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On January 31 2010 10:24 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:
Pride and Prejudice is the one where the girl doesn't like the guy until she sees how rich he is right? There are certainly a lot of women like that. And that part is not satirical at all. Even if you think it is a bad book (art-wise) it certainly offers a window into the average female psyche. Twilight does the same thing. It's probably much worse artistically than Pride and Prejudice but also much more up to date.
I guess you haven't read the book.
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When reading fiction, I prefer very modern, well structured writers, so that I can learn to read faster. Reading ancient Shakespear or something for the turn of the 19th century isn't exactly going to boost your reading ability, youll just lumber through it.
Shakespeare does boost your reading ability, although it requires a certain amount of literary maturity to appreciate it. By saying so I make no slander against anyone in particular, but anyone who thinks they've read Shakespeare to the point of having exhausted its nuances is wrong. For even the most brilliant readers, Shakespeare is nearly infinite, by which I mean when reading him, we are not limited by his work, but by our interpretive capacities. He is the one author who can be read again and again, who never ceases expanding, so long as we ourselves expand.
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Would anyone agree that the time spent attempting to understand a woman would be better off spent trying to understand oneself, as a man, instead?
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I though the plot and characters were fairly boring, but I enjoyed the writing style enough that it was enjoyable.
I don't tend to actually read books for anything other than shallow enjoyment lol.
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On January 31 2010 11:15 mykyoyo wrote:
Would anyone agree that the time spent attempting to understand a woman would be better off spent trying to understand oneself, as a man, instead?
hm. by reading Pride and Prejudice it helps you look at yourself too though, through a womans point of view.
I would recommend every guy should read Pride and Prejudice at least once at some point. I did 4 years ago and didn't regret it one bit. 
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On January 31 2010 11:15 mykyoyo wrote:
Would anyone agree that the time spent attempting to understand a woman would be better off spent trying to understand oneself, as a man, instead?
I think we should probably stop pigeon holing men and women into two separate categories that can be understood by reading Fahrenheit 451 or P&P.
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I'm reading this book right now again for like the 10th time. It's one of my favorite books (even though its girly). I like the style of her writing actually. Also the story is good lol -_-
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and the person with the quizzical brow?
thats his good friend, mr. darcy
he looks miserable, poor soul
miserable he may be, but poor he is not
tell me
10,000 a year and he owns half of derbyshire
the miserable half?
is it wrong ive played alli-pap.xvid.cd1.avi 127 times?
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Jane Austen is amazing; the way she describes the actions makes you imagine what she says very clearly without the need of her describing her actual scenery.
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On January 31 2010 07:45 Nitrogen wrote:
no
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On January 31 2010 12:04 uberMatt wrote:
and the person with the quizzical brow?
thats his good friend, mr. darcy
he looks miserable, poor soul
miserable he may be, but poor he is not
tell me
10,000 a year and he owns half of derbyshire
the miserable half?
is it wrong ive played alli-pap.xvid.cd1.avi 127 times?
You can't help but love Austen's writing.
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On January 18 1909 13:10 Mark Twain wrote:
To me his prose is unreadable -- like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.
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Girls are guided by feelings, not rational thinking as you may understand in "thinking".
If you have no empathy then you won't understand that, ever.
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Korea (South)17174 Posts
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Hahahaha
Thanks all for the entertaining replies.
I'm going to just read it.
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From what my girlfriend tells me she likes it because it's like reading a fantasy novel. Guys, yes this is a stereotype, will read medieval tales of magic and dragons because they want to be those characters. My girlfriend likes the ideas, in a fantasy sense, in Pride and Prejudice. She realizes it's not realistic, but it doesn't need to be realistic to be entertaining.
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United States4796 Posts
If you really want to understand how girls think...talk to them. It's not impossible. It's not always rational, but neither are guys.
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On January 31 2010 07:44 rinoh wrote:
I dropped to part time student status and I got lots and lots of free time. One of my friends tells me to read Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. She says that I will understand exactly how girls think after reading this book.
Is this true?
She lies, this is impossible.
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On January 31 2010 19:07 Rekrul wrote:ok?
Wow! You've gained a lot of weight :\
Anyway, good book. I liked it almost as much as... my third least favorite book of all time. Much better than Jane Eyre though... 
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On January 31 2010 07:47 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
Mark Twain once said "The only thing more useless than a library with no books, is a library filled with books by Jane Austen."
he was right.
lmao that's great
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