C has wanted to watch the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice with me for a while. In preparation, I'm gonna read the actual book. In the meantime, I've decided I'm going to have an ongoing review of what I've read thus far.
The first thing that really frustrates me is that I don't know who's talking half the time. There are five Miss Bennets and a Mrs. Bennet, so I never know to which Bennet one is ever referring. It doesn't help that I don't know people's full names. So, when a character refers to someone else by her first name, sometimes I'm not so sure who it is. Also, for a few pages, I thought "Lizzy" and "Eliza" were two different people. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure that they are the same person right now.
To be fair, this isn't a Jane Austen thing. This happened when I was reading The Brothers Karamazov. With all the different Russian nicknames, I never knew who was who.
Second, I'm only ten chapters in, and I'm already annoyed by the women in this book. All they do is gossip and talk about which men they want to marry or which men they should marry or when they want to marry. If this goes on for another 300 pages, I might throw this book off a bridge.
Finally, Darcy is very Colin Firth-y. Or is Colin Firth very Darcy-y?
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