[ SECRET POST #6050 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6050 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I found Pride and Prejudice extremely boring and I don’t get the hype. Want to be clear that it's not because I have an issue with writing from that era or genre, I think Jane Eyre is reasonably entertaining, and there are plenty of other 1800s books that I love. This one in particular was just mind-numbingly dull for me, and I don't understand why people are so into it.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Jane Eyre is a totally different era of writing. They were published thirty years apart, and Austen started PP twenty years before that. The social contexts are very different, English society went through a massive shift between those two dates. If you are going into the latter thinking it was rooted in the same social mores as the former then of course you were not going to get it.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

While I don't disagree with the first part of your response I really wish people wouldn't say 'you just didn't get it' every time someone says they dislike something.

It's okay to 'get' something and still not like it. No one is required to like everything. It's also okay not like something even if (because) you didn't get it. Not 'getting' something isn't the moral failing I seem to see a lot of people lose their minds over lol.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it's a mystery to me why so many people in fandom seem to love Pride and Prejudice. I do not see the appeal, and never have.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

As a P&P lover, I feel this way about Wuthering Heights tbh lol. Like, I fully get why people wouldn't like P&P but I cannot for the life of me get why people would LIKE WH.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

*laughs* See, and Wuthering Heights absolutely clicked for me. It's been a long time since I read it, though, so I'm not sure I could explain why to someone who doesn't know me and just felt ... nothing.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Haha, I have to wonder if it's a 'which did you read first' type thing, because to me they're so wildly different that if the first one you read clicks with you, the other one probably won't?

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I did come across Wuthering Heights when I was pretty young, but I'd been enduring everything I came across that had romance in it, before. And WH made sense in a way that nothing else had.

"Wildly different" is right, though!

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[meadowphoenix]

if you like modern historical romance novels it makes sense. jane eyre is a little more gothic and has a byronic hero, and for those reasons has more adventurous and passionate bits.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Just so you know, saying you don't understand why you don't like P&P when you like Jane Eyre is kind of like saying you don't know why you don't like the first Harry Potter book when you enjoyed The Hobbit. This is a terrible allegory for a few reasons. But the point is that even though the two pairs of books might ostensibly be in the same 'genre', individually they were written at different times, draw on completely different subgenres, and overall were written with very different narrative aims in mind. So no wonder liking one doesn't mean you like the other!