Here’s the deal:

I wanted to read a classic. I really, really appreciate that this is one of the best novels of all time. I get it. I do.

It’s just not for me.

I thought I’d like it way more than I did, but I found myself largely bored, just slogging through. Oh no, Lydia ran off with Mr. Wickham! They’ll have to get married! Oh no, he’s a loser! It’s going to ruin us! I have the problem that I just don’t care.

It’s been my running problem throughout the entire book. It’s really well written, and I get the appeal, but I’m just not interested in a few of the major storylines.

As I said, one of the greatest novels ever written, but the story just isn’t for me right now. 4 stars out of respect, but I didn’t enjoy it all that much. Maybe I’ll try it again in a few years.

Next on my list (tentative to change) are Elsecaller / King Lopen the First of Alethkar by Brandon Sanderson (novellas part of The Stormlight Archive), then Isaac Laquedem by Alexandre Dumas.

Highlights

Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen

Chapter 1

“To oblige you, I would try to believe almost any thing, but no one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her understanding than I now do of her heart.
— Page 463 | Tuesday, June 23, 2026 at 10:01:13 PM
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Chapter 2

Two of her girls had been on the point of marriage, and after all there was nothing in it.
— Page 474 | Wednesday, June 24, 2026 at 10:15:17 PM
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Chapter 3

angry people are not always wise
— Page 816 | Saturday, August 8, 2026 at 10:33:11 PM
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Chapter 4

Darcy, on the contrary, had seen a collection of people in whom there was little beauty and no fashion, for none of whom he had felt the smallest interest, and from none received either attention or pleasure.
— Page 141 | Friday, May 29, 2026 at 10:16:00 PM
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Sir William Lucas, and his daughter Maria, a good-humoured girl, but as empty-headed as himself, had nothing to say that could be worth hearing, and were listened to with about as much delight as the rattle of the chaise.
— Page 507 | Monday, June 29, 2026 at 10:24:45 PM
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Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing, after all.
— Page 512 | Sunday, July 5, 2026 at 10:14:46 PM
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Chapter 5

Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity to what we would have others think of us.
— Page 149 | Friday, May 29, 2026 at 10:18:35 PM
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To work in his garden was one of his most respectable pleasures;
— Page 519 | Sunday, July 5, 2026 at 10:21:11 PM
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Chapter 6

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
— Page 157 | Sunday, May 31, 2026 at 9:56:44 PM
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‘Keep your breath to cool your porridge,’—and I shall keep mine to swell my song.”
— Page 161 | Sunday, May 31, 2026 at 9:59:07 PM
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Their table was superlatively stupid.
— Page 544 | Thursday, July 9, 2026 at 10:32:29 PM
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The death of your daughter would have been a blessing in comparison of this.
— Page 884 | Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 10:20:09 PM
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Chapter 7

They could talk of nothing but officers; and Mr. Bingley’s large fortune, the mention of which gave animation to their mother, was worthless in their eyes when opposed to the regimentals of an ensign.
— Page 173 | Monday, June 1, 2026 at 10:08:22 PM
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From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced
— Page 174 | Monday, June 1, 2026 at 10:08:39 PM
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“I dislike it very much,” he replied; “but it must be done.”
— Page 902 | Monday, August 17, 2026 at 10:31:18 PM
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Chapter 8

It seems to me to show an abominable sort of conceited independence, a most country-town indifference to decorum.
— Page 192 | Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 10:37:18 PM
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“I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.”
— Page 197 | Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 10:37:49 PM
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She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.
— Page 924 | Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 10:19:12 PM
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Chapter 9

“That is exactly what I should have supposed of you,” said Elizabeth.
“You begin to comprehend me, do you?” cried he, turning towards her.
“Oh yes—I understand you perfectly.”
— Page 209 | Saturday, June 6, 2026 at 10:43:37 PM
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“Ah, Jane, I take your place now, and you must go lower, because I am a married woman.”
— Page 938 | Thursday, August 20, 2026 at 10:06:47 PM
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Chapter 10

