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Old 06-16-2011, 10:37 AM   #47
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Originally Posted by MaggieScratch View Post
And yet Elizabeth Bennet turned down TWO very eligible proposals of marriage: one from a man who was to inherit her family home--which would protect her and her sisters and mother from becoming homeless in the event of her father's death--and one from a man of excellent fortune and high social standing. Golddigger!
Yeah, but we -- or at least I, since I picked the zombie option -- am not saying that the girls are gold diggers. Just that the story of Jane trying to get Blandy McBlanderson and Lizzie trying to get Prickface the Third to marry them is boring to me.

I especially hate it when Lizzie starts reprimanding herself for being so rude to Darcy and OMG I COULD HAVE HAD THIS PRETTY HOUSE AND THIS NICE MAN AND WHAT WAS I THINKING when (a) he had been incredibly rude to her and richly deserved a verbal lashing and (b) this is so freaking dull that my brain is trying to evacuate my head.

Honestly, I dislike Lizzie for the same reasons I dislike Bella from Twilight. (Heresy, I know!) The first half of the book seems to involve Lizzie being intensely catty in her head to the various friends, relations, and family members around her. (Particularly her younger sisters who we are Not Supposed To Like, despite the fact that I think they are sometimes more sensible than the designated protagonists.) The second half of the book involves her excoriating herself for precisely the wrong thing: i.e., for not realizing how obviously AWESOME Darcy is/was in the first half of the book.

I don't find her to be a sympathetic character. I like Jane well enough, but she's so limp and simpering that I don't really care for her either. Rather than being shy (Jane) or catty (Lizzie), I'd prefer everyone were just candid.

"Mr. Darcy, I don't appreciate how rude you were to me just there. Please don't speak to me again unless you wish to make amends and start over."

How hard would that have been, really? And it would have saved us the Big Misunderstanding -- which is the most boring of all romantic storylines ever, period.

Totally my subjective opinion.
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