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Romcom. From page 1 we pretty much know where this is going to end up but that doesn't make the journey any less enjoyable.
This was the first Jane Austen I have ever read and I really enjoyed it! While I was reading it for a literature course, I will be reading more of her work!
Finally finished reading this book. I had started it and put it down because of the long conversations. I had read it before though and forgot all the fun stuff in it. I'm glad I read it again with adult eyes.
Ok I see why it's a classic and has so many adaptations. It was fun and ridiculous. Still, I hope that's not what life was really like in that timeperiod, because people being fixated on the smallest thing and gossiping about it forever sounds like hell.
In other words... good entertainment, but hopefully no reflection of real life.
One sentence synopsis... Precocious young Emma Woodhouse's delusions of her own match-making abilities lead to a series of comic, romantic misadventures. .
Read it if you like... rom-com books like “To All The Boys I've Loved Before” or modern reimagining like “Clueless”. .
Dream casting... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qsOwj0PR5Sk
I enjoy Jane Austen because her books are lighthearted yet compelling. Emma falls into that category but didn't soar as high as Pride and Prejudice as far as plot and characters go. It's a long read considering not all that much happens and Emma is not the most likeable character.
I loved every single world in the book ❤️ but it had alot of description that made it tooo long
Austen's book has excellent character development. The characters are well flushed out you love and hat them. You learn their motivations and understand them by the end. Like many books written in this time it does seem unnecessarily long.
Englantilaisen hyvin toimeentulevan keskiluokan elämää 16 mailin päässä Lontoosta sijaitsevassa Highburyssä kuvaa Emma pyörii päähenkilönsä Emma Woodhousen ympärillä. Varakkaan kartanonomistajan nuorempi tytär ei aio koskaan mennä naimisiin – eikä voisikaan, sillä kuka silloin huolehtisi isästä – mutta nauttii suuresti kehitellessään naimakauppoja lähipiirissään.
Kotiopettajattarelleen neiti Taylorille, esimerkiksi, hän löysi puolisoksi oivallisen herra Westonin, jonka ei muka enää pitänyt mennä naimisiin jäätyään leskeksi. Kaikki Emman suunnitelmat eivät kuitenkaan onnistu yhtä hyvin, joten ennen kuin kirja on lopussa, luvassa on sydänsuruja, sekaannuksia ja kenties rakkautta myös Emmalle itselleen.
Emmahan on suorastaan vallankumouksellinen romaani, aikansa kokeellista kirjallisuutta, jossa kertojanääni lankeaa päähenkilön harhaisiin näkemyksiin todellisuudesta. Tämä vapaa epäsuora esitys oli Austenin aikaan aivan uutta – nythän se on aivan tavanomainen kerrontatapa. John Mullanin How Jane Austen's Emma changed the face of fiction on kiinnostava esitys aiheesta.
Koska olin nauttinut Kersti Juvan Ylpeydestä ja ennakkoluulosta kovasti, etukäteen arvelutti aika lailla Aune Brotheruksen 70 vuotta vanha käännös. Enimmäkseen se ei haitannut, mutta jotkut vanhentuneet sanavalinnat pistivät kyllä silmään – “kääsit” ja “hyötymansikat”, se että backgammonin sijasta pelattiin “lautaa” – mutta enimmäkseen teksti oli vallan luettavaa. Saisi tämän silti suomentaa uudestaan. Lisäksi ärsytti, että vaikka lukemani painos oli aivan tuore – elokuvakannella, tietysti – suomennosten listalta puuttuivat Juvan uudet suomennokset. Ovathan ne väärän kustantamon julkaisuja, mutta silti, melkoista pikkumaisuutta jättää ne listaamatta.
Tämän tuoreimman elokuvasovituksen katsoin ensin, mikä osaltaan väritti lukukokemusta, mutta ei liiemmin haitannut. Elokuvahan oli, näin kirjan luettuani, aivan kelpo sovitus, vaikka kirja lopulta pidemmän korren vetikin.
It's among Jane's longest novels, and I confess I felt the wordcount. I found most of it delightful, but sometimes a fun element (silly hypochondria, planning a ball) gets too repetitive or drawn out, and it loses momentum. This is entertaining and it's interesting to have an Austen hero who's rich and socially dominant - this is well worth reading! I just don't think it's in my “read every 1-2 years” pile.
Amazing book (which should come as surprise to no one)! I can see why the director of the movie altered a small detail at the end though. I'm not mad at it and I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out on screen.
Listened to the audiobook, and so feel I have been immersed in an English village for weeks. Loved it, though. On to Persuasion.
A genuine surprise, but I stan Mr Knightly now.
