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I'm reading Emma for my English class and I hate it. I've read it before and hated it before. So that, at least, hasn't changed.
The first time I read it was in the first few foggy weeks of my sobriety (what was I thinking?). It was long and confusing and nothing happened. I hated it, but was too stubborn to give it up and look for something I could comprehend, like a comic book.
Many years later. It's still long and very tedious. It isn't confusing and not really boring, but not much happens. The reason I hate it is because Austen is so damn good at what she does. She draws her characters with such a fine hand, and there is not one single solitary person in this book that I don't want to push in front of a truck. They're all insufferable, and reading about the nothing that happens except the interminable conversations is driving me mad.
Yes, I realize that the interminable conversations and insufferable personalities was exactly the point of Jane Austen. She was tortured by it her whole life and chose to share that with the world. Thanks, Jane. I guess it was what she had to do to keep from throttling somebody. I know exactly how she feels.
The first time I read it was in the first few foggy weeks of my sobriety (what was I thinking?). It was long and confusing and nothing happened. I hated it, but was too stubborn to give it up and look for something I could comprehend, like a comic book.
Many years later. It's still long and very tedious. It isn't confusing and not really boring, but not much happens. The reason I hate it is because Austen is so damn good at what she does. She draws her characters with such a fine hand, and there is not one single solitary person in this book that I don't want to push in front of a truck. They're all insufferable, and reading about the nothing that happens except the interminable conversations is driving me mad.
Yes, I realize that the interminable conversations and insufferable personalities was exactly the point of Jane Austen. She was tortured by it her whole life and chose to share that with the world. Thanks, Jane. I guess it was what she had to do to keep from throttling somebody. I know exactly how she feels.