Sense and Sensibility

I read this simply because I'd just finished [b:Persuasion 2156 Persuasion Jane Austen https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1385172413s/2156.jpg 2534720] and this had been sitting on my Kindle for several years without being touched. I've not read or seen an adaption of it before, and I can see I didn't miss out on much. It is obviously Austen's first published work. The minutiae of the social life of teenage girls in the late 18th and early 19th Century is fascinating, but is pretty much the only redeeming feature of this book which lacks depth, going on for far too long and saying not much. While Marianne, the youngest of the two Dashwood sisters, gains sense to moderate her sensibility (after heartbreak), the main character Elinor doesn't appear to gain any sensibility to temper her sense.It wasn't enough to hold my attention for long, until I reached the point where I decided I may as well just get it over with, but it also didn't suck enough to abandon it completely. Disappointing overall but leaves me with only one Austen unread, so I can tick that off the list of things to do before I die.