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This is a modern re-telling of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. It basically transports all the characters and events directly to the 21st century, adding things like cell phones and iPods as needed. As an intellectual exercise, this was interesting to read, but many of the characters ended up pretty unlikeable in their modern versions. It's a lot harder to feel sympathy for a family of women turned out of their inheritance when they clearly have the option to just get a job. I think if you'
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I've read and watched a lot of great re-imaginings and updates on Jane Austen and I was little disappointed about this version. It is probably all the hype surrounding these updated versions by famous authors. It wasn't bad but I did wish there was more to it, more innovation, more something. If you like S&S, you will probably like this because there isn't that much changed except the setting is clearly present times.
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Too similar to the original, which makes it very moving in parts but also not convincingly set in the modern world.
Tedious. There is a meanness to the characters in this version without Austen's irony.
And WHAT is with the slang in this series? I no zero modern teenagers who make the "W" sign for "whatever" with their hands (that stopped being a thing about two years after Clueless came out and was passé by my second year of college).
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And WHAT is with the slang in this series? I no zero modern teenagers who make the "W" sign for "whatever" with their hands (that stopped being a thing about two years after Clueless came out and was passé by my second year of college).
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