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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Earlier this year I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time and was really looking forward to reading more Austen. Sense and Sensibility did not live up to the high standers I had set for it, but It was a good read. The slow start describing the family situation ruins the race of the story and makes it very had to get into. I had a problem with Marianne as a character, but I can see how she could be endearing to some. In short this was a classic worth reading. ( )Thus far, my favorite Austen novel. Her prose rendered my eyes glued to the pages. A classic story set in England. Marianne and Elinor experience the highest and lowest points emotionally in their quest for love. One begins to feel sorry for Colonel Brandon and wonders why nobody has recognized his amiable qualities before. Marianne's eventual love for Brandon arises in the last page of the book. Maybe Twilight had one redeeming feature. It made me think "right, that's it, I'm going to read something by Jane Austen now to get the taste of Bella & Edward out of my brain". And at the bookshop, there was a tantalisingly gorgeous and ridiculously cheap edition of Sense and Sensibility, and I was thinking that maybe I hadn't read it, or then again, maybe I had... So, due to my incipient early-onset-Alzheimer's, I got to re-read a Jane Austen novel, as if it was brand new. Completely cleaned the synapses of glittery vampires, too. What's not to love? I really enjoyed this amusing tale of two sisters, one far too emotional for her own good, and the other one far too emotionally bottled up for her own good. I did side with Elinor for the most part, but I actually had a lot of time for silly Marianne, who usually I would have dismissed as a drama queen. I can't believe that anyone could write a drama queen as a character I would care for, but I obviously underestimated Miss Austen's talents. Shame on me. And now I can go and read Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. :) no reviews | add a review
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