The Jane Austen Book Club

Well, finally finished reading this book & it was like yawwwnnn! It definitely gets listed in my “drag-gone” category; yeah it was draaaaggggging & finally was gone after lots of effort! Uh the thought of writing about this book itself makes me feel zzzzzzz. But still I will write about it in the interest of those who can pick up this book reading all the good testimonials mentioned on its cover. In fact I had picked up this book with lots of expectations myself esp. because had heard whole lot of good things about the movie based on this book & secondly the cover page of the book really hard sells it to be a great reading. My general assumption is that if it’s a movie based on any book then generally the book is better to read as compared to watching the movie but guess I was wrong in this case. Book was definitely not worth the hype.

As the title suggest, “The Jane Austen Book Club” is a story of six members of a book club who meet & discuss Jane Austen’s novels once a month. The group consists of 5 women – Jocelyn, Sylvia, Prudie, Allegra, Bernadette & 1 man – Grigg. Jocelyn who is the initiator of this book club believes that it is essential to reintroduce Austen into your life regularly & that’s why she starts this book club. Each of their monthly book club meeting unfolds their own stories & some association with Austen’s novels.

Personally speaking I loved Austen’s novels & hence thought I might like a book which is based on a book club of Jane Auten, but then I will say I was disappointed. Mainly because this book lacked the grip to hold my attention, after a few pages itself I lost my interest & found the flow of the book to be very confusing. Till last I could not understand the main point which author was trying to make. I know it was meant to be a light & fun read but somewhere it never served that purpose. So, from my side it’s a thumbs down for this book totally.

Other details of the book:
Author
: Karen Joy Fowler
Price: I had bought it a dirt cheap price in a book sale 🙂 but think the original price of the book is Rs. 560/-
Special Note: It took me 7 weeks to drag & finally finish this 243 paged book. Reason – couldn’t read more than 10 pages at one go!

I’m off to “Marrying Anita” now, was supposed to read “Outliers” but guess I need to read a funny book after this Book Club thingy before I go for a serious read 🙂

9 comments

  1. Shayari

    Hmmm:-(

    Gladwell’s Outliers? Well do share your take on it. Kinda apprehensive of the book.. esp after having read the author’s Blink.

  2. Aarthi

    Watch the movie, its better than book!

  3. Sharanya

    I don’t know about the book, but the movie is absolutely charming 🙂

  4. Renu

    kabhi kabhi aisa bhi hota ha..naam bade aur darshan chhote,aur books me to kaafi hota ha mere saath.

    me reading Ludlum now..a..days:)

  5. Smita

    Have heard about the book but thanks for saving my money 😉

  6. Kanupriya

    @ Aarthi: Yea heard so.

    @ Shayari: Sure, will do.

  7. Kanupriya

    @ Smita: :):D

    @ Renu: Yea it was one of the classical cases of “naam bade aur darshan chote”

    @ Sharanya: Thanx for dropping by, yea think movie will be better.

  8. DonateYourPC

    I thought you picked the book because of those beautiful strawberries on the cover 😀

    BTW.. I had read that ‘Never judge a book by its movie!’

    Some ppl said that abt The Namesake, but I loved the book too.

  9. Renu

    Hey in the name sake..I loved the book more than the movie:)

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