Showing posts with label Pride and Prejudice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pride and Prejudice. Show all posts

Friday, April 1, 2016

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen



Author: Jane Austen
Genre:  Romance, Historical Fiction
Target Audience:  From Adults to young readers
Reading Experience:  7.5/10
Story: 7.5/10
Writing: 6/10
My Verdict: 7/10


Okay, so you'll read a LOT of contradictions here, in this review.  So bear with me 'till the end.  I'm not really sure where I stand with this book, but I'll let you decide.

So, Pride and Prejudice.  We've all heard it.  Many of you had to read it in school or for a course in college.  It was, simply put, an obligation to do so.  Since English literature is not in Puerto Rico's curriculum (we had other excruciatingly boring books to read), I wasn't "obligated" to read this book.  English literature was pretty much non-existent in Puerto Rico.  We were too busy reading the same novel over and over; one was about an epileptic girl in a very poor village, another was a collection of poems from a woman that was depressed practically her whole life.  An occasional "decent" book made it to our hands, but the rest was excruciating, a real challenge.