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To meget forskellige søstres kærlighedshistorier. Den ene romantisk og stormfuld, den anden rolig og besindig. Foregår i den engelske overklasse i 1800-tallets begyndelse.
I love Jane Austin, I was more interested in this story than any of the others I have read so far. It was refreshing to know that Marianne could have a happy ending without Mr. Willoughby, and that Elinor got hers with Edward. ( )
This is my first Austen book to read. I thought she did a wonderful job, generally, of giving each of her characters their own distinct personality. This is the only book I've read, I think, where I could relate so much to a character. Elinor has been typed as an ISTJ, and I could definitely see it in her thoughts and actions. This was my favorite aspect of the book.
However, I could not for the life of me understand why Elinor was attracted to Edward in the first place - this didn't seem to make sense given her personality. I also thought the circumstances in which their relationship became a possibility were too easy and convenient. The drama with Willoughby attempting to seek forgiveness at the end (and receiving it, to a point) also made me roll my eyes. He had done nothing worthy of pity or forgiveness and I felt like Austen was trying too hard here.( )
Up to volume 1 chapter 16 and it just struck me how we're told over and over through Elinor that Marianne's courtship with Willoughby is indecorous yet she's the only person who says so - her mother doesn't care and the only person who's commented on it so far is the social circle's gossip, who didn't seem to be condemning it either. I imagine part of this is my distance from the social standards of the day so I can't tell what's super bad or whatever although it seems to me pretty obvious why an unmarried man and woman going to the man's house for a day can be seen as improper and it's weird to me that not much is made of it, unless that's coming up. I dunno, so far it's just been kind of strange to me.
that ending is absolutely off the wall, all the difficulties of the past 150 pages get solved in 10. and Edward's behaviour makes absolutely 0 sense. i feel like I'm just not able to comprehend 19th century ideas of romance, propriety and relationships. which i guess is a pretty big flaw on my part. also Jesus Christ the age gap!!! 36 and 17!!!!! what the fuck!!!!! that's sick
like I'm glad Willoughby didn't end up with Marianne, his eleventh hour confession and justification was some real self serving crap. but to instead just be like "oh yeah the character who's been mooning over her in a creepy way for the whole book with no response suddenly makes her fall in love" is just silly and kind of cheapens the plot because there's been 0build up or anything. honestly the whole plot is weird b.c there so little contrast between the two romances. Edward gets written about descriptively early on, then disappears for most of the book because he had 2 girlfriends. Willoughby is talked about much more, but is in the exact same situation. both Elinor and Marianne experience people believing there's an engagement and being embarrassed, for Marianne it's more public but only by a bit. although Marianne is presented as impulsive etc, at least her feelings seem to have some basis, unlike Elinor who moons over a guy she's been around for a month total maybe with 0 romantic overtures involved. and then is immediately willing to marry him at the end. it doesn't feel like a conflict between "sense and sensibility" more 2romances that end differently because the author was willing to give 1of them an utterly implausible escape route from a bad situation.
maybe I'm a dumbass for not properly appreciating classic literature and for not understanding the romantic angle fully. idk at this point
I will say I thought volume 2 was overall pretty great, volume 1 is kind of uneven and volume 3 starts great and has a kind of naff ending. I liked Austen's commentary on human relationships and stuff quite a lot. I just wasn't a huge fan of the plot. I think part of it was reading it in a bad mood so I didn't really fully appreciate it. It's absolutely not a bad book and in other circumstances I might like it a lot more
Also for whatever reason the penguin classics version has a footnote which spoils something later, it's the one for Hamlet. I have no idea why they do this, it's annoying enough having to learn to skip the introduction to avoid having the ending spoiled but it's super frustrating for explanatory notes to do so too. I don't care a ton about spoilers it just seems silly. ( )
This book is on the list of books to read that my grandfather was keeping. I found the list and decided to finish it for him. This book was very hard to get into, but once I got past the first 30 pages or so, it was enthralling. I already know the end having seen the movie, but the book is so much better. ( )
Turns out I like my biting Victorian commentary with a little less superiority and snark. Elinor and Marianne are not so sympathetic as Jane and Lizzy. ( )
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The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex.
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Well, I am convinced that there is a vast deal of inconsistency in almost every human character.
... Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the family in general, soon procured herself a book.
People always live for ever when there is any annuity to be paid to them.
She had an excellent heart; -- her disposition was affectionate, and her feelings were strong; but she knew how to govern them: it was a knowledge which her mother had yet to learn, and which one of her sisters had resolved never to be taught.
His temper might perhaps be a little soured by finding, like many others of his sex, that through some unaccountable bias in favour of beauty, he was the husband of a very silly woman, - but she knew that this kind of blunder was too common for any sensible man to be lastingly hurt by it.
"Well, it is the oddest thing to me, that a man should use such a pretty girl so ill! But when there is plenty of money on one side, and next to none on the other, Lord bless you! they care no more about such things! - "
[...] after experiencing the blessings of *one* imprudent engagement, contracted without his mother's consent, as he had already done for more than four years, nothing less could be expected of him in the failure of *that*, than the immediate contraction of another.
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Between Barton and Delaford, there was that constant communication which strong family affection would naturally dictate;—and among the merits and the happiness of Elinor and Marianne, let it not be ranked as the least considerable, that though sisters, and living almost within sight of each other, they could live without disagreement between themselves, or producing coolness between their husbands.
To meget forskellige søstres kærlighedshistorier. Den ene romantisk og stormfuld, den anden rolig og besindig. Foregår i den engelske overklasse i 1800-tallets begyndelse.
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