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?
The OP says they are strangely enjoying it, not that it’s strange to enjoy it. Meaning their level of enjoyment is unusual. I would have said “uniquely” or “peculiarly” instead of “strangely” but I get what they mean. Austen is absorbing in a way that only a masterpiece is. This is a common opinion, as you say, millions of readers agree. It’s fine to ask what it is about her books that make them that way.