2/15/15 Pride And Prejudice Book 1?

    I finished reading Pride and Prejudice last week.  This is my attempt to open myself up to reading for fun.  I am not sure this qualifies as a fun read.  The characters seemed rather self important and one dimensional.  I failed to see the brilliance or even the verbal sparring mentioned on the back jacket of the book.  Book was twice as long because the Bennet girls are twits.  Jane Austen (author) is considered equal to her contemporaries, book was released in 1813, but I have read much better.

    I had to force myself to finish reading the book.  Three fourths in I was hoping it would start wrapping up story points, to figure out where it was going.  The slutty younger sister (Lydia) commandeered the story of Elizabeth Bennet (story is told through her) and by far gave this story its most interesting details.  Their mom was a piece of work, only interested in suitors that had money or means to raise the family's status.  That is a shitty human being.

    Mr. Bennet is almost a cool interesting person until they start talking about his foolishness and not having enough money to do right by Lydia, who in reality goes off to live a miserable life with a half-ass who does not believe he is suited for work, but I guess he's good looking and that is enough for some people.

    The other sister Jane gets sick and that lasts a long time where she falls ill at the neighbors and they tend to her for days and days.  These are freaking country girls, why are they soo feeble?  They should be tough and ready for whatever the day brings.

    She is interested in Mr. Bingley and he appears interested.  He has the means to rent a farmhouse/estate close to the Bennet family.  He has a friend who appears stuck up, in the beginning can't be bothered by the girls, even for a dance.  Of course he falls for Elizabeth, eventually.  But first, he manages to crush Jane's goood nature by convicing Mr. Bingley that Jane is ill suited for him as a wife.  Without rhyme or reason, they leave the property close to the girls and head back to the big city of London.  The guys would have gotten away except for a plot twist.  Eliza goes on vacation with her aunt and uncle and ends up at Mr. Darcy's where she quickly starts fantasizing that that estate could be hers.  To me, this is when Elizabeth finally starts falling for Mr. Darcy (shallow bitch got interested when she saw the expensive estate).
    At this point, a letter is written by Mr. Darcy that explains a couple things (frankly he could've drawn a picture of a dog), Eliza wants the estate and the riches.  They go round and round for another 60 pages and they live happily ever after.  There was nothing satisfying about watching 3 of 5 spoiled girls get courted and saved by men of means.  But maybe that's how it was back in the day.