Actually good novels or overrated chick-lit?
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Actually good novels or overrated chick-lit?
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Jane Austen is garbage. Her books are for women
Why did Nabokov like Mansfield Park, then?
Because Nabakov is garbage. His books are for pedophiles.
Who's a good author, then?
Dante
Good point. But what about novels?
Tolstoy
I liked Pride and Prejudice a lot
Persuasion was good
I gotta give Sense and Sensibility another shot some time but I did finish volume one and it didn’t wow me.
Only one I've read is P&P. It read like a slog until she dropped a paragraph about destiny out of nowhere
Austen BRUTALLY filters midwits. People who think Austen is one of the greatest novelists in the English language either have postgrad qualifications in literature, or they’re a braindead roastie, there is almost zero middle ground between those two extremes.
I’ve read Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Persuasion and enjoyed all three. What said is very accurate. Austen was one of the first novelists to use free indirect discourse in her narration, and her novels are plotted very tightly and intelligently. She’s an excellent narrator with great comic timing who constantly pokes fun at the tropes of other schmaltzy sentimental novels of her era.
Can you guys give an example of something funny or a passage where she
>pokes fun at the tropes of other schmaltzy sentimental novels of her era
The guy who wrote the Aubrey-Maturin series liked her a lot so she must be at least somewhat good.
What will happen to me if I read them all?
Have a good time?
why don't you read them you fricking homosexual
I don't know, I haven't read any of them.
>Actually good novels or overrated chick-lit?
Both
I've had a few female friends and co-workers say that I remind them of Mr. Darcy, but I'm not sure what they mean by that since I haven't read Pride and Prejudice yet. It's not bad, at least, right?
are you filthy fricking rich but also very autistic and an butthole? if so they're spot on
chicks love that character
They’re saying you have autism but that you can still hit.
Emma has the worst and best males character of her novels.
Persuasion is her most mature novel.
Pride and Prejudice is too witty.
Mansfield Park is more complex because Fanny can be many things and no one agrees on what she is.
Northanger Abbey is my favorite because I'm into gothic fiction.
Sense and Sensibility is meh.
Her shorter fiction is pretty good.
What do you think? We had to read this slop in high school and even as a 14 year old all I could think was
>this is just a soap opera with slightly more fancy prose
There's nothing to them.
If these were written by men no one would've given a shit today. There are scores of male authors of her caliber who are completely forgotten because they are overshadowed by actually good male authors who had things to say about the human condition. Not just glorified love triangles.
please go sniff your farts somewhere else. there's probably several neitzche and schoppenfart threads up right now, just go to one of those.
How do these hold up compared to Bronte novels? I really love Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Villette, etc.
has no one here read Lady Susan?
Northanger Abbey is really funny.
this. Jane Austen's humor is solid.
They are good, but they are also "chick-lit." That doesn't mean there's nothing to be gained by a man from it.