nicbat reviewed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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4 stars
liked it a lot more than I thought I would - first Jane Austen for me
448 pages
Spanish language
Published Jan. 4, 2017 by Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial.
Orgullo y Prejuicio (Edicion Conmemorativa) / Pride and Prejudice (Commemorative Edition)
by Jane Austen
Con la llegada del rico y apuesto Mr. Darcy a su región, las vidas de los Bennet y sus cinco hijas se vuelven del revés. El orgullo y la distancia social, la astucia y la hipocresía, los malentendidos y los juicios apresurados abocan a sus personajes al escándalo y al dolor, pero también a la comprensión, el conocimiento y el amor verdadero. Esta edición presenta al lector una nueva traducción al castellano que devuelve todo su esplendor al ingenio y la finísima ironía de la prosa de Austen. Satírica, antirromántica, profunda y mordaz a un tiempo, la obra de Jane Austen nace de la observación de la vida doméstica y de un profundo conocimiento de la condición humana.
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4 stars
I expected something deeper/monumental, having known nothing about the book before. But for such an old book it is well written and the characters and love story are cute ☺️
just_taoit reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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5 stars
Hilarious, and romantic. Fun times!
Hilarious, and romantic. Fun times!
WardenRed reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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5 stars
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Technically, this was a re-read, but also, I haven’t touched this novel since high school and until now I only ever read Jane Austen in translation, so it didn’t fully feel like one. For the most part, I had an excellent time with it. As far as enemies-to-lovers romances go, this one truly stands the test of time. There wasn’t a single dialogue scene I didn’t love, and the characters’ quips and observation often made me giggle. I loved the interactions within the Bennet family and, of course, the banter between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy—and how the fun parts intermingled with the cutting commentary about the society of the time (a lot of it still very applicable to certain …
How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Technically, this was a re-read, but also, I haven’t touched this novel since high school and until now I only ever read Jane Austen in translation, so it didn’t fully feel like one. For the most part, I had an excellent time with it. As far as enemies-to-lovers romances go, this one truly stands the test of time. There wasn’t a single dialogue scene I didn’t love, and the characters’ quips and observation often made me giggle. I loved the interactions within the Bennet family and, of course, the banter between Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy—and how the fun parts intermingled with the cutting commentary about the society of the time (a lot of it still very applicable to certain aspects of today’s life, I feel).
At the same time, there were a bunch of scenes that felt more like summaries, with lots of telling over showing, and those were kind of hard to get through at times. I expect these kind of thing when I read classics, though, and it always makes me ponder on all the reasons and ways storytelling in books has changed over the years. Which is genuinely a fun topic to think about, so I can’t really complain!
Also, something that utterly fascinated me about this book: there are so many characters, and all of them are not just completely unique and recognizable in their personalities, but also so intricately linked together and constantly influencing each other’s arcs! Such an absolutely genius example of a big cast.
xini reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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3 stars
3.5? qué diver! y bastante fácil de leer en original, imo. a veces demasiados nombres para mí, pero lo he disfrutado bastante. no me esperaba tanto orgullo y tanto prejuicio! ganitas de leerme sense and sensibility
Stephanie Jane reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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4 stars
Pride And Prejudice is a difficult novel for me to review because, although this was my first reading of Austen's work, I have already encountered its essential storyline in televised adaptations and numerous other novels so I felt as though I was revisiting the book rather than coming to it fresh. I enjoyed the humour, especially Austen's partly-veiled observations on the predicament of women rendered useless without a husband and, of course, her wonderful characters. Austen had such a talent for observation and for just exaggerating foibles enough to make people such as Mrs Bennet and Lady Catherine ridiculous, but not unbelievable. Personally I wasn't convinced by Darcy's complete change of behaviour mid-book, but both he and Elizabeth have wonderfully sparkling conversations and spats with the great energy fairly leaping from the page. The repression of their social situation contrasts brilliantly with the obvious strength of their emotional attraction to …
Pride And Prejudice is a difficult novel for me to review because, although this was my first reading of Austen's work, I have already encountered its essential storyline in televised adaptations and numerous other novels so I felt as though I was revisiting the book rather than coming to it fresh. I enjoyed the humour, especially Austen's partly-veiled observations on the predicament of women rendered useless without a husband and, of course, her wonderful characters. Austen had such a talent for observation and for just exaggerating foibles enough to make people such as Mrs Bennet and Lady Catherine ridiculous, but not unbelievable. Personally I wasn't convinced by Darcy's complete change of behaviour mid-book, but both he and Elizabeth have wonderfully sparkling conversations and spats with the great energy fairly leaping from the page. The repression of their social situation contrasts brilliantly with the obvious strength of their emotional attraction to each other.
