Title: A disappointing waste of money
Review: I rushed out to buy this book, thinking it would be as wonderful as the local book reviewer declared it to be. Well. It isn't often that I fail to finish a book out of sheer boredom but this was one of those times. Not even the slyly incisive wit of the writing style could redeem it, or persuade me to keep going, following the stereotypical characters and their cliched backgrounds. I simply didn't care about any of them or feel any stimulation through their stilted engagement with the Austen novels. I put this book on a par with "A Year of Reading Proust" by Phyllis Rose - writing without passion or plot hanging off the coat-tails of true greatness. Save your money!
Is this product review negative?