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Northanger Abbey

Jane Austen

Finish date: August 16, 2009

Why we're reading this: Great story. Love Kathy. She is so normal. Reader is the excellent Elizabeth Klett.
[close] Great story. Love Kathy. She is so normal. Reader is the excellent Elizabeth Klett.

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Dec 31, 2015 Lindsay rated it liked it

Not my favorite Jane Austen due to a few annoying characters and the silly results of too much horror themed novel reading, but still a good listen on librivox by another favorite narrator, Elizabeth Klatt.

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Nov 23, 2007 benebean rated it really liked it

Shelves: female-protagonist, light, medium, comfort-reads, could-recommend, historical-fiction, classics, cleaness-granny-smiles, flibrary, wise-books

So the first time I listened to this book, the only version I could find was abridged. This combined with lack of literary acumen on my part in not realizing it was in fact a parody of gothic literature, caused me to count this as my least favorite of the Jane Austen books.

However, I finally decided to revisit it when I found it as an unabridged audiobook at my library. This time through was totally different from the first. This book is hilarious. I love it!

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Jun 28, 2010 bup rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 1001, librivox, audiobook, novel, 2010

Well, it's her first novel, and while it's good, Austen doesn't quite have the right feel in place. She's got a few great characters - particularly the Thorpe siblings, but the pace of the plot is off. It almost feels like we're in the wrong place when some of the most important things happen, and that we hear about them after the fact. Obviously, that was a conscious decision by Austen, but still, the stuff we missed constitutes the major action of the novel.

I also don't get what was so great a ...more

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Jul 25, 2013 Michael Bafford rated it liked it

I dunno. Ok, I read this about 40 years ago and thought it was uneven but generally fun. Now... Not as much fun as I remember, but very uneven. The Bath part I found trying, a long yawn. I do enjoy Jane's direct address to the reader.

Fjnally at the Abbey things picked ip. I wondered if Jane never married because she did not find her Mr.Tilney?

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As light historical (which it has become) •••. ...more

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