I was interested to learn from Ian Littlewood's introduction that Pride And Prejudice was pretty much an overnight success upon its publication, but that it took some sixteen years and at least one drastic rewrite to get to that stage. The book was refused on its first submission in the late 1700s, even though Austen would have paid for the printing herself! An example to authors everywhere of the importance of not giving up!
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1 star
I finished this in agony. The dialogue is witty at times, but always at such a boring, inconsequential level. Most of the conversation is about how agreeable or disagreeable this or that person is, and while Austen tries to address this superficiality with the character of Mr. Darcy, his character arc is extremely superficial in its own way. Actually, this dickhead very predictably turns out to be a very kind, lovely and agreeable man once you get to know him.
The characters are boring. Mr. Darcy makes the very predictable transformation from total dickhead to precious darling in basically the snap of a finger. Elizabeth's only character trait seems being a smart-ass. Jane is a gullible fool. Mr. Collins is ugly and disagreeable. All Mrs. Bennet ever worries about is marrying her daughters. And Mr. Bennet doesn't ever give a shit about anything, except his daughter Lydia being …
I finished this in agony. The dialogue is witty at times, but always at such a boring, inconsequential level. Most of the conversation is about how agreeable or disagreeable this or that person is, and while Austen tries to address this superficiality with the character of Mr. Darcy, his character arc is extremely superficial in its own way. Actually, this dickhead very predictably turns out to be a very kind, lovely and agreeable man once you get to know him.
The characters are boring. Mr. Darcy makes the very predictable transformation from total dickhead to precious darling in basically the snap of a finger. Elizabeth's only character trait seems being a smart-ass. Jane is a gullible fool. Mr. Collins is ugly and disagreeable. All Mrs. Bennet ever worries about is marrying her daughters. And Mr. Bennet doesn't ever give a shit about anything, except his daughter Lydia being a slut (at least the novel wants you to look at her like that). In fact, Lydia is perhaps the most interesting character of all, but the epilogue clearly shows that we're supposed to hate her for not marrying rich and trying to obtain money from her sisters who did better on that end.
If the one-dimensionality of the characters is supposed to be for the purposes of satire, well then Austen forgot to make it funny.
flarion reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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Story is nice but the audiobook doesn't sound good 🤷
Story is nice but the audiobook doesn't sound good 🤷
princeofspace reviewed Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) by Garth Nix
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3 stars
An inversion of the typical fantasy tropes but just didn’t connect to this one.
Jens reviewed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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3 stars
Uh, yeah, not my favorite book, sorry Austen fans! I had very high expectations given the book's remarkable reputation, but I just found it to be a very long description of people discussing marriages, while visiting each other.
What I liked best about Pride and Prejudice are its characters - the plot drags on, but it is carried by its colorful cast of ladies and gentlemen (literally), who almost come alive while reading their eloquent monologues and dialogues about the world around them. They alone are "worth" at least two stars of this rating!
I have to admit I had a lot of trouble with the kind of language. The narrator and almost all characters use long-winded sentences with carefully selected words to convey their opinions, and I found the language in this one particularly difficult to understand. There are definitely many "quotable" lines, particularly the famous opening line of …
Uh, yeah, not my favorite book, sorry Austen fans! I had very high expectations given the book's remarkable reputation, but I just found it to be a very long description of people discussing marriages, while visiting each other.
What I liked best about Pride and Prejudice are its characters - the plot drags on, but it is carried by its colorful cast of ladies and gentlemen (literally), who almost come alive while reading their eloquent monologues and dialogues about the world around them. They alone are "worth" at least two stars of this rating!
