Which to read first?

[Andy3003]

Okay a very trivial question..

Which would you read first....

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Hunter S. Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Has anyone got any thoughts about these two books? I appreciate they are VASTLY different but both to an extent do provide some social commentary, are both still relevant today?

Do you personally like these books? And if I do like them, do you have any recomemndations for other books by these authors or other authors of a similar style? (I appreciate the obvious like the Brontes or F.Scott Fitzgerald)

I have read P+P, but that's the only JA book I have read - which I did quite enjoy although it was read as part of my gcses - so didn't find i got full enjoyment out of it.

Cheers,
Andy

[Schokokeks]

Isn't there a movie also called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In case it is based on the novel you mentioned, I'd definetely go for that one, I found the movie really cool :D.
You can still read Jane Austen afterwards, since you have already read Pride and Prejudice by her. Why not do the time jump ;) ?

[B-Mental]

If you want a good read go with Mansfield Park. Want a psychedelic trip to Vegas with a paranoid drug-addict well Thompson is your man. I've read Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson, and found it a little easier to read, but less enjoyable than FLILV.

[kathycf]

Isn't there a movie also called Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In case it is based on the novel you mentioned, I'd definetely go for that one, I found the movie really cool :D.
You can still read Jane Austen afterwards, since you have already read Pride and Prejudice by her. Why not do the time jump ;) ?

The movie is based on the novel. Sure, why not read both? Personally I would read Austen first. :)

[malwethien]

I don't recommend reading Mansfield Park first only because if Pride and Prejudice is the only other Jane Austen book you've read, you might have the idea that Mansfield Park is similar to it (romantic, funny, with witty heroes and heroines)...but Mansfield Park is very "toned down" and is not like P & P in those respects....so...you might be a little disappointed. But otherwise it is a good read. You might want to try reading other Jane Austen books first, like Sense and Sensibility, or, one of my personal favorites, Persuasion - or even Northanger Abbey, before reading Mansfield Park.

Haven't read Fear and Loathing....so I can't say anything about that....