Finally Pemberley

[horridporrid]

Aaand done. :) Seriously, how could I forget how very good this book is? It's so funny and roman!stuffed full of ust!tic and crisp. There wasn't a moment that dragged. Not when Elizabeth made Mr. Darcy explain exactly when and how he fell in love with her. Not when the story continued past the wedding and into their married life. (I'd forgotten

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[sistermagpie]

Yay!

This is partly why I hate when people talk about P&P as a romance novel since it's so far from Austen's pov. It's not about passion--that gets you into trouble with her. That's obviously going to be part of the relationship, but when they're alone.

[horridporrid]

One of the first things Elizabeth says to Darcy, as part of a conversation, is that nothing kills love more finally than poetry. And I think you could almost argue that this is Austen's theme. If you read poetry as passionate-romantic love then that doesn't work out well at all. That's Lydia and Wickham.

Of course, she doesn't take it too far, in that I think she sees the importance of there being some passion in love. Otherwise you end up with Charlotte and Mr. Collins. (Though, I think you could argue that the Collins end more happily than the Wickhams... but that might be cutting it a little too fine...)

And of course the most hilariously non-romance part of the whole thing is Austen cuts away whenever Darcy seriously declares his love. :D