Writing - Good & Bad - Edward Cullen?

[justcarol67]

zanooda:
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> > I'm beginning Jane Austen at the moment, because I was always a little embarrassed that I haven't read any of her books. Only I don't know where to start - "Pride and Prejudice", maybe?
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> Alla:
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> Hey at least you know who Jane Austen is, I will never forget how some of my friends whom I made here in New York had no idea. Oy.
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> Yes, I highly recommend starting with Pride and Prejudice :-)

Carol responds:
I'd recommend starting with P&P, too, with one caveat--it's the best of the Austen books, and you might find the others disappointing. "Emma" is also good, if you can get past Emma's manipulativeness and egotism, and so is "sense and Sensibility," which might be better to start with because if you like it, you'll probably like P&P even better. The other three ("Mansfield Park," Persuasion," and "Northanger Abbey" are, IMO, largely forgettable. The best that can be said of "Northanger Abbey" (essentially a spoof of Gothic novels but not really funny) is that it's short.

Just my view. Alla and others may disagree.

Carol, who thinks that everyone should read "Pride and Prejudice," which is a classic and rightly so