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

[thistleingrey]

The best thing about Northanger Abbey (it is a bit rougher on the edges) is that it is basically Gothic parody.

P&P has almost too many edges filed neatly down. It's why I prefer S&S to it, by a hair. (Also, Darcy cannot be my book bf because I am much more Darcy than Elizabeth; this are-you-more-like-Darcy-or-Lizzie thing seems to line up pretty well with whether people love P&P madly or not.)

[dancesontrains]

this are-you-more-like-Darcy-or-Lizzie thing seems to line up pretty well with whether people love P&P madly or not.

I haven't actually heard of this!

[snarp]

You should read Pride and Prejudice because beatonna has yet to make comics about any of the others.

[kakkobean]

I only voted for Mansfield Park because that's the book I know the least about and think that finding out more about it from you would be very nice indeed >.>

[bookblather]

I picked Persuasion, which is my favoritest favorite, because of Anne and Wentworth dancing around each other (and Wentworth getting his head, quite deservedly, messed with for a while), Anne being really, geniunely right for most of the book, and the Crofts. I adore the Crofts.

Also seconding the people saying Northanger Abbey is a parody. I think I saw that you've read Mysteries of Udolpho and some of Mrs. Radcliffe's stuff, so you should be fine. It's just that having read Northanger Abbey both before and after reading the gothic literature of the time, it is so much funnier after.

[marspeach]

Oh my God! You must read them all right away! Start with Sense and Sensibility and read them in order! Or at least read Pride and Prejudice, since it's universally loved