I need to go ahead and read the rest of Jane Austen's novels, because so far I've enjoyed them all!!
just watch clueless and read northanger abbey.
i'm kidding, emma's a fun read too, and lots more goes on in it than the other two works. however, upon second read as an adult, i didn't enjoy this as much as i did when i was younger and had read this the first time. it wasn't disappointing per se, but i certainly felt differently towards each character this time around than i had at first. however, this interfered only slightly with my enjoyment of the book.
reading this with cynical goggles might help. also, if you like reading books where you hate literally every character, this becomes more entertaining.
I must say how much I love Jane Austen's writing, and how well she develops her characters! I thoroughly enjoyed this, though I will admit it took me a while to get into. However, when I did get into it I got Very into it!
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It's official: I'm a Jane Austen fan.
I didn't plan it. I tried to avoid it, honestly. I read P&P and S&S long ago, in a whirl of trying to knock off a couple of must-reads, without knowing what all the JA fuss was about. This month, I was simply going to read Persuasion with my book club. It would accomplish two goals at once by also crossing it off my Classics Club list.
But somehow I ended up requesting a huge stack of Jane Austen reference materials from the library along with an annotated Persuasion, and I was off. Reading Jane. Watching Jane movies. Browsing through Jane reference books. Writing about Jane.
Before I knew it, I was hooked. I joined our library branch manager in oozing the wonderfulness of Jane to the book club. I read Persuasion and moved to Northanger Abbey and then Emma and, before I even finished Emma, I'm reading Mansfield Park.
Emma is an absolute delight of a character. Interfering, but with the best of intentions. A bit full of herself, but also easily humbled by a friend's sharp words. Certain that she had no desire to marry, but then abruptly and completely certain of her love for an unexpected person.
I've loved all these Jane Austen characters so much that I feel like I've been these places in England and befriended them at various parties and dinners and walks and balls.
I'm loving Austen in August.
Everything that Miss Bates said should have been cut down by 3/4. I understand that her character is irritatingly longwinded, and to show is better writing than to tell, but come on! By the end I was only reading a sentence or two of Miss Bates's page-long-or-more monologues, and then moving on; her words contained no useful content, and were merely there to demonstrate the high level of kindness and tolerance of Jane Fairfax et al.
For that matter, most of Emma's internal monologues could have been trimmed quite a bit too and not suffered for it.
I found the sudden rift between Emma and Harriet, after Harriet tells Emma that she has a thing for Mr. Knightley, a little odd. Okay, Emma is appalled at the idea of those two getting married because Harriet is in a lower caste, and because Emma is discovering she herself loves Knightley. But they were very good friends, spending every day together, and now after that single talk they are both done with each other? And Emma actually putting it in writing that they shouldn't hang out anymore?That type of behavior might fit with girls of 13 or 14, but not grown women. I thought it was a little slapdash.
I liked “Pride and Prejudice” quite a bit, and had expected to like “Emma” just as much, but the former had much tighter (better) writing. The flowery language of the time was really let loose in “Emma” and I think it suffers because of it. This is more a 2.5 star book, but skipping/skimming over vast chunks of monologues improves the flow of the story and nudges this up to 3 stars.
3.5/5 I do love Jane Austen, but I always forget how slow her books can read. This was my second read through of Emma and I while I did enjoy it more this time, I'm afraid she is just not my favorite Austen heroine. Unfortunately there are just some things that date Emma in a ways that doesn't seem to date Pride and Prejudice.
Emma comes across as more rude and spoiled and while she is able to admit her faults, her attitude towards Harriet really never comes across as little more than condescending for most of the book.
I much prefer modern adaptions such as Clueless but more so in the YouTube series Emma Approved. I feel like Emma fits better in a more modern setting and not in 1700's England.
Emma has to be my favorite Austen protagonist yet, but overall the book wasn't as good as good old Pride & Prejudice. I really loved Emma and how imperfect she was, and hers and Knightley's relationship is my favorite by far. The story itself seemed to move slowly though, and it felt pretty uneventful the whole way through.
First thing, I didn't finished it but ,second thing, I like it. I really love the characters but it was taking me too long to read it, I didn't wanted to continue readi g when I saw it. But I repeat it's not bad, I liked it when I read but not enough to get enganched to the book
January 2015: I finally did it!! Emma does become so good about halfway through. I think I was working on the first half for about 3 weeks, but the last half I read in 3 days. This is my first Jane Austen book I've read by choice... I think that's a lot of the reason that it took me so long to get into. I find that when I read classic authors, they each have such a unique language and style that it does take some time to get used to. So hopefully my next Jane Austen book won't take so long to get into. Or maybe they just drag at the beginning. We will see. Either way, they story in Emma is lovely. I mean we've all heard of Mr. Knightley, but I do truly love him in this story.
Previous: I love Jane Austen's writing style. This is the first Jane Austen novel that I read by choice and not in an english comp class... and that wasn't until I was about 21 (don't judge me). I really like Emma. She's a strong female character. I always love those type. But there's a part where the book just gets slow. I've started reading it twice and never finished. I will not give up though. I will try again so I can give a real review.