It took me a while to get into this book. I told myself if I read to page 100 and didn't want to continue, I wouldn't.
Well, I decided to keep reading, despite my doubts. I had trouble relating to Fanny; she is so passive--she is hardly living her own life. But she is also described as the most moral person, whose judgment is always proper and correct. That can get tedious.
Then there is the difficulty of reading early 19th Century work--some words mean something different than their modern counterparts and some spellings are different. Of course, the style is also different from that of modern novels.
Austen is such a good writer, that I wanted more. That's why I finished the book (even if I did skim some passages.)
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