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Never Mind!: A modern Pride & Prejudice-Comedy
Sometimes life can be a right bitch and just on the day Elizabeth Bennet is due to return to uni, her father suffers an accident that might leave him paralysed. Not a good state to be in as a farmer.
Putting her studies on hold, Elizabeth takes care of the farm and her family for the time being and at first, her life is far from exciting, as one might expect. - That is until a certain Charles Bingley buys Netherfield Park to turn the run down place into a conference centre, bringing his best friend and obnoxious sister as well as his mother and step-father with him. From there on, life will never be the same when with the help of some meddling fools, the proverbial shit hardly ever stops hitting the fan and pretty much everybody involved is in for the craziest ride of their lives.
This is a contemporary Pride and Prejudice-Comedy / social parody containing sarcasm, adult humour and situations as well as profanity. While this book does not contain any explicit adult scenes, it still might be unsuitable for anyone under 16 years of age.
Putting her studies on hold, Elizabeth takes care of the farm and her family for the time being and at first, her life is far from exciting, as one might expect. - That is until a certain Charles Bingley buys Netherfield Park to turn the run down place into a conference centre, bringing his best friend and obnoxious sister as well as his mother and step-father with him. From there on, life will never be the same when with the help of some meddling fools, the proverbial shit hardly ever stops hitting the fan and pretty much everybody involved is in for the craziest ride of their lives.
This is a contemporary Pride and Prejudice-Comedy / social parody containing sarcasm, adult humour and situations as well as profanity. While this book does not contain any explicit adult scenes, it still might be unsuitable for anyone under 16 years of age.
560 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 27, 2019
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June 16, 2020
Moder Pride and Prejudice variation.
Hilarious!
Oh my, what an hysterically funny book!
The adaptation into the modern era was very well done. Only a ghost of the timeline from canon was there but that gave it the unpredictability that I love.
Rated: M. Although there are no explicit sex scenes in this book, it had a generous amount of random nudity at the most inappropriate moments, a lot of innuendoes, sexual tension and a colourful language ( the f... word etc).
Elizabeth had to postpone her studies after her father had an accident, to run Longbourn farm. The handsome Mr Bingley purchased Netherfield and was turning it into a conference centre but not before his sister had offered it to a film crew for a week or two. Snickering wickedly...
There was a trip to Kent, (prepare to be surprised), and a sojourn to Pemberley (even more surprises).
Ends in a HEA, sort off...(There was a wedding). Their future happiness is somewhat reliant on Mrs Bennet. Had my conflict-shy self, been in Darcy and Elizabeth's shoes, I would have lost it.
To be continued and I cannot wait to get my hands on the next instalment. Will have to be content with rereading this one in the meantime.
Heartily recommend this book!
Hilarious!
Oh my, what an hysterically funny book!
The adaptation into the modern era was very well done. Only a ghost of the timeline from canon was there but that gave it the unpredictability that I love.
Rated: M. Although there are no explicit sex scenes in this book, it had a generous amount of random nudity at the most inappropriate moments, a lot of innuendoes, sexual tension and a colourful language ( the f... word etc).
Elizabeth had to postpone her studies after her father had an accident, to run Longbourn farm. The handsome Mr Bingley purchased Netherfield and was turning it into a conference centre but not before his sister had offered it to a film crew for a week or two. Snickering wickedly...
There was a trip to Kent, (prepare to be surprised), and a sojourn to Pemberley (even more surprises).
Ends in a HEA, sort off...(There was a wedding). Their future happiness is somewhat reliant on Mrs Bennet. Had my conflict-shy self, been in Darcy and Elizabeth's shoes, I would have lost it.
To be continued and I cannot wait to get my hands on the next instalment. Will have to be content with rereading this one in the meantime.
Heartily recommend this book!
July 28, 2019
3.5 rounded up to 4 stars
Warning: This story ends with "To be continued... - Eventually." as we are briefly told that the wedding finally came off.
There is a great need for an editor!!! But there are many funny moments, some so outlandish that I was just shaking my head. Mrs. Bennet and Aunt Cathy become BFFs in this tale and with each having their own style, think over the top, frills, lace, neon colors, etc., and you might have a hint of what they plan and put into place as an engagement, a rumored pregnancy and a wedding become even hinted at. Both women are determined and often act without even a hint of what they have decided is appropriate until it is in place.
The beginning of the story has to do with Bingley buying Netherfield and how Caroline makes a deal through deceit that allows a porn movie to be filmed at that location. William is there, of course, and there are many humorous incidents while the crew takes over.
