week, so I might change my mind jejeje.
Hi Ivonne. I hope you enjoy Persuasion. Let us know what you think!
Megan wrote: "Hi Ivonne. I hope you enjoy Persuasion. Let us know what you think!"thank you Megan, I will surely come to discuss Persuasion with you all :D
Although I have not read all jane austen books the first one that i read was Sense and Sensibility. I fell in love with the language and concepts of living in a time like that. Its the book that made me fall in love with her
I also fell in love with the language n how they lived back then. Has anyone seen the movies for the books?
Brenda wrote: "I also fell in love with the language n how they lived back then. Has anyone seen the movies for the books?"I've seen several: Pride and Prejudices, both the BBC series and the movie with Keira Knightley. I've seen Emma in two versions, one with Gwyneth pltrow and other with Kate Beckingsale. I like the Beckingsale one better.
Sense and Sensibility is a movie classic, love Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson on it.
nice I since all i think. Emma, p&j, s&s, persuasion, northanger abbey, mansfield park is that all i dont remember I also seen them with diffrent people.
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I have seen all the theatrical Austen adaptations that I know of, and I have seen a lot of the BBC adaptations as well.
Hi Rachel, Hope you are feeling better. No wonder haven't seen you posting recently. BBC movies are my one weakness.
Hi everybody,I'm new here so please forgive me for any errors in protocol(about writing comments and getting to know this group better),but I think most people would agree Pride and Prejudice was Austen's most beautiful and difficult to not re-read kind of books. But of course,most of her books are somehwere in the same category.And yet Northanger Abbey was something entirely different. But Pride and Prejudice is my favourite.
I totally agree with you Anuja!
Welcome Anuja! I think you will find a lot of people here agree with you! Most of us love to re-read Austen and seem to find something new each time!
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You and I are of the same mind about Pride and Prejudice--it's the best, over and over again!
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