Book # 17 - Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Let me start my saying that Pride and Prejudice is Lucinda's all time favorite book... and since she wants to see Pride and Prejudice and Zombies this week I figured now would be a good time to re-read the book. I've probably absorbed a good bit of knowledge about the book through osmosis from my wife so the whole book felt pretty familiar while I was reading it (Examples of how that osmosis occurred.... viewing the film version, vising the Jane Austen center in Bath, seeing films like Austenland, playing the P&P board game, etc). It was also interesting seeing how I thought of the book now versus what I thought about it as a teenager when I first read it. As a kid I wasn't really into it, but now I see that it is quite funny and there were several passages that made me laugh. So I can see how it is Lucinda's favorite book... Basically it is just an old-timey romantic comedy in which the boy and girl meet... don't like each other at first... and eventually realize they love each other... Pretty much the synopsis of every Hallmark or Lifetime movie. I'll have to give it an A.