Pride and Prejudice in read with Marines

Nov 20, 2011 Mari rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: 2016, favorites-of-all-time, 2019, 2020, 2018, 2017, classics, 2013

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[November 1, 2013] - Considering how many times I've read this, I shouldn't be surprised by how familiar it is, but that was the feeling I was overwhelmed with this reread. I knew these words so well and still they hadn't lost their ability to entertain and inspire. Favorite book is favorite book for a reason.

[April 9, 2016] - Marking for reread. I read this a heck of a lot quic Check out this podcast episode we did with many but not all of our P&P Feelings:

[November 1, 2013] - Considering how many times I've read this, I shouldn't be surprised by how familiar it is, but that was the feeling I was overwhelmed with this reread. I knew these words so well and still they hadn't lost their ability to entertain and inspire. Favorite book is favorite book for a reason.

[April 9, 2016] - Marking for reread. I read this a heck of a lot quicker than I intended to, but the story just flew by. There are books that I reread that lend themselves to continued observations and new interpretations. This book is just so familiar. I said that last time I reread it to, but that feeling is so pervasive as I read these scenes and lines that are nearly memorized. I love this story. I'm not sure if I would've loved it had I picked it up as an adult, but this is a story that has grown up with me. I'm always in awe of how funny Austen is, and Lizzy by extension. There isn't a subject or character mentioned that we don't get some witty or tongue-in-cheek statement about and I love it.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to watch all the adaptations.

[November 22, 2017] Marking for reread. I'm super behind this year on my reading goal, but I have managed to reread the three classics I strive to consume each year: Jane Eyre, Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice.

This time around, Lydia's story really jumped out to me and how unrepentant she was to the very end. I caught a cold a couple weeks prior to reading this, which of course means that I watched both the Keira Kneightly adaptation as well as the BBC mini-series. It struck me how those two adaptations went about portraying the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Bennett. The 2005 version took pains to show more connections between the characters, whether that was Jane and Lizzie's sisterly affection or tenderness between Mr. and Mrs. Bennett. The book, however, I think is pretty straight forward about how Mr. Bennett feels for his wife. His heartfelt warning to Lizzie about not having her unable to respect her partner in life stood out to me this time around as well.

I love this story so darn much and there isn't really a time in my life when I'm not in the mood for it. I could pick it up tomorrow and read it all over again. There are worse things to be total trash for, I guess.

[March 7, 2018] Marking for reread. I just reread it, I know, but I got sick and this just makes me feel better. To be honest, I fell asleep at some point during the audiobook but then I just re-listened to the whole thing? So I probably read this 1.75 times, but it's cool. We'll mark it down once.

[September 21, 2018] I don't know how to keep track of my re-reading of this anymore because I discovered the audiobook this year and I've listened to it multiple, multiple times. Sometimes I fall asleep to it though and IDK.

[2019] It's funny that my last update is about not knowing how to track this anymore because that's what I was going to say here. I've just marked this on the final day of 2019 to stand in for the many, many, many times I listened to this story this year. I am in a perpetual state of reading Pride and Prejudice. This is the soundtrack that soothes me. This is a story I love every part of. I've truly reached the no more to say stage of media that is just mine now. Thank you, it belongs to me.

[2020] I guess it's tradition, now, that the final book I mark as read for the year is Pride and Prejudice. How many times did I read it this year? lol. ...more

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Jan 10, 2009 Nicole Sweeney rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites

6/29/2018
It looks like my only edition on GR will forever be this audiobook, but that's just as well because I really, truly loved this experience of it, and will probably actually return to it in the future as a comfort read (which is the essential reason I downloaded it in the first place 鈥� that and we're going to discuss it on the podcast at some point).

I had only read this book once, a decade ago, and while listening to it this time I was struck by how many details I had sort of flattened ou ...more

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Jan 03, 2011 Antonia rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, i-own

The most epic love story ever. A book that should not be absent from anyone's library. ...more

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May 26, 2021 Stephanie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, before-goodreads, i-ship-it, claaaassic

This was such a lovely way to experience this story. Rosamund Pike did a really good job with her performance.

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Jan 23, 2016 Zezee rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: did-not-finish, classics

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I thought I would enjoy reading Pride and Prejudice this time. After all, I鈥檓 older, wiser, and more mature than the last time I read it. A few years usually make my reading the classics a more positive experience. I hated The Great Gatsby when I read it in high school, but now I like it. And I鈥檓 pretty sure I wouldn鈥檛 have enjoyed Jason and the Argonauts as much as I did last year if I鈥檇 read it while in high school or college. I wasn鈥檛 as patient with stories when As posted on .

