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?

evulik, take heart. i will give it a 4th reading.

vbm, i just like how she wraps all the stories together, and describes the house, and how much stronger Elizabeth is than Lydia who though she's a bit of a namby-pamby character...won't spoil this.
i found Mr. Darcy sexy as hell because he's strong and silent, but has a soft side, liked Elizabeth's dad, maybe had better shut up to you all read further. have edited a few times already...
the third time i read the book was after finding this site. even bookmarked it. was supposed to study, et cetera, et cetera, but P&P held me fast.
what a dear, old friend!

What a wonderful book! I just finished reading it, and it has become one of my favorites!
I bookmarked P&P here, too!

Darcy was the one thing that got me through those movies. ;)

well I am just at (in or or :confused: ) chapter 5.... but Darcy seems to be extremely handsome... and besides, it's a challenge having strong men that end up as a weak ones ... if you know what I mean :brow:

seriously, I am still in the beginning... but this books is great. I must admit that also because of its easy english... I do not have a lot of time to be playing around with dictionary, although I am trying... for example I still cannot get through xxx forgot the name :goof: :brickwall I guess it was Hard Times... and the writer was Salinger??? I am lost, will have to get to this subject later ...

At last I also got free and began to read it. Honestly one post of "most boring book" inspired me to read it. I just wanted to be sure how much "June book" was boring. But I was amazed by its easy-language,too. (I remember a hard language of O.Henry.)
While I have no anything for discussion, I just engoy its easy-English.

Lovely lovely book... I don't know how many times I've read Pride and Prejudice... hmm, probably about 5 or 6 times or so. It was also included in the comparative literature class that I took last year, but I'm sad to say that 75% of the class seemed to dislike it. They found it predictable and thought the characters were stereotypical. I somewhat agree, however the predictability adds to its charm and the stereotypes (mrs Bennet for example) provide plenty of good laughs. And to be honest, most books are predictable in one way or the other, nothing wrong with that.
For those of you that can't relate to it because you find it outdated; it's true that the way of life is very different now from what it was during Jane Austen's time, but human follies remain the same. I am sure you have all met a Lydia or a mrs. Bennet sometime. ;)

Yep. Many. And I don't care to revisit them. ;)

I suppose we still live at that time. considering mother whose main goal in life is to get her daughters married... to a handsome, clever, rich, gentleman, honest, never lying, with a car, job, pool and house.... MAN... reminds me of mine mother (between us sometimes it leads me to considering suicide :brickwall ) hihi great book

hhhmmmmm...... kinda sounds like my mom too. Just finished the book, I really liked it.

everybody finished? I am moving slowly, too busy I guess :mad: 10 chapter is my present status... just finished about the event where Jane (or what is her name, I am losing name of characters easily hihi) is ill... just crossed my mind.. this book will be actual for ever... really... for example:

``She has nothing, in short, to recommend her, but being an excellent walker. I shall never forget her appearance this morning. She really looked almost wild.''

exactly the way people in the village talk about me.... (e have just 100 citizens, imagine the fun hihi) this is the same... I can try how much I want there will still be something bad... and also here... ladies had nothing better to do just to "speak about" others.... fun to read too boring to live ;) thanks 21st century :nod:

I first read P&P in year 5 and I loved it. It's my favourite classic. :D I've read it like 10 times by now, and recently I got even more obssessed with it and forced my mum to buy me the 1995 BBC miniseries adaptation :lol: My Darcy's one of my all time favourite characters. Jane Austen writes with a dry, ironical wit which adds a lightness and brilliancy to this novel. Characters such as Mrs Bennet and Mr Collins are pure literary genius, and are an essential part of the social satire present throughout P&P.

Ah yes the book is very nice. But I find the whole scenario funny and the trying to match-up thing really resembles and reminds me of how a lot of mothers try to find husbands for their daughters in Pakistan.

Sorcha -- You are a Juliet Marillier fan? :)

Yes. I love her books. :D. I have this obssession with reading fantasy. :p Have you read her books before?

Yup, I have read the Sevenwater's Triology and loved every part of it. :)

:rage: :rage: :rage: I do not have time to read it, I am still chap. 15. how long does it take to finish it? we are nearly in July... and I am still at the beg.

Okay, I wasn't going to read this book, but I changed my mind. I am still on like page 80, but I hope to have it done by the weekend. It isn't that bad, but I will keep my full opinions until I am done :P

ok, this makes two of us now... it is little difficult for me to read, cause I am moving. but I will do some reading this weekend..

you know what I noticed? there was the emphasis put on the officers - soldiers or whomever they might be... some sort of obsession by young ladies. This also remained the same, cause nowadays ladies are also attracted to "men-in-uniforms" ( :brow: ) so this book is pretty much about present time. with only one exception. It was "in" to speak like they did that time... and it is "in" to just think the way they were thinking that time. no matter how hard we might try, parents are always thinking about marrying their loving children.... :nod:

I made it to like page 200 now, and as of right now I have no major complaints about the novel, which shocks me. I don't do the classical romance well. lol It is strange to see how far and how little we have come in roughly 200 years.

oh yep, tell me about it. my parents do not talk about nothing else than marrying me... and the sentence used yesterday "what about just to get engaged" brought me with smile to this book.... exactly the same... hihi as we see, values did not change and the dress is coming back again..

Okay, I am done book now, now what?

i believe that now would be a good time to give your opinion on the work, Kiwi. i must admit that i am still only half way through the book, as moving has kept me busy the last few weeks. however, now that i am mostly settled in our new home, i am ready to pick it up and burn off the rest. i have to say that i am not totally thrilled with the story, i am finding the women too fickle and the men just unrealistic, although that may be just a symptom of being disconnected with the social expectations of past eras. regardless, i will finish the darned thing. off i go!

The only thing that comes to mind about the book was that it was a "charming " read.

I agree with you VBM, the book just didn't seem realistic to me. I mean, are people really like that? I did like Elizabeth and Darcy, though, to some extent. They are quite different than the rest of the characters in the novel. I mean, some of the things Elizabeth says are shocking after reading the dull chatter of the other women in the book. I really don't know whether I liked the book or hated it.

believe me that that book is very realistic. those characters really live...I know some of them personally, only the names and the date of birth (at least I hope) changed hihi The reading is rather, well not really negative and not very positive... I mean I read books that I "ate" in few hours, or days... this one is taking me three weeks already... but as I was also moving as VBM (so how is it? mine is fine... not 100% settled, but bed is there hihi) it is understandable... I would like to finish it soon. and then I will give you my final opinion.

I agree with Evulik, some of the characters in the book remind me of people I know.