The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance.
— Page 225 | Sunday, June 7, 2026 at 10:20:29 PM
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I do not know any body who seems more to enjoy the power of doing what he likes than Mr. Darcy.
— Page 588 | Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at 10:28:46 PM
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But he found, in reply to this question, that Wickham still cherished the hope of more effectually making his fortune by marriage, in some other country.
— Page 957 | Friday, August 21, 2026 at 10:45:52 PM
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Chapter 11

“You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other’s confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking: if the first, I should be completely in your way; and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire.”
— Page 246 | Monday, June 8, 2026 at 3:32:04 PM
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He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.
— Page 251 | Monday, June 8, 2026 at 3:34:17 PM
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“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”
Elizabeth’s astonishment was beyond expression. She stared, coloured, doubted, and was silent.
— Page 604 | Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 10:30:53 PM
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“You could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it.”
— Page 615 | Tuesday, July 21, 2026 at 10:35:35 PM
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Chapter 12

To Mr. Darcy it was welcome intelligence: Elizabeth had been at Netherfield long enough. She attracted him more than he liked; and Miss Bingley was uncivil to her, and more teasing than usual to himself
— Page 255 | Monday, June 8, 2026 at 3:38:04 PM
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Chapter 13

“ ’Tis too much!” she added, “by far too much. I do not deserve it. Oh, why is not every body as happy?”
— Page 1021 | Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 9:54:56 PM
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You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.
— Page 1025 | Tuesday, August 25, 2026 at 9:57:36 PM
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Chapter 14

Catherine, weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia’s guidance, had been always affronted by their advice; and Lydia, self-willed and careless, would scarcely give them a hearing. They were ignorant, idle, and vain.
— Page 668 | Sunday, July 26, 2026 at 9:53:28 PM
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Chapter 15

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there: his civility, therefore, was most prompt in inviting Mr. Collins to join his daughters in their walk; and Mr. Collins, being in fact much better fitted for a walker than a reader, was extremely well pleased to close his large book, and go.
— Page 287 | Monday, June 8, 2026 at 10:40:23 PM
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Chapter 16

“Look here, I have bought this bonnet. I do not think it is very pretty; but I thought I might as well buy it as not.
— Page 682 | Monday, July 27, 2026 at 10:10:02 PM
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Jane will be quite an old maid soon, I declare. She is almost three-and-twenty! Lord! how ashamed I should be of not being married before three-and-twenty!
— Page 687 | Monday, July 27, 2026 at 10:12:52 PM
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Chapter 17

“They have both,” said she, “been deceived, I dare say, in some way or other, of which we can form no idea.
— Page 327 | Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 10:06:41 PM
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“While I can have my mornings to myself,” said she, “it is enough. I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements. Society has claims on us all; and I profess myself one of those who consider intervals of recreation and amusement as desirable for every body.”
— Page 331 | Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 10:10:36 PM
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The general prejudice against Mr. Darcy is so violent, that it would be the death of half the good people in Meryton, to attempt to place him in an amiable light.
— Page 701 | Saturday, August 1, 2026 at 10:08:10 PM
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Your lively talents would place you in the greatest danger in an unequal marriage. You could scarcely escape discredit and misery. My child, let me not have the grief of seeing you unable to respect your partner in life. You know not what you are about.
— Page 1104 | Friday, August 28, 2026 at 10:46:30 PM
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“If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite at leisure.”
— Page 1106 | Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 10:24:21 PM
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Chapter 18

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”
— Page 1111 | Saturday, August 29, 2026 at 10:27:10 PM
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I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh.
— Page 1119 | Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 10:09:44 PM
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Chapter 19

You could not make me happy, and I am convinced that I am the last woman in the world who would make you so.
— Page 388 | Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 10:43:39 PM
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but where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
— Page 728 | Monday, August 3, 2026 at 9:56:21 PM
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Chapter 20

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
— Page 400 | Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at 10:30:45 PM
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Chapter 22

Charlotte, the wife of Mr. Collins, was a most humiliating picture!
— Page 439 | Friday, June 19, 2026 at 10:14:14 PM
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