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Your Occasional Butterfly Internet Negativity Collage #3: Pride and Prejudice<\/strong> I’m sorry, but I don’t get the fuss. If you like lots of drama, this is for you. This book is quite possibly the most poorly written, Girl books aren’t generally my thing. Turgid nonsense.
\nby Ellen Redbird<\/p>\n
\nWhy this book is so highly treasured by society is beyond me.
\nThe plot would have been better if it wasn’t
\n200 years old and so well worn.
\nI don’t really like stories that take place in the past.
\nIt could have been told in about 8 pages.
\nThere is barely a story to the story, just
\nmind-numbing balls and dinner parties and
\ncharacters like wispy shadows. I hate genteel poverty!
\nAll the characters did was wait around to get married and go for walks.
\nNothing happens! They just visit each other all the time.
\nNo one grows or changes.
\nIt’s old people gossiping
\nand conditioning women to like jerks.
\nA narrow, unrealistic vision of life.
\nWhat about this goes beyond a simple love story?
\nThe characterization has been used too many times since.
\nI have never witnessed so many intelligible people act so unintelligent.
\nWho uses the word “vexation” in a conversation?
\nDid they use those words in everyday conversation in 19th century England?
\nI am truly vexed as to how this novel became such a classic.<\/p>\n
\nLots of drama, and nothing interesting at all.
\nIt’s the only book in high school I couldn’t finish.
\nEating sand for lunch every day would have been
\neasier than reading every single page of this book.
\nTried to force myself to read it, but the plot
\nfelt so cringy and superficial.
\nI couldn’t get over the soap opera mentality.
\nIn the modern era, I feel like this would have been
\nan episode of As The World Turns<\/em>.
\nPretty much a shot-for-shot rip-off
\nof West Side Story<\/em>\u2014just based in the early 1800s.
\nI am sitting here eating a Tootsie Roll, a Halloween leftover,
\nand I can’t help notice the similarities between it and the novel.<\/p>\n
\ninsipid, saccharine one I have ever read in my life.
\nSo stilted and slow and sappy, it makes my teeth HURT.
\nI didn’t understand a thing they were saying.
\nThe writing style was too descriptive and led me
\nmore than once to skip over entire paragraphs.
\nTedious, shallow, uninspiring, worthless babble from beginning to end.
\nIf there’s one thing I dislike, it’s lack of description.
\nI find it virtually impossible to read a book when
\nI know nothing of what the characters look like.<\/p>\n
\nThis is a snore\u2014erotic imaginings of an untampered womb.
\nThis isn\u2019t meant as an indictment of women, but it is almost
\ncertainly enjoyed by so many women because it appeals
\nto their baser appetites such as the ego
\nand encourages some prevalent forms of wishful thinking.
\nI just don’t care about women
\nand their intense desires to get married.<\/p>\n
\nDeadly, endless.
\nI’m just glad it’s over.
\nDo not read this while operating heavy machinery.
\nDon’t read Moby Dick<\/em> either, if you know what’s good for you.
\nTo tell you the truth, I read this because I have
\nPride and Prejudice and Zombies<\/em>
\nsitting on my shelf ready to go.
\nI think the only reason this novel is even considered a treasure
\nis because it survived a large fire.<\/p>\n