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This is one of the funniest books I've ever read.
Did anyone else enjoy it?

>> No.5335858

i was constantly laughing at how bad it was

>> No.5335860

>>5335858
Oh, ok.

>> No.5335867

>>5335858
stop

>> No.5335868

It's one of the dullest books I've ever read.

You have to be a girl to find it funny, right?

>> No.5335896
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5335896

"Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
-Mark Twain

>> No.5335900

>>5335896
twain is a hack

>> No.5335904

>>5335896
>Every time I read
Why does he keep reading it?

>> No.5335913

>>5335904
To get in shin-bone hitting mood.

>> No.5335978

>>5335856
I despise Austen with a force. She might have had the ability to somewhat believably describe the main struggles (sorry: "struggles") of upper middle class life in her time. But why does this excuse her absolutely disgusting prose?

>> No.5336005

>>5335978
>

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>>5335856
I enjoyed it, but I wouldn't say it was all that funny.
>>5335900
pic related

>> No.5336013

>>5335978
shut up summerfag

>> No.5336018

INB4 a shitstorm of bitter virgins posting 'hurr women cannot write' + related biases

>> No.5336028

>>5336018
in after faggot beta males lavishing undeserved praise on a mediocre author just because of her gender

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>>5336028
euphoric as fuck my supreme gentleman

>> No.5336068

>>5336028
>undeserved praise
>mediocre author
:^)

>> No.5336310

I just started reading Sense and Sensibility and it's hilarious, I'm glad to hear she keeps up the funny.

>> No.5336318

>It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

What is this bullshit? DROPPED

>> No.5336393

>>5336318
>tfw single and have, at least, a "decent" fortune
>could honestly not think of a bigger waste of time and money than a wife

Celibate master race.

>> No.5336405

Shit man, of course it's funny. It's the only Austen I've read, but it's great. Top-tier satire of Regency era

>> No.5336409

>>5336318
virgin

>> No.5336414

>>5336318
its a joke son

>> No.5336415

>>5336409
I am so glad that I am a virgin. People who have sex are disgusting.

>> No.5336425

>>5336415
virgin

>> No.5336426

I don't get Jane Austen, I don't get any sort of wit in her writting, it's all extremely dull and plain.

>> No.5336434

>>5336426
Care to explain in detail? Maybe use some examples of her writing? Would love to hear it!

>> No.5336439

>>5336434
Yeah sure hold on, I'll just go get some random parts of books I read years ago so can I better exemplify and define what I mean by "dull" and "plain" because I agree that both of those words can have a very hazy meaning.

>> No.5336448

>>5336425
He already said he was one, you're being redundant

>> No.5336450

>>5336439
Sounds good buddy, because your opinion now is unsubstantiated and useless without any analysis of her actual work.
It's fine to have an opinion but at least present it in an efficient way.

>> No.5336452

>>5336415
You forgot your trip, Thaddeus.

>> No.5336464

>>5336426
Her writing is really sarcastic

>> No.5336544

>dull ass pampered white people dealing with first world problems

oh yeah, it was a riot a minute.

>> No.5336564

If I ever have daughters I kind of want to be like Mr. Bennett at the beginning of the book.

>> No.5336568

>>5336544
everything you will ever deal with will be a first world problem

grow up

>> No.5336587

>>5336318
>what is irony
i swear most people who find it boring just can't recognize a joke without it being spelled out for you
pride and prejudice has some of the best comic characters in history

>> No.5336597

>>5336544
>an entire family in danger of homelessness if the father dies before their daughters are married
>first world problems
ok

>> No.5336600

>>5336587
You only know that it's a joke because your English teacher told you so.

>> No.5336605

>>5335856
I've just found it kind of meh. I don't really dislike anything in it but didn't really like anything either.

>> No.5336608

>>5336600
Are you fucking serious? How is that not obviously sarcasm?

>> No.5336609

>>5335856
Of course, she's one of the best writers of dialogue in history, and Mr. Bennett is one of the funniest characters.

/lit/ doesn't like her because they are in denial that a woman might have a better and subtler sense of humor than they do.

>> No.5336614

>>5336608
Whether it's obvious or not is beside the point, because I'm right.

>> No.5336620

>>5336614
No, I've never been assigned this book or talked about it in a class. It's easy to recognize sarcasm when it includes obvious hyperbole like pronouncing dubious "universal" truths. You're a moron if you need a teacher to spell that out for you.

>> No.5336695

>>5336620
It's one of the most famous uses of irony in English literature, so you almost definitely knew about it before you even read the book.

>> No.5336708

>>5336695
And it's one of the most famous uses of irony in English literature because it's obvious as shit, so whether we knew it before or not we still would have got it. What's your point?

>> No.5336727

>>5336708
My point is that you absolutely had it spelled out for you, as it is always spelled out for students studying the book.

>> No.5336734

>>5336708
stop being so easily trolled

>>5336727
stop trolling so weakly