“I heard a lot of negative things about this book along the lines of the movie being better, the characters being flat ect ect... but I loved it! The story line became a mix of a memior and stream of conscience. We (the narrator always brings the reader into the story, by using personal pronouns, perhaps as Austen herself or maybe just another fan as she seems to have the same tendancy toward hero worship of the writer?), experience things not as they happen, but experience things as they happen while we get character backgrounds so that we understand why they are reacting that way. The only gripe I have is the deminished role of Prudie. She's such an engaging character, but all we really see of her are a few drunken rambles and a bit of voyuerism. Yes, I agree that the movie was good, but it was just your run of the mill "chick flick" this was elegant and real. I felt that I had experienced everything along with the readers, as if I too were a 28 year old teacher with a quarter life crisis, a danger-craving, opinionated lesbian, a match-making dog breeder, a multi-divorce who was "letting herself go" a woman struggling to hold her family together, or a forty-something man who could never escape women. It was truly likable and the urge to identify myself with these characters is just as strong as the urge to identify with Jane Austen's characters.”
Opal wrote this review Friday, May 29 2009.
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