Austenland
Ratings28
Average rating3.3
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Ratings28
Average rating3.3
Jane Hayes's adoration of all things Jane Austen is complicating her love life. Determined to be the heroine of her own story, Jane spends her life savings on a trip to Austenland, an eccentric Austen-inspired resort, where she meets two very different gentlemen, but has a difficult time determining where fantasy ends and real life, and maybe even love, begins.
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2 primary booksAustenland is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2007 with contributions by Shannon Hale.
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yeah shut up I needed to pad out my reading challenge
also the movie is better
Similar, but not as appealing to me as Me and Mr. Darcy, although Hale seems to be marketed as a more literary author. Still worth a read if you like the Jane Austen paraliterature.
I knew this would be fluff, but man... (I'll still read the second one though.) I see why they made a movie of this - it's like it was written hoping it would be a movie. That ending especially.
A few complaints about Jane. 1- she's not a fan of Jane Austen, not really. She obviously feels like Austen is a guilty pleasure. Hiding dvds? Really? 2- she doesn't know Jennifer Ehle's name? Again, I think it's all a guilty pleasure, and that she views the 1995 P&P especially as a guilty pleasure. She probably only watches the lake scene... 3- What's wrong with Northanger Abbey? 4- she knows what a pelisse is but not a fichu?
Hopefully the follow up is a bit better.
DNF at 22%. Frankly, I enjoyed the movie more. The protagonist is an Austen fangirl who seems to reinforce all the worst stereotypes of being an Austen fangirl: obsessive, and ashamed of liking Austen. Miss Charming was insufferable, and overall I just found it boring.
