June Book: Pride & Prejudice.

Pride & Pejudice by Jane Austen

http://www.online-literature.com/austen/prideprejudice/

LMAO at the number of people who hate this book. :D :) :P

Oh, mr darcy........!!

I'd rather have a poke in the eye with a sharp stick than read this book.

I've had to sit through the Ang Lee movies with my enraptured mother and our friend...several times on video tape. She has Jane Austen's complete works, and has begged me to read them for years. I've been stalling on this one all week. Not looking forward to it, but I'll get cracking Sunday.

I was really looking forward to reading the Handmaid's Tale...which I have finished now and found it a great book - after failing in my attempt to read the Hunchback of Notre Dame that I couldn't get on with at all. I guess I will give this month's book a miss altogether..can't be bothered with Pride and Prejudice at all. Maybe next month there will be a book that I can read, enjoy and enjoy discussing....

In that case, I'd suggest nominating one before the spots are full.

I don't know what to think of this book... I suppose I could give it a start, but it just doesn't seem like my kind of book. I mean, I could be wrong, but it sounds really sappy and predictible...

i've read it three times for starters, it's not one-dimensional, and it's a wonderful book.

I think for its time it was really something spesh. For our time? Probably not...... Especially not with things like 'Bridget Jones's Diary' floating around. *shudder*

Okay, if this offends anyone...suck it up. :p I need to rant.

I am not reading this book ANYMORE. It's like a fashion magazine gossip column and it makes me want to retch. In fact, it may be the single most distasteful thing I've ever attempted reading. I will now happily return to Dostoevsky for the remainder of the month.

I must admit it is an easier read than the Illiad......

Actually, this month's book was part of the reason I signed up for the forum. When I first tried to read this book, I was in middle school and reading it on my own, so I had no context, and absolutely no interest in anything having to do with romance. Seeing it here and reaproaching it with the opportunity of discussion intregued me. I read the first thirty or so chapters here on the website, along with the overview in one night. Once I realized how toungue-in-cheek it was, I loved it. Although I did get some weird looks for laughing out loud at it in places.

don't be so negative, please... I have one month of holidays, finally nothing to study and I decided to improve my vocabulary and read something "cool"... so :idea: and I came here to pick up the name of the "June Book".... :brow: and then I saw the responses.... :( nobody willing to read it through with me? :brow:
it will be fun :banana:

ok, so I read first chapter plus introduction and? I like it... to be more precise I love it hihi but on the other hand I am all to these things... :) relationships, talking, nonsense, gossip etc etc... hmmm ;) relaxiiiiing after stress at work...

i hear what you are saying Em, but i am going to read this book to the end. firstly because i have yet to fully participate in the book club, and with all my posts, its the least i could do. and secondly, because amuse says it is a good book, and if she says that, then im sure that there is something in there that is valuable. im going to find it. she says its there....um....As, where is it?