The Book Vipers discussion

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My favourite Austin...read many times. Have a beautiful clothbound edition covered in mustardy peacocks...so looks as wonderful as it reads! Such humour and many twists and turns. Will be interesting to hear what first time readers think of Lizzie.

Gah! Mr Collins is soooooooooo boring, can I vote him out the book?

Mr Collins just proposed to Elizabeth, he is such a muppet. haha

Jason wrote: "Mr Collins just proposed to Elizabeth, he is such a muppet. haha"

Don't you love the way he won't believe that she can possibly refuse him? And the bit where Mr Bennett is appealed to and says if she doesn't accept Mr Collins her mother will never speak to her again, whereas he will never speak to her if she does!

Yes I relate to Mr Bennett, that would be the sort of thing I would say if my wife was as crazy as Mrs Bennett.

Charlotte was very sneaky I thought, a very smart move by her.

Wonderful book, haven't read it for a couple of years but it's one of the few in my collection that I return to now and then as a comfort read.

SPOILER

Adore: "In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." And the whole reaction to it!

I still have my very first Scholastic paperback edition of P&P, the highlights I've made throughout the book over the years have dulled but my excitement each time I read it has yet to!


"I cannot fix on the hour, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."

well Mr Darcy now keeps popping up wherever Elizabeth happens to be and she is very confused by this. I reckon in another 30 pages he will be at a stage where he can pull her hair and run away. hehe

Hmmmmmmmm. I can't believe how annoying Mrs Bennett is, I don't think a character has made me this angry since I tried to read harry potter. Lydia has run away with Mr Wickham, saw that coming a mile away haha.

75% of the way through and Lizzy still ain't got it on with that Darcy Chap.

Lydia is now married, I didn't like her, so rude and arrogant. Glad to see the back of her as she has now left for Newcastle.

Bingley and Darcy are back at Netherfield, let the battle commence.

Yay I finished this really liked the stand off with guns at the end, every much reminded me of a John Woo film.

Very glad I gave this book a go and a big "in your face school" for not being arsed to educate me proper.

Death and glory finish appealed then?! Glad you enjoyed it.

Yes perfect ending, Jane had some pretty sweet moves.

I liked it very much as well, I've read it sometime ago.

I wasn't as frustrated with Mrs Bennett as you. It's this kind of character were I just went: "Yeah, yeah." She brought some humorous moments to the story. I was much more frustrated by the two youngest daughters. They are really awful and embarrassing in my opinion.

I think I felt the girls embarrassment too much and that's why I was so annoyed with Mrs Bennett.

So which other Jane Austen book do you guys recommend I read next?

As you are a bit of horror fan you should try Northanger Abbey which is Austen's parody of the gothic novel.

Sense and Sensibility is in much the same vein as P&P. Persuasion is good. Never read Northanger Abbey though.

PS Mansfield Park will annoy you as the heroine is insipid.

Thanks, I was thinking of persuasion as the next book. I will check out northanger abbey too thanks

I still haven't read Sense and Sensibility. I love all the others apart from Mansfield Park. I hate Fanny Price with a passion.

My OH says he wants to marry Anne Eliot ( from Persuasion) - sadly for him I think he's already married to Emma.

I finished this last week and gave it 5 stars. It was funny, and very interesting to know from "inside" how all the marriage stuff was lived, specially by women. I'll definitively try another J. Austen book.

I have northanger abbey but not got round to reading it yet.

Jason, I'm reading Wuthering Heights at this moment. I'm only 16% into it, but remembering your comments here, I thought you could be interested in taking a look (if you didn't read it already). It's not so funny as P&P, and it's definitively more intense. Just a thought...

If I remember rightly it is a ghost story? Isn't everybody in it dead but they don't know it? Or is that a movie?

Sandra wrote: "Jason, I'm reading Wuthering Heights at this moment. I'm only 16% into it, but remembering your comments here, I thought you could be interested in taking a look (if you didn't read it ..."

Just started this one Sandra. :-) Bring on the zombies