Anonymous #2 1w

Oh my god finally someone who felt the same. I have insane respect for Jane as a lit figure but I cannot get into her writing style. So many times in Persuasion I was like okay we are recapping a conversation that you could have written out and showed us instead… I did not like it. And I have tried to read Pride and Prejudice so many times and just can’t get into it. I wish I liked Austen 😭

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Anonymous #4 1w

the thing that got me about persuasion was that about 130 of the book's pages could have been cut out if the book's two leads had just fucking talked to each other

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Anonymous #2 1w

Not a valid criticism, given how much actually happens in that book. Try again !

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Anonymous #5 1w

Something that irks me about this generation of booktok-adjacent readers is their inability to read text as an art-form rather than a vehicle for "then this happened, and then this happened, and then the end!" Like, why on EARTH would Austen cut 130 pages of beautiful prose (that 100% serves the story intentionally at every turn, btw).

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Anonymous #5 1w

not a booktok reader, my favorite authors are heller and pynchon. the "art" of austen's melodrama is completely and utterly lost on me, and the "beautiful prose" was just kinda average imo. also, even if text is an art form, the plot still has to matter in order to get that art across, and i never felt like i was supposed to care about anything that was happening in the book.

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Anonymous #2 1w

sorry "even if" implies that it's not, when it very much is, that's poor phrasing on my part, should be "even though"

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Anonymous #2 1w

They way I have 5 blocked and based on your response I know exactly why

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Anonymous #4 1w

LMAO

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Anonymous #2 1w

And the plot did matter 🤨 Again, I’m suggesting you try reading again.

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Anonymous #5 1w

if it mattered then why didn't i care about any of it

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Anonymous #2 1w

Sounds like it might be boiling down to skill issue here idk

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