ODC fall in love fairly quickly. Both are basically "farmers". She has taken a break from uni to take over for her injured father managing the farm. After meeting William at a dance and being annoyed when he refuses her request to dance, Elizabeth falls ill and can't keep up with the farm. We read of William putting his knowledge to work so the livestock are not neglected while at the same time he uses skills learned in rearing his younger sister to get Elizabeth's sisters to also help out. Lydia says it all when she states, "Respect!" to her father who questions why he can't gain the same attitude and help from his daughters.
Neither William or Elizabeth are willing to admit they are in love...they are friends. However as Aunt Cathy persuades her nephew to sign up for one of her educational weekend workshops at Rosings events conspire to force the issue.
Much of the latter half of this story has to do with ODC batting heads with Aunt Cathy and Mama Bennet over wedding plans: the reception, food, location, flowers, even the colors of the church's walls and the crucifix hanging over the altar are up for the tug-of-war that ensues.
I will say that this tale kept my interest even though I was very annoyed by the errata and need for editing. And then when the ending was a cliff hanger I was EXTREMELY annoyed. The story is long so I can see the need to stop some where but to do so without any real plan to continue the story was just a tad upsetting!!!
Warning: This story ends with "To be continued... - Eventually." as we are briefly told that the wedding finally came off.
There is a great need for an editor!!! But there are many funny moments, some so outlandish that I was just shaking my head. Mrs. Bennet and Aunt Cathy become BFFs in this tale and with each having their own style, think over the top, frills, lace, neon colors, etc., and you might have a hint of what they plan and put into place as an engagement, a rumored pregnancy and a wedding become even hinted at. Both women are determined and often act without even a hint of what they have decided is appropriate until it is in place.
The beginning of the story has to do with Bingley buying Netherfield and how Caroline makes a deal through deceit that allows a porn movie to be filmed at that location. William is there, of course, and there are many humorous incidents while the crew takes over.
ODC fall in love fairly quickly. Both are basically "farmers". She has taken a break from uni to take over for her injured father managing the farm. After meeting William at a dance and being annoyed when he refuses her request to dance, Elizabeth falls ill and can't keep up with the farm. We read of William putting his knowledge to work so the livestock are not neglected while at the same time he uses skills learned in rearing his younger sister to get Elizabeth's sisters to also help out. Lydia says it all when she states, "Respect!" to her father who questions why he can't gain the same attitude and help from his daughters.
Neither William or Elizabeth are willing to admit they are in love...they are friends. However as Aunt Cathy persuades her nephew to sign up for one of her educational weekend workshops at Rosings events conspire to force the issue.
Much of the latter half of this story has to do with ODC batting heads with Aunt Cathy and Mama Bennet over wedding plans: the reception, food, location, flowers, even the colors of the church's walls and the crucifix hanging over the altar are up for the tug-of-war that ensues.
I will say that this tale kept my interest even though I was very annoyed by the errata and need for editing. And then when the ending was a cliff hanger I was EXTREMELY annoyed. The story is long so I can see the need to stop some where but to do so without any real plan to continue the story was just a tad upsetting!!!
July 26, 2019
Although Darcy is insulting to Elizabeth at the dance where they first meet, the rest of the story is barely recognizable as P&P-inspired except for the character names and their relation to each other. The silly plot is pretty over-the-top right from the start, becoming increasingly outrageous as you read on. It's a funny story in a crazy-sit-com kind of way. (Americans can think of a Bob Newhart show, with Darcy and Elizabeth as sane characters surrounded mostly by truly not-sane and incredibly stupid ones).
There are a bunch of nonsensical subplots in the first part of the book, but they manage to work okay because it's such broad comedy. Lizzy is the beleaguered glue that holds her family together when Mr. Bennet, a modern farmer, has a serious injury. Jane doesn't live at home (she already has a job as a nurse), Mrs. Bennet is a clueless twit, as are Kitty and Lydia, and Mary is too much of a klutz and too wrapped up in her studies, so none of them are any help. Though this doesn't sound like a comical premise, Ms. Roth squeezes every bit out of it using Lizzy's voice as she makes wry observations about her dysfunctional and mostly stupid family. (It's profanity-laced, BTW, with plenty of F-bombs, so don't embark on this if you're offended by foul language.)
