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Title: Miserable Experience
Review: I've been working on reading all of Ms. Austen's oeuvre, and all I have left is Persuasion. Reading Northanger Abbey was a miserable experience. The heroine is so insipid, and I could care less about the parody of the gothic novel. I'm reading Austen for her character-building abilities, not for her making fun of old novels I haven't read.The other characters were abominable too--Mr. and Ms. Thorpe, the Allens, the whole lot of them, Catherine as a child. And I thought for so long that the widower General was hitting on Catherine himself.I even had to listen to the audio version to try and move things along but it still made me grit my teeth and at times bored me to the end of my nerves.Well, if you only have one Austen to skip, skip this one. Or read it only if you're a diehard fan, which I am not.
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