Is Jane Austen overrated? Or does she deserve the praise she gets

Is Jane Austen overrated? Or does she deserve the praise she gets.

She's incredible.
Veeky Forums just hates her because she'd make fun of it.

is there a jane austen movie coming out and associated marketing campaign? pride and prejudice was number one on guttenburg lately and it's at the top of the free section of apple ibooks too

Her death anniversary was a day or so ago.

Speaking of, I'm really tired of people wanking off Pride and Prejudice. It's not the best thing she wrote. It may not even be in the top five.

It may not be the best thing she wrote, but it's definitely one of the only things they've read.

looks overweighted there

She might be good, but I'm so fucking tired of hearing of her and I'm so fucking tired of her fans that I'm really not that inclined to read her. I read somewhere back that she needs to be rescued from her fans because she's closer to Machiavelli than any other writer: "a ruthless dissector of power politics." Only thing I've read about her that made me want to read her.

For what it's worth, Strauss supposedly once said that he thanked God he was more a Jane Austen fan than a Dostoyevsky fan. For what it's worth, I'm more of a Fyodr kinda guy.

Citation needed

>I'm so fucking tired of her fans that I'm really not that inclined to read her.
That's stupid. That's like refusing to read Portrait of Dorian Gray because some committee claimed Oscar Wilde as a gay icon and you don't like the Pride Parade. Jane Austen's prose is some of the best work in the English language.

From what I've read of hers (which isn't much), I figure I've gathered this much: her work appeals to a slim demographic whilst exhibiting scenarios and touting morals that apply to practically everybody, both in terms of the modern day. I'm not one to jump to pick up an Austen novel, but I won't bash them either.

Having really only a couple of her books, I will say she's not a bad writer, if heavy handed and deadpan with her messages.
The biggest trouble with Austen, as other anons said, are the fans. Most of them like the books apart from their literary merit. They're read as romantic period pieces and portrayed that way as well, which entirely misses the point of what Austen actually tried to achieve with her writing.
A shame, even if I'm not particularly interested in her.

I didn't say it was a rational thing, just that it turned me off. Like if a friend recommends a particular movie to you again and again and again; the movie could be the best one ever made, this guy might be the best friend you've ever had, but, if the dude just won't shut the fuck up, then, damn, you don't want to watch that movie.

Oscar Wilde is at least a fucking freak and doesn't really fit into any categories (didn't he have a socialist phase? And then end as some sort of arch-conservative?) I'm tired of superannuated theater nerds spazzing out about some drawing room love affair. I mean, goddamn, at least Bronte dorks have some self-respect, and at least the Bronte sisters were legit fucked-up.

And then what happens if I read Jane Austen and like her? I get to hear "I told you so"? And then only have aspies and feminists to talk to about her? Not very promising.

But, yeah, fine, I'll read Jane fucking Austen. Which one first? I'm thinking Northanger Abbey because 1) it's at least fucking short, and 2) I kind of like reading authors' less popular books.

Nobody cares what you read. The only people saying "I told you so" are the voices in your head that you've created from reading too much internet drama. Make real friends.

My favorite is Mansfield Park and bloggers think it can be problematic at times so you've at least got that.

Not that guy, but start with either Pride and Prejudice, Emma, or Sense and Sensibility. They flow the best, IMO.

>The only people saying "I told you so" are the voices in your head that you've created from reading too much internet drama.

She's a ruthless and honest satirist of social convention.

Emma satires Pride and Prejudice. Read P&P first.

She didn't even write her novels herself; her editor was a serious proto-Maxwell Perkins type who rewrote them completely, giving them the biting wit we all know and love...

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

If she wasn't English nobody would give a fuck about her.

overrated amongst plebs
underrated amongst tryhards

Jane Austen... easy on the carrots

I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to Veeky Forums, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her.