Charles Bingley takes possession of Netherfield, a broken-down wreck of an estate bordering Longbourn, with major renovation plans to turn it into a convention center. Now we get Darcy's narration and his perspective on events. When he and Charles have had enough of Caroline Bingley's nonsense and kick her out, she exacts some unexpected revenge that brings a filming crew to shoot a porn flick to Netherfield. (There's a good deal of nudity, BTW, so you might want to avoid this if THAT offends you.)
Things just get crazier and crazier. The blondes-are-stupid trope gets a major workout with an original character named Gloria who's part of the film cast. Netherfield might be overrun by the film production team, but Longbourn becomes overrun with excessive purchases for a nonexistent baby. A Netherfield gutter pipe leads to a rosebush mishap, and Darcy spends a memorable night in the local jailhouse. Catherine deBourgh's Rosings hosts seminars on various eclectic subjects, with Darcy and Elizabeth attending one with the intention of taking dance lessons that turns out to be a wedding seminar. Oops! And Darcy should really learn NOT to drink with his cousin and friends, because that rarely ends well.
I'd have rated this much higher had the author ended the book once Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet declared their mutual love for each other with a brief HEA to savor the resolution. However, in the last portion of the book, the team of Mrs. Bennet and Catherine deBourgh continually overruling Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding plans gets old and un-funny, and the stag and hen parties aren't any better.
The wedding storyline is the equivalent of an extended epilogue or a second volume anyway, with the original plot already resolved. The more pages I read, the less I felt like finishing. Darcy doesn't take control with the obvious solution until way past anyone's level of tolerance. This book is LONG!! The length of the book would be excessive even if this had a single cohesive plot (which it does not).
It's quite British so, fellow Yanks and other non-Brits, be prepared to frequently Google unfamiliar cultural references and idioms. Since it's written as the internal musings/external observations of the two main characters, the writing is informal in the extreme. That makes sense, but there are too many editing errors sprinkled about that have nothing to do with the writing style. At one point, I believe there must be a section missing, because the dialogue abruptly jumps from one subject into the middle of another, leaving the reader in the dust.
The book has some good laugh-out-loud moments early on, but it is seriously in need of a content editor (for better plot construction and pruning the excessive length) and a copy editor (for misspellings and occasional grammar errors). It's funny, but not funny enough to outweigh the negatives here. I can't recommend it.
There are a bunch of nonsensical subplots in the first part of the book, but they manage to work okay because it's such broad comedy. Lizzy is the beleaguered glue that holds her family together when Mr. Bennet, a modern farmer, has a serious injury. Jane doesn't live at home (she already has a job as a nurse), Mrs. Bennet is a clueless twit, as are Kitty and Lydia, and Mary is too much of a klutz and too wrapped up in her studies, so none of them are any help. Though this doesn't sound like a comical premise, Ms. Roth squeezes every bit out of it using Lizzy's voice as she makes wry observations about her dysfunctional and mostly stupid family. (It's profanity-laced, BTW, with plenty of F-bombs, so don't embark on this if you're offended by foul language.)
Charles Bingley takes possession of Netherfield, a broken-down wreck of an estate bordering Longbourn, with major renovation plans to turn it into a convention center. Now we get Darcy's narration and his perspective on events. When he and Charles have had enough of Caroline Bingley's nonsense and kick her out, she exacts some unexpected revenge that brings a filming crew to shoot a porn flick to Netherfield. (There's a good deal of nudity, BTW, so you might want to avoid this if THAT offends you.)
Things just get crazier and crazier. The blondes-are-stupid trope gets a major workout with an original character named Gloria who's part of the film cast. Netherfield might be overrun by the film production team, but Longbourn becomes overrun with excessive purchases for a nonexistent baby. A Netherfield gutter pipe leads to a rosebush mishap, and Darcy spends a memorable night in the local jailhouse. Catherine deBourgh's Rosings hosts seminars on various eclectic subjects, with Darcy and Elizabeth attending one with the intention of taking dance lessons that turns out to be a wedding seminar. Oops! And Darcy should really learn NOT to drink with his cousin and friends, because that rarely ends well.
I'd have rated this much higher had the author ended the book once Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet declared their mutual love for each other with a brief HEA to savor the resolution. However, in the last portion of the book, the team of Mrs. Bennet and Catherine deBourgh continually overruling Darcy and Elizabeth's wedding plans gets old and un-funny, and the stag and hen parties aren't any better.
The wedding storyline is the equivalent of an extended epilogue or a second volume anyway, with the original plot already resolved. The more pages I read, the less I felt like finishing. Darcy doesn't take control with the obvious solution until way past anyone's level of tolerance. This book is LONG!! The length of the book would be excessive even if this had a single cohesive plot (which it does not).
