Oh, my!! What untold delights you have in store!!! 8-D I almost envy you. ;-P
If you're going to start a Jane Austen, the Sense & Sensibility would not be the novel I would recommend if it's your first JA book. It's hard for some people, usually because of Marianne. Some readers who find her exasperating. Although if you really liked the movie(s) (have you seen the Kate Winslet one??) and identified with her, then you might like it a lot more. :-)
If you don't want to try P&P or S&S I would suggest Emma; and there just happens to be a Republic of Pemberley Group Read going on right now. I've linked the GR board for you HERE (http://www.pemberley.com/bin/library/groupread.cgi). you would be reading along with countless others (including myself!) and I don't know if you've ever heard of RoP, but there are some incredibly knowledgeable people there, who are quite friendly and helpful if you have any questions, or just would like to know more about a particular Austen-related subject.
Emma is my favourite out of all 6 of JA's novels, and it's been called a "mystery without a murder". ;-) You haven't seen either of the movies by any chance, have you? (I hope not, because then the plot will not have been spoiled for you!)
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Date: 2008-04-09 01:32 am (UTC)If you're going to start a Jane Austen, the Sense & Sensibility would not be the novel I would recommend if it's your first JA book. It's hard for some people, usually because of Marianne. Some readers who find her exasperating. Although if you really liked the movie(s) (have you seen the Kate Winslet one??) and identified with her, then you might like it a lot more. :-)
If you don't want to try P&P or S&S I would suggest Emma; and there just happens to be a Republic of Pemberley Group Read going on right now. I've linked the GR board for you HERE (http://www.pemberley.com/bin/library/groupread.cgi). you would be reading along with countless others (including myself!) and I don't know if you've ever heard of RoP, but there are some incredibly knowledgeable people there, who are quite friendly and helpful if you have any questions, or just would like to know more about a particular Austen-related subject.
Emma is my favourite out of all 6 of JA's novels, and it's been called a "mystery without a murder". ;-) You haven't seen either of the movies by any chance, have you? (I hope not, because then the plot will not have been spoiled for you!)
Sorry this has gotten rather long. ;-P