<p>Don't you agree that it is completely unfair to make MALE students read Pride and Prejudice? We need more choice! This book is the biggest piece of trash I've ever touched...who cares about their little strolls through town and balls and meeting Bingley and Darcy....they can all burn! But seriously, shouldn't it be a choice?</p>
<p>no it shouldn't. everyone should read pride and prejudice. and if they don't like it they should have to read it again.</p>
<p>Okay, then we will make you read Azimov!</p>
<p>Half the kids in school would rather fail the test than pretend to touch that disgusting book, the girls included.</p>
<p>Jane Austen is brilliant, end of story. On first glance P&P is a very shallow read, but once you get into it - her writing style is amazing. The lines carry a lot more depth than you would think. </p>
<p>Besides, if you have to read Pride and Prejudice.... why did I have to read Beowulf AND Grendel AND listen to Beowulf on tape (Seamus Heaney version) for 12 hours AND watch 13th Warrior? Not my cup of tea, but I did it anyways.</p>
<p>Personally, I don't think any average (not that CC students are average) would want to read Pride and Prejudice, but it's flat out sexist to say that only girls have to read it.</p>
<p>cowgirl, those can be the other choices like I said. plus, i'm sure a little action doesn't bore you all that much</p>
<p>The take-home message I got from reading "Pride and Prejudice" in college is simply the accurate, intimate portrait of what it meant to be a young, unmarried woman back in those times in England. You get a real sense of the desperation and stress. If you don't find a husband, you'll be poor the rest of your life. If you make a single social mistake, you could find yourself ostracized for the rest of your life, therefore having no hope for finding a husband to support you. It really wasn't very pleasant - the pressure was intense, to say the least. Makes a college search look like pea-shooting, in comparison.</p>
<p>The message is the same for all readers. Women have not always enjoyed the freedoms and social status that they do now. Let's not go back to a time when marriage is, quite literally, everything important in a young woman's life. Let's not go back to a time when women must depend totally upon their husbands and sons for a living.</p>
<p>Someone missed their nappy...</p>
<p>I don't think Jane Austen is brilliant, and I also don't think her writing style is any good. However, it's an accurate period piece, and that's pretty much an established fact.</p>
<p>It's true that I haven't been forced into reading it, but I have to say, Pride and Prejudice is a heck of a lot better than Things Fall Apart. Anyway, if I was able to force myself through The House of Seven Gables during sophomore year, this can not be too much worse.</p>
<p>It is not cruel and unusual-it's a literary classic. You are NOT the only guy to read it, so stop acting like it's torture.</p>
<p>It's a fantastic book, it had been enjoyed by thousands of people across the world. if you don't like it, then it's a personal choice. The book is read by men and women, but the female follow-readership of the book is higher. I like this book because it's witty, her style is very elegant and to the point, and it shows what it was like for a woman of her status in those times very well.</p>
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