I have to admit I had a lot of trouble with the kind of language. The narrator and almost all characters use long-winded sentences with carefully selected words to convey their opinions, and I found the language in this one particularly difficult to understand. There are definitely many "quotable" lines, particularly the famous opening line of the first chapter.
I am aware this is a book from the 19th century. I guess I'll stick to Victorian novels from a few decades later.
Eli reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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4 stars
Interesting book that definitely allows for immersion into the era where marriage was such a political and traditional process. And a very different way of speaking and interacting, so many rules. But in the end an enjoyable listen.
Balise reviewed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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5 stars
This was definitely a challenge to my English-reading level - which is quite obvious for the time it took me to read it ;) but oh-so-worth-it. I wasn't expecting it to be that funny, actually - and I'm also grateful that I "waited" long enough to read it that I was able to enjoy it (because I'm pretty sure the "funny" would have flown a few miles above my head 20 years ago :P )
This was definitely a challenge to my English-reading level - which is quite obvious for the time it took me to read it ;) but oh-so-worth-it. I wasn't expecting it to be that funny, actually - and I'm also grateful that I "waited" long enough to read it that I was able to enjoy it (because I'm pretty sure the "funny" would have flown a few miles above my head 20 years ago :P )
Leyssandra reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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4 stars
To be honest, the first few chapters I found rather confusing, but as the story progressed, I became really engrossed with some of the characters. And Austen's sense of humor made it very enjoyable.
To be honest, the first few chapters I found rather confusing, but as the story progressed, I became really engrossed with some of the characters. And Austen's sense of humor made it very enjoyable.
anka.trini reviewed Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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5 stars
Je öfter ich diesen Roman lese, desto mehr liebe ich ihn. Obwohl ich die Handlung in und auswendig kenne, fiebere ich immer noch so mit wie beim ersten Leben. Außerdem bin ich offener für die kleineren Details.
Es gibt wohl kaum ein anderes Buch, in dem die Hauptfiguren glaubhaft eine so große Veränderung durchmachen wie in diesem. Und es gibt keinen anderen love interest, den ich so vergöttere wie Mr Darcy.
Auntie Terror reviewed Sabriel (Abhorsen, #1) by Garth Nix
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5 stars
This is one of the best books I came to pick up by chance at a bookstore.
For me, this feels like high fantasy, though it actually could hardly be counted as that when looking at all the typical genre denominators which are missing here.
The world the author has built is quite interesting all by itself:
There is a wall separating the North where magic is very much alive and rampant, and the South which more or less boils down to a 1930s real world, from a technical point of view. In recent years, 'tourism' has been cut off because of a rise of necromancy in the North where the balance of power has been lost, as well as social and political stability.
There are three strands of magic which I feel could be sorted into three classes: necromancy (evil), charter magic (good), and free magic (chaotic). And there …
This is one of the best books I came to pick up by chance at a bookstore.
For me, this feels like high fantasy, though it actually could hardly be counted as that when looking at all the typical genre denominators which are missing here.
The world the author has built is quite interesting all by itself:
There is a wall separating the North where magic is very much alive and rampant, and the South which more or less boils down to a 1930s real world, from a technical point of view. In recent years, 'tourism' has been cut off because of a rise of necromancy in the North where the balance of power has been lost, as well as social and political stability.
There are three strands of magic which I feel could be sorted into three classes: necromancy (evil), charter magic (good), and free magic (chaotic). And there is the Abhorsen, a traveller between worlds, not only North and South, but also Life and Death, who combines charter magic and necromancy to keep the dead where they should be: buried.
The author has been quite clever in the choice of his heroine's background. Sabriel has grown up in the South and thus knows hardly any more about the North and its magic and problems than the reader does. When her father, Abhorsen, vanishes, she has to learn very quickly - about the North, the Dead, compressed free-magic beasts, and the fact that Abhorsen isn't dad's name, but his job. Which now happens to be hers.
I am very glad that I picked this up and read it so soon afterwards. While I'm writing this review, I'm waiting for books two and three to arrive, and I'm already looking forward to reading on in April in form of a buddy read.
