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Just dropping back in here to say that today I've finished the audiobook of Pride and Prejudice linked to in this thread so I'd have no reason not to read Mr. DeRego's story, should he write it.

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Just dropping back in here to say that today I've finished the audiobook of Pride and Prejudice linked to in this thread so I'd have no reason not to read Mr. DeRego's story, should he write it.

it's almost done :)

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I find the early 19th century period kinda' boring, as a setting. I prefer going back another 200 or 300 years, or forward to the later Victorian era.

I was forced to read [Pride and Prejudice] for school, and I am not one to cheat and use spark notes or cliff notes.
Me too. I had read it half-way through, and then one day I realised that we were going to have a test on it that day, so I skimmed the rest of it on the half-hour bus ride to school.

I passed.

"Moby Dick", on the other hand, I read for fun when I was an adult. Some folks seem to hate that book.

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"Moby Dick", on the other hand, I read for fun when I was an adult. Some folks seem to hate that book.

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"Moby Dick", on the other hand, I read for fun when I was an adult. Some folks seem to hate that book.

*raises hand*

I maintain that Billy Budd is the longest short novel I've ever read. 

About Pride and Prejudice, I wonder if it's one of those things that if you reread just on your own, you might dig a little more?  That's how it worked for me at least.  It started after watching some of the Jane Austen movie adaptations and thinking, wow, that has some surprisingly sharp wit.  And then I found the books were even better.


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"Moby Dick", on the other hand, I read for fun when I was an adult. Some folks seem to hate that book.

*raises hand*

I maintain that Billy Budd is the longest short novel I've ever read. 

About Pride and Prejudice, I wonder if it's one of those things that if you reread just on your own, you might dig a little more?  That's how it worked for me at least.  It started after watching some of the Jane Austen movie adaptations and thinking, wow, that has some surprisingly sharp wit.  And then I found the books were even better.

That was sort of what happened with Me. My wife has read that book at least a bajillion-million times and watched every possible adaptation of it. I watched the first couple of hours of the BBC version, but had to take a business to Kansas and she packed the book in my suitcase. I read the whole book in about 4 hours and loved it.

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