I’m reading “Pride and prejudice” and I’m strangely enjoying it. I like the characters and the story, I’m really hooked with the book, but I don’t really know why it is so interesting and how Austen makes me feel interested in a book that, maybe just in the surface, is so mundane.
In the past, I also read “Sense and sensibility” for University and I also enjoyed it very much.
How do you think Austen makes this? How does she make a realistic and simple book so interesting in its story and its characters?
Why are they so interesting? in general they aren’t. They are interesting to you and that’s what matters.
I’m not going to get into a debate on the merits of Austin because there’s no point and all I want to do is touch on why some people love an item while others can hate it.
Why you find it interesting? Right now your experience, desires, knowledge base, interests and a few other factors lineup with what the book presents in it’s text therefore you find it appealing.
If they do not line up then you do not find it appealing.
Variations between the general factors and the “bits of you” will cause different levels of enjoyment in different individuals. Sometimes say a shift in your knowledge base will wreck something you previously enjoyed.
As your life changes things become more and less appealing that’s life.
Basically right now you are in the same headspace where the author was when she was writing so you connect to it so enjoy it.
I agree. I had to make a couple stabs at Jane Eyre before it exploded as genius in my mind…when I became an introspective teenager…before that it seemed difficult to read.