Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
My rating: 3/5 cats
it is official: now everyone on the planet has read this book. i was the last holdout, and being the last person (excluding those who are just being born…… now), i am sorry i didn’t like it more. i knew going into it that i was not a jane austen girl; i had read two others before and thought them bloodless and mercantile. but everyone said to me, “well, you haven’t read pride and prejudice is why you don’t like her.” which i thought might be valid. but it’s not. because i still don’t care. this is not the greatest love story of all time. it’s more like the most amiable alliance of compatible feelings that ends up in a mutually agreeable union and merging of fortunes and temperaments. i mean, really. this book needs heathcliff to come barreling in on a stallion all wet from the moors to ravish all five of these daughters and show them what a real man is all about. now there’s a love story…
