I'm reading "Pride and Prejudice" rignt now.

[terrya]

Ok, I've never read Jane Austen. But the City of Chicago has been sponsoring a "Book of the Month" thing to encourage people to read. "Pride and Prejudice" is September's book.

I think it's a tremendous idea the City of Chicago is doing with this. Plus...it's introducing me to Jane Austen. :-)

[winga222]

1. One of my favorite books

I read it in high school and didn't much get it. Would have been nice if the teacher had mentioned that it was a comedy. Re-read it after college with that knowledge in mind and loved it. Enjoy!:hi:

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Sense and Sensibility had the same stiff style, I'm into Hesse !

[cssmall]

3. I'm sorry. I have learned to despise most works from the time, save for

poetry. If I want to sleep, poorly, I'll read Austen's soap opears. The Bronte sisters were better.

[Rowdyboy]

4. I always enjoy that style of writing......

Sometimes its hard to wade through, but the language is so beautiful and artistic. Its a gem. Enjoy...

PS....I'm curently engrossed in "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets" so what the hell do I know.

[MasonJar]

5. Jane Austen is my favorite author for years now. I was thrilled to

get to visit her museum in Bath this summer, a truly inspriring experience. I have read all of her books several times, but I have read Pride and Prejudice at least 20 times. There is a phenomenal 6 episode BBC series with Colin Firth and Jennifer Eyle. Of course most of her other books have been filmed. This Firth/Eyle version is the second BBC series; the first one is also excellent. The beauty of Jane Austen is that she is so clever; it is an education in linguistics just to read her words. The museum had three pics of Jane; it seems that the one we always see was done by her sister, who according to their neice and nephew, did not capture Austen, who they say was a very pretty lady.

[ExclamationPoint]

6. I read it in middle school

I was lucky enough to know it was a comedy, so i thoroughly enjoyed it and always liked the secondary characters, eg. mary, mrs. bennett, etc.
a great deal.

[Richardo]

7. I'll be interested to know how you like it - I've never read Austen

...and you should see some of the quotes from Mark Twain about her. :scared: Rweeerrrr! <--- catfight noise

[politicat]

8. Reading it from the perspective that it is about economics, not love.

I picked up the idea somewhere about Sense and Sensibility, and am now reading all of Austen from that perspective.

The introduction to the Penguin edition (by Tony Tanner) is great, considering the interplay of Romantic philosophy on the culture of the day.

[bread_and_roses]

9. One of my all time absolute favorite novels

Read and re-read I don't know how many times, always with enjoyment. The language is a delight, witty and graceful and very spare compared to works later in the century.

For her other works, "Emma" is stellar, skip "Mansfield Park" (dreary), Northanger Abbey is somewhat juvinile, and "Sense and Sensibility" is good but not up to "Emma" or P&P. "Persuasion" is lovely but somewhat melancholy.

[Captain Hilts]

10. I understand why people read it more than once.

You read it the first time for the plot and subsequent times for the writing.

Enjoy!

[AuntieM1957]

11. Elizabeth Bennett rocks nt

[Thirtieschild]

12. My favorite Austen book

The first time I read PRIDE & PREJUDICE I read the last page, returned to page one and read it again. The writing is of its time, but the satire, the humor, the story and the character delineations are as good as it gets. Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine are beyond compare.

[peaches2003]

13. Greatest romance ever written?

P&P has to be read over and over; you'll find something new and clever and witty every time. What a joy this book is and several of JA's others also. And the films of Emma, S&S, and of course most of all P&P, the Colin Firth masterpiece! Love them all. Was there ever a hero as romantic as Mr. Darcy? (Or Colin Firth either?)