I love Jane Austen. I really do. Heck, I co-own an entire site dedicated to indie published Austenesque books. So love might be slightly understating it.
There is one book of hers, however, that I just cannot love - Mansfield Park. I admit that I have problems with Sense and Sensibility too. It's not my favorite, but I do not HATE it like I HATE Mansfield Park.
Truthfully, the biggest problem with Mansfield Park is its complete and utter lack of a hero. Nancy talked about this on Indie Jane, basically a post about why Edmund Bertram (the "hero" of MP) sucks so bad. After our recent Indie Jane group read of MP I went on a small rant on Instagram about WHY I HATE EDMUND BETRAM.
And I thought you all should see it. Aren't you just lucky?
You're welcome.
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“Goodbye, Mansfield Park. I take no leave of you. I send no compliments to your mother.”
OMG. I die.
Jennifer, it’s my new “go to” I can’t stand you farewell
That Lady C, she knew how to be witchy!
But you forgot the best one! It’s from early on in the book (because I ditched it pretty early, LOL!), but this:
“Having formed her mind & gained her affections, he had a good chance of her thinking like him…”
Proof: Edmund’s pretty much a creeper
::gagging::
Oh Rebecca, it saddens me you didn’t finish because it just gets SO MUCH WORSE!
I think I made it a third of the way? I’d have to doublecheck – I left my bookmark in it, even, haha … It was just … yeah. I wanted to murder the book. And then dig Jane up and have a chat
LOL!
Oh god I love you for this. Edmund IS THE WORST.
Kimberly, he really, really is.
Give me P&P’s Mr. Collins anyday over the big black hole of sucktitude called Edmund.
Dawn, that is a bold statement. But I agree
If only I could add some new idea to cause a controversy, but I can’t because I agree. “You are my only comfort” is pretty far from romantic. “I choose Fanny because she isn’t mean to me.”
And I can’t add anything better than “big black hole of suckitude called Edmund.” That just really says it all.