I'd say read either one. If you want to read the best known of all her stories (and, I suppose, the most popular), then read Pride and Prejudice. For me, though, it wouldn't matter which one. I suppose that is because whenever I tell someone to read an Austen novel, I always suggest Persuasion. In my opinion, it is far superior to her other stories (though I enjoyed them all). Of course, I always follow the Persuasion comment with "read P&P if you want to read the popular one".
Sense and Sensibility; P&P just really annoyed me right from the start, but I loved S&S. Although if it is a general Austen starting-point, I'd reccommend Northanger Abbey, because it's much shorter than either of those and really creates a Jane-Austeny tone right from the start.
"The magic gave me insight, and you gave me a heart, but for all the heart and insight in the world, I am still a cat."
ywah i know what you mean :P , but is it really for like days or weeks/??Originally Posted by Tournesol
like, woooooww!!!
I recommend starting with her Juvenilla. You can read the Watsons (so you can understand her work better), then you can move on to Northanher Abbey (because it is light and her first completed manuscript, even though it was published after she died). Then you can read P&P (it is a lot more fast paced than S&S).
what does juvinella talk about/?
I guess I have to post another (Jane Austen) thread..Hmm
"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love Jane Austen, but I think the endings of both of these novels are too quick. She spend hundreds of pages detailing wonderful stories, and then BOOM: " and they lived happily ever after."
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