I thought I would enjoy reading Pride and Prejudice this time. After all, I鈥檓 older, wiser, and more mature than the last time I read it. A few years usually make my reading the classics a more positive experience. I hated The Great Gatsby when I read it in high school, but now I like it. And I鈥檓 pretty sure I wouldn鈥檛 have enjoyed Jason and the Argonauts as much as I did last year if I鈥檇 read it while in high school or college. I wasn鈥檛 as patient with stories when I was younger.

So I thought the same would be true for Pride and Prejudice: I鈥檇 return to it a few years later and love it so much that I鈥檇 go out and buy all the copies with pretty covers. But I guess I just don鈥檛 vibe well with Jane Austen. And when I tried to figure what exactly I don鈥檛 like about the story, I found it hard to come up with an answer. At first I thought it was the story. But I enjoyed the movie adaptations and I still thought the story funny when reading it. Then I suspected the writing. But I enjoyed the prose and sped through parts that contained mostly prose. Then I realized it鈥檚 the dialogue. It threw me off and since dialogue makes up a good bit of the story, I ended up not liking the story at all.

I can鈥檛 say what exactly I didn鈥檛 like about the dialogue except that it confused me and was tedious to read. Often, I had to rephrase the dialogue in a way that I would understand. Even thinking about it makes me what to stop writing this reflection. Ugh! Let鈥檚 move on and discuss something else.

It鈥檚 the characters that make this story worth reading and I like how Austen introduces them. They all stand out, even the bookish Mary, who isn鈥檛 given much voice in the story though she tries. I鈥檓 not sure if I would have thought of this prior to listening to a great BBC discussion on Pride and Prejudice, but I began to consider the narrator as a character while I read. In a way, it was as if I was in attendance at one of the many country dances with the narrator and she was whispering conspiratorially in my ear, telling me about all the characters in the story. Only a few characters are able to speak for themselves, otherwise I learn about them through the narrator鈥檚 gossip.

The characters who stood out to me this time were Mr. and Mrs. Bennet: Mrs. Bennet because I sympathized with her efforts to marry off her daughters and Mr. Bennet because I didn鈥檛 like him. I don鈥檛 agree with Mrs. Bennet鈥檚 methods and, yes, she is silly, but my heart went out to her because she does the best she can to ensure a comfortable future for her daughters. The only way the girls can have a secure future is if they marry a man with some sort of wealth and since the girls are getting on in years, Mrs. Bennet is, understandably to me though I would be annoyed by her, aggressive in getting them husbands. I thought the narrator was a little too heavy-handed with Mrs. Bennet and other minor characters because we only see one side of them. This works for the story but I guess because I started to like her a little, I wanted to see another aspect of Mrs. Bennet.

As for Mr. Bennet, he鈥檚 a good man but a horrible father. He鈥檚 lackadaisical and doesn鈥檛 take an interest in his daughters鈥� future. Sure, I understand he鈥檚 introverted and enjoys his quiet time and is beyond tired of wife鈥檚 and younger daughters鈥� hysterics, but I still thought him unkind for constantly criticizing them simply because he is more knowledgeable and has a more stable constitution than them. In that way, Elizabeth takes after her father since she takes pride in being better and smarter than her peers. Because Mr. Bennet doesn鈥檛 take much initiative in securing a comfortable future for his daughters, the responsibility falls to Mrs. Bennet and I didn鈥檛 like that he poked fun at her efforts while he does nothing.

From the reviews I鈥檝e heard and read, everyone who has read this book likes Elizabeth. I can see why. I admire her smarts and that she doesn鈥檛 blindly chase after men like some of her sisters and that she has strong morals, which she stands by. But I didn鈥檛 like her. I think it鈥檚 because of her pride. If I鈥檇 continued reading beyond Chapter 18, I probably would have felt differently about her.

鈥淲ithout thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object: it was the only honorable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and, however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want.鈥�

Overall: 鈽呪槄鈽嗏槅鈽�

Great story but I didn鈥檛 enjoy it or learn anything new from it. I recommend the movies. ...more

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Jul 07, 2007 Lia rated it it was amazing

There is nothing more to write.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a great book must be read and re-read and re-read.

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Jun 19, 2014 Olivia rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, should-reread-sometime, romance, also-saw-the-movie

I'm sorry, but I'm kind of underwhelmed. It simply did not engage me as much as I hoped, and I suppose a lot of that has to do with the fact that the plot doesn't really interest me in the first place, but I read it to see if I would be surprised. I did enjoy some of the satire and social commentary, and I appreciate that, but as a whole it didn't come together for me. Perhaps if I enjoy one of the many adaptions I will return and find something new to offer. On its own though, it was difficult ...more

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