Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Sometimes when I think about "classic books" I forget that there is a reason they became classics.

I was unfair in my judgement of this book before I read it. I thought it was going to be boring, that I wouldn't want to read it and I had the whole "Holy Cow How Am I Going To Do A Whole Project On It?" attitude. I thought it would be boring and without a good plot. I thought that the language would be so hard to relate to that I would just wish that I was the kind of person to SparkNote things.

I was entirely wrong.

Before I continue on, let me just say that this is my raw opinion of the book prior to doing any research on it's author or on any other aspect of the book.

Lists. Lists are good.

Things about the book:
1.) The language: When I first started reading this book, I was very thankful for the dictionary feature on my Kindle. Words like "fortnight" and "felicity" were new to me - even if they shouldn't have been. Although it took some time, I got used to it and was able to easily read the book. (Hoorah for the expansion of knowledge!)

2.)The Plot: Oh the plot was wonderfully twisted and yet somewhat predictable. I guess predictable was the wrong word here...it kept you hoping for things to work out in the way that you wanted them to.

3.) The Characters: Jane Austen did a beautiful job at developing the characters she created with in this story. I became connected with them and really lost all sense of reality after reading for a while. The way she wrote lead you to believe these were real people and convinced you to hope for them.

4.) The Dialogue: I found Austen often used the character's dialogue to set the scene and mood instead of just describing it. (This is not a bad thing. She still described surroundings at time but...hopefully you get the idea.) This also ties in with Elizabeth's prejudice against Darcy in the beginning because you are only presented with one side of the situation so you are lead to believe certain things about different characters.

There are more things buuut...I do have to do a whole project on it so I don't want to ruin the book for myself quite yet. Basically I think it was a wonderful book and that it should be read by everyone at least once in  their life time. Its like three in the morning. But.

I LOVED THIS BOOK.

Cheers,
-Laura