Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility

[spunky_bassist]

...Ok. Keeping this brief. I finally gave in to "girly classics" and read a Jane Austen novel for the sake of knowing what exactly people are talking about when they refer to her work (although, I imagine I should have read Pride and Prejudice given that it's the more talked about of the two "alliteration and alliteration" novels

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[trackstar99]

Jane Austen rules!

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[spunky_bassist]

You... have the best last name I've seen in my life.

[trackstar99]

Thank you! I am half-Faroese and half-British, hence the strange surname!

Where are you from?

[spunky_bassist]

Swiss and Welsh, with some Scottish and German. Sort of a typical American "mutt."

[littlestaralfur]

I'm glad you liked Austen!!!! She's one of my favorites, and as I had only read Emma and Pride and Prejudice this summer, in fact, like three weeks ago, I also finished Sense and Sensibility as well

[littlestaralfur]

oh and also, Jane Austen is much more snarky in her writing of S&S than she was in P&P, and the sarcasm is lovable, especially when all the characters take themselves so seriously!

[spunky_bassist]

Over time the book has sort of... upset me, as I let it settle. But your points make sense, and throw it in a better light. I really don't have the historical background to know what intellectual currents were running behind it; and you're quite right to point out Miss Steele and her obsession being considered simple

[spunky_bassist]

Not meaning I'm unlike a puppy, but that I seek a puppy.