It's quite British so, fellow Yanks and other non-Brits, be prepared to frequently Google unfamiliar cultural references and idioms. Since it's written as the internal musings/external observations of the two main characters, the writing is informal in the extreme. That makes sense, but there are too many editing errors sprinkled about that have nothing to do with the writing style. At one point, I believe there must be a section missing, because the dialogue abruptly jumps from one subject into the middle of another, leaving the reader in the dust.
The book has some good laugh-out-loud moments early on, but it is seriously in need of a content editor (for better plot construction and pruning the excessive length) and a copy editor (for misspellings and occasional grammar errors). It's funny, but not funny enough to outweigh the negatives here. I can't recommend it.
June 21, 2019
This modern Pride and Prejudice inspired story features a very strong Elizabeth who runs the family dairy farm while her father recovers from an injury. The farm has been in her family for over 200 years. Bingley and Darcy are introduced as Bingley buys Netherfield to convert it to a conference center. Darcy is a modern version of 'stuffy' but is also a farmer among other things with his Pemberly estate.
The interaction between Elizabeth and Darcy runs with canon until they attend a seminar at Lady Catherine's estate. From there the story goes a bit squirrelly in my opinion as it is largely wedding planning issues and avoiding relatives.
It was a fun read and is has a to be continued . . eventually as the ending.
The interaction between Elizabeth and Darcy runs with canon until they attend a seminar at Lady Catherine's estate. From there the story goes a bit squirrelly in my opinion as it is largely wedding planning issues and avoiding relatives.
It was a fun read and is has a to be continued . . eventually as the ending.
June 22, 2019
5 Brilliant Stars!!
Great Story with lots of action & fabulous humor. It needs a human copy editor to smooth out some rather rough edges, but it remains fantastic in spite of the grammatical awkwardness.
Great Story with lots of action & fabulous humor. It needs a human copy editor to smooth out some rather rough edges, but it remains fantastic in spite of the grammatical awkwardness.
July 11, 2019
Hilarious!
I love Jane Austen but this adaptation had me laughing until I cried.
Great summer read that will keep you in stitches.
I love Jane Austen but this adaptation had me laughing until I cried.
Great summer read that will keep you in stitches.
January 22, 2022
Ugh!
This has to be the most annoying and inane modern day JAFF variation that I've read so far. It's supposed to be funny. It's not, unless your idea of humor is crass behavior, and extremely annoying characters. Instead of true humor, be prepared to slog through deep sarcasm and situations that are so stupid and unacceptable that I had to stop multiple times and just walk away, I was so disgusted. A book that is funny and clever is a rare treat, but this one is definitely not it!
This author apparently thinks it's hilarious to take the worst annoying characters from P&P, and multiply their idiocy by ten. On top of that, she creates situations that have no connection to reality, things that no sane person would be doing, and words that no sane person would be saying. And I only made it through about a third of the book!! Yuck!!
Obviously, I don't recommend this, and I feel cheated out of my money and my time. Ugh!
This has to be the most annoying and inane modern day JAFF variation that I've read so far. It's supposed to be funny. It's not, unless your idea of humor is crass behavior, and extremely annoying characters. Instead of true humor, be prepared to slog through deep sarcasm and situations that are so stupid and unacceptable that I had to stop multiple times and just walk away, I was so disgusted. A book that is funny and clever is a rare treat, but this one is definitely not it!
This author apparently thinks it's hilarious to take the worst annoying characters from P&P, and multiply their idiocy by ten. On top of that, she creates situations that have no connection to reality, things that no sane person would be doing, and words that no sane person would be saying. And I only made it through about a third of the book!! Yuck!!
Obviously, I don't recommend this, and I feel cheated out of my money and my time. Ugh!
June 21, 2019
I really enjoyed the 1st half. But the 2nd half is one long wedding planning high jinks that I could have done without. I just don't find that funny and ended up skimming most of the end. Read through half of chapter 40 and be done. I would have liked to see more about the couple coming together which was very short.
August 1, 2021
Absolutely histerical
I couldn't stop laughing to the point of tears and pains from laughing omg I can't wait for the next chapter EXCELLENT BOOK HISTERICAL ABSOLUTLY LIVLEY
I couldn't stop laughing to the point of tears and pains from laughing omg I can't wait for the next chapter EXCELLENT BOOK HISTERICAL ABSOLUTLY LIVLEY
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