carriedoodledoo's reviews
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For a fluff-brain like myself, I was actually surprised to find myself enjoying this book! It's intelligent without being too wordy/highbrow, and easy to read and understand without being dumbed-down. :)

A lovely book for those who want to get the gist of Shakespeare (and/or children). Lovely prose. Good bedtime story book, although you may have to explain some words. :)

Voices perfectly my frustration with the beaurocracy. Clearly, none of those people ever tried to be an entreprenuer or a small farm operator.

Typical Wodehouse: average young man knocking about, beautiful girl, extraordinary circumstances, inconceivable coincidences, loads of laughs, and of course, millions of dollars laying about for someone to inherit or steal or claim. The best part of Wodehouse is he never asks you to suspend your disbelief-- he just charges in and tells the story. Its like the one guy we all know who tells the best stories. You know they aren't true, you never believe them for a second, but boy are they fun!

So good! Definitely for an adult audience though. Some swearing, adult topics (of course).

This should be required reading for all young adults. BEFORE you think you want babies, BEFORE you start going googly eyed...

Read this after watching the movie. Right in there with Asterix and Globi.

My Swiss "tante" had a bookshelf of these in my cousins' room. Couldn't read much German/Swiss, but it was fun!

HOORAY for being the only format of Sense and Sensibility I could get through. UGH. Not a single movie, not the Sea Monster version, not the original, could keep my attention or keep me from screaming in frustration.

Marianne, you twit! okay, so you don't have to marry Colonel Branson but you could at least not dissolve into crying jags, make public scenes, throw hissy fits, and make a general nuisance of yourself.

Almost everyone in the entire book was insufferable. I know that a very Jane Austen thing to do is to take a theme and hammer it to death, like with Pride and Prejudice, but it just didn't work here. It insults sensitive people and bores the sensible. Yes, we all know a "Marianne" character...but geez this thing was painful.

Also some of my favorite "hot" actors are older than Colonel Brandon, but then Colonel Brandon didn't probably have moisturizer.

Okay so. I enjoyed this as a manga, mostly because the format is so fitted to crazy drama stories and somehow that made it more palatable. (really Willoughby...really? you smarm, then you stink, then you really are a putrid lump of gross, then you try to redeem yourself for a bittersweet ending but just suck some more).

Probably never going to bother reading this in the book form. I like everything else of Jane Austen's, but I draw the line at this.

Short poems, and it's a short little book. It's excellent though, a really great job translating from Japanese. It's an introduction to a good art form that has the benefit of being accessible for those without an ear for rhyming.