Reading Austen

[meganbmoore]

As yet, Emma remains the only Austen that I've actually read (despite being familiar with all of them), but I have all of them, which means it's poll time. Note: The sooner I read one, the sooner you can get me to do something like read a book about Fanny vs. Mummies.

Poll

Comments

[bzoppa]

I tried reading Mansfield Park in college and couldn't get through it, despite having written numerous papers on Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Persuasion. I think your #2 might have pushed me to actually read it!

[bookblather]

Oh my god me too (re: girlcrush). Mary is AWESOME! I took a class on Austen once and found myself arguing with most of the class about that. MP is my least favorite book for a lot of reasons, but Mary is not one of them.

[bookblather]

Machievellian or not, at least she's DOING something, you know? And she might actually have managed to save poor Maria's reputation if they'd bothered to listen to her. 'Course, that would also have meant that she'd have to marry Edmund, and I have fundamental issues with Edmund, so maybe it's not such a good plan after all.