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Sense & Sensibility (2013)

by Joanna Trollope

Series: The Austen Project (1)

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A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters--Elinor, Marianne and Margaret--as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.… (more)
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    Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid (dizzyweasel)
    dizzyweasel: Another book in The Austen Project, wherein popular contemporary authors take on Jane Austen's novels and "update" them for the modern world. Not as wonderful or as complex as the originals, but fun re-imaginings.
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Ugh. A clumsy amalgam of Jane Austen’s wise and witty original novel and Trollope’s ‘modern day’ view.
It feels more like Trollope copies word for word the original (stopping only to cut out the best bits) and then stuck thing like texting and drug use to make it sound modern. It ends up being annoying- and all of the characters show up as petty and helpless. Apparently women don’t work in modern times. Apparently they still marry for money.

See, in Austen’s time, this was necessary because women weren’t allowed to own property or work for money, and so were dependent on finding a good man to support them. Trying to shove this into present time simply doesn’t work. Anyone who can text on a phone can certainly be expected to have a job, so get on it, ladies! And how is it everyone has a cell phone plan with data but no one can afford to own a car?

Joanna Trollope should be ashamed of herself, and this whole Austen project rewrite lacks even the fun of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies”. Awful and decidedly unnecessary. ( )
  Dabble58 | Nov 11, 2023 |
I really enjoyed this modern day version of Sense and Sensibility ( )
  LisaBergin | Apr 12, 2023 |
Rather well done ( )
  Smoscoso | Oct 4, 2022 |
Trollope borrows the plot and characters of Austen's work and brings them into the 21st century. Cell phones and social media replace handwritten notes delivered by footman. A serious asthma attack replaces the head cold turned putrid, which would be an unlikely cause of deep concern today. The loss of Norland is explained by Henry and Belle, parents of the sisters, having been a free spirited couple who had scorned the formality of marriage, rather than by the now outdated practice of entail. Entertaining.
  ritaer | Apr 4, 2022 |
A fun modern reimagining of Austen's original story about the Dashwood sisters. ( )
  bookwyrmqueen | Oct 25, 2021 |
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A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters--Elinor, Marianne and Margaret--as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.

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