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View Poll Results: What’s your favorite Jane Austen novel?
Northanger Abbey 2 5.71%
Sense and Sensibility 1 2.86%
Pride and Prejudice 13 37.14%
Mansfield Park 1 2.86%
Emma 4 11.43%
Persuasion 5 14.29%
Something else 1 2.86%
I have yet to have the pleasure 5 14.29%
Austen’s awful 3 8.57%
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Old 03-08-2022, 02:27 PM   #31
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That was a fascinating read, thanks.

[Some spoilers for P&P]

Lizzy should have been far more understanding of poor Charlotte. Speaking of whom, good for her! She saw her chance and took it.

I once read in some commentary (don't remember where) that Charlotte's situation was probably one of the more realistic depicted in Austen.

This isn't much of a spoiler but I'm tagging it just in case.

Spoiler:
Plenty of women in that time period who did not have much money would have agreed to marry someone they didn't really like for financial reasons. Her husband wasn't great company, but at least he mostly left her to her own devices and was not cruel.
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Old 03-08-2022, 02:29 PM   #32
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I voted for Pride & Prejudice. I always enjoyed Elizabeth's sense of humor. Of course Jane Austen's humor in general is one of the main reasons I like her books. Northanger Abbey was probably my least favorite.
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Old 03-08-2022, 03:23 PM   #33
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Yay! Sense and Sensibility finally got some love!
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Old 03-09-2022, 09:10 AM   #34
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I voted for I have yet to have the pleasure but I'm not sure I would ever read Jane Austen. It seems a bit stuffy and centered around upper crust people, although I realize I'm saying this as someone that has never read it and am vastly uninformed on it, it's just my impression from reading plot summaries and the like. As someone else mentioned, I'd be more interested in the servants' lives or something like that.
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Old 03-09-2022, 09:52 AM   #35
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Yay! Sense and Sensibility finally got some love!
I'm still struggling with my vote, because I confess that I am unduly swayed by my love for Ang Lee's S&S movie. Totally inappropriate to allow it to influence how I feel about the books--no argument--but damn, I love that movie and normally, I never--never--read Regency, Romances, etc. They're really not my cuppa. It's an odd thing.

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Old 03-10-2022, 04:06 PM   #36
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Understood. Lots of people on Mobileread read science fiction and/or fantasy that I have no interest in. That doesn't mean I think it's awful - I'm sure that as with any genre, some is good and some isn't.
90% of everything is crap. Sturgeon's revelation.
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I just discovered this thread, only to see that the vote is closed. For the record, I would have been torn between Emma and Persuasion as my favourite, probably leaning towards Persuasion.

I did enjoy reading the comments on the thread, and the essay Pride and Predators to which hildea gave the link. Thanks very much for that.
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It has been said that if you want to study the psychology of human beings, you should not make a study of psychology per se. Instead, just read Austen, Shakespeare, Melville, etc.
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