Everyone knows the story of Pride and Prejudice (except my dad, he lived for years thinking that it was a study of pride and prejudice, ha ha), and now it's time to hear it from Mr. Darcy's view point. We travel through his journal starting with Georgiana's near miss with Mr. Wickham and going through Mr. Darcy's ups and downs concerning Miss Elizabeth Bennett.
The bad: hmmm, nada
The good: It's Pride and Prejudice... So true love! There is also of course both Mr. Darcy and Lizzy's realizations that they have been prideful and prejudiced.
My view: Whenever I go into B&N I'm always confronted by a multitude of books using a Pride and Prejudice theme to help them sell, and to be honest, a lot of those books look pretty scary and leave me thinking What have you done to Mr. Darcy and Lizzy? Thankfully Mr. Darcy's Diary preserves the feelings and integrity of the original story (and if anyone should know, it would be me, yes, I've done a report on Jane Austen, yes, I've seen the 5 hour movie version more than three times, yes, I have read Pride and Prejudice, and yes, I own two copies of the book and two different movie versions). Also, this book has balanced the characters really well, making both Mr. Darcy and Lizzy imperfect but lovable.
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I Love Pride and Prejudice and have seen the really, really, really long version of the movie a lot. I saw this book and I was kind of scared to read it (I haven't) as you said.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'll read it now.