I figured I would go to the top of the list and read Pride and Prejudice even though I was not really looking forward to it. I have to say, it wasn’t as bad as I assumed it would be, but I still didn’t enjoy it very much. It felt very drawn out in places and the italics drove me crazy. It seemed that Jane Austen felt that all the characters should emphasize most of their words and I felt like characters were always yelling or talking loudly to each other. It was a good story, although the ending felt very rushed and fit together too conveniently.
I know I’m not really doing the novel justice in this short write up, but I just was not enthused by it. While I may not be its biggest fan, I do recommend reading Pride and Prejudice simply for the experience of meeting the Bennet family and Mr. Darcy.

‘That is very true,’ replied Elizabeth, ‘and I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.’
‘Pride,” observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, ‘is a very common failing I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed, that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the works are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.’