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Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (Paperback)

by Emma Campbell Webster (Author)

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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Atlantic Books (1 May 2008)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1843546078
ISBN-13: 978-1843546078
Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 2.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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"'Ever wanted to travel around inside an Austen novel and wonder how you'd fare meeting Darcy for the first time? Think you could be smart enough to see through Wickham's little game? Being Elizabeth Bennet will give YOU the chance to find out and is both amusing, enlightening and un-Austen-tatious.' Jasper Fforde"

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Elizabeth Bennet is the wittiest and most attractive heroine in English literature. And for the first time, in "Being Elizabeth Bennet", you are given the opportunity to star in the most popular novel in the English language: "Pride and Prejudice".You will be faced throughout this book with delicate challenges and dangerous choices. Whether you're accepting Mr Darcy the first time he professes his attachment, deciding to elope with Mr Wickham or avoiding a murderous Lady Catherine de Bourgh, this is a chance to rewrite Austen's most famous book. You decide who to marry and when. And if you have always preferred Mr Knightley's sophistication or have a sneaking admiration for the odious Mr Collins then you can marry them instead.However, make choices with caution: "Being Elizabeth Bennet" is packed with characters and plot twists to thwart your happy union with Pemberley's most eligible bachelor. You must complete five stages - and successfully negotiate your way through Austen's five other novels - before you can choose to accept Mr Darcy. But if the outcome does not suit, simply return to page one and create another new Jane Austen adventure.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Yes. Like it., 16 Oct 2007

By	Mr. L. Silvan - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Being Elizabeth Bennet: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure (Hardcover)

Well I must say I was delighted, much to my own surprise, to find this book before what turned out a pleasant train journey. I have never read any Jane Austen and I gather if I had I would have derived a lot more pleasure from the inside jokes in a manner of words, but none the less I found it very ammusing and most entertaining. I was attracted by the 'choose your own path' element as I've not seen that style since I was a lad playing the vaguely similar fantasy role-play books. I thought it sheer genius and very well created literary humour on many levels, with an unexpected level of social wit and commentary or observations that I'm sure anyone human can relate to. If you're the type to be embaressed by finding yourself laughing out loud on the train or bus, leave this book in your bedroom. A must for anyone with a sense of humour and reading skills.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Blood-thirsty, and not very inventive, 3 Jul 2008

By	AquaViola (Nottingham) - See all my reviews

I bought this book in anticipation of having a good read. It wasn't. But I did learn a lot about the authoress, Emma Campbell Webster. She is a blood-thirsty soul.

This book is divided into five parts, and generally you read page after page of Jane Austen's novel, summarised and commented, though I disagree with a lot of the comments.

You will then have a question with two choices. Sometimes the wrong answer leads to disaster. For example, the first question is whether you will walk down the left road or the right road. Choosing the left road leads to you being attacked with permanent disfigurement and THE END, with a comment that "you deserve to be disfigured. Be ashamed." So my "Jane Austen adventure" would have ended after Chapter 2. Not really the sort of book Jane Austen would have written.

The sudden and bad endings continue throughout the book. You could have married and then eventually have murdered Mr Collins. If you refuse to speak to Mr Darcy during the dance, you slip on some ice and break your neck (why?). Other endings include Miss Bingley killing you, and not only Lady Catherine killing you, but also Darcy killing everyone else, including himself. As I said: blood-thirsty.

The safest course of action is just to do as Miss Bennet did in the book - but then what's the point? Where is the "Create your own...adventure" in doing that?

Towards the end of Parts 1-4, you are given a 3 choice question. One of the choices is as per Miss Bennet's original choice, and so you go progress into the next part. The other two choices transport you for a time into a pastiche of a different Jane Austen novel - fairly badly incorporated into the P&P novel. For example, Mr Elton might make an appearance at a party. Very clumsily done, and not really interesting.

So the book is not good reading as a Jane Austen novel - what about as a comedy book? No, it is too badly paced for that. A comedy book would not have page after page after page of Jane Austen's original novel (summarised). The comedy moments outside of Miss Austen's novel are too spaced out.

As a "Create your own" book, the introduction says "...your mission will also be influenced by... your Accomplishments, Intelligence, Confidence, Connections and Fortune". No it isn't. You make a list of them as they arise, but with no purpose whatsoever. The only question that you are asked occasionally is about your Intelligence. Apparently if you are too intelligent, you will always make a bad marriage.

When you reach the end of the book, it is made clear that apparently only someone with more Intelligence than Jane Austen's Miss Bennet could have written this book. What conceit!

Basically, the best bit in this book is the original story - but why would you spend the money when the original and better could be bought for a couple of pounds? The dust jacket says "This is her first book". I disagree. The better bits are Jane Austen's book - as she says "I would like to thank Jane Austen, very much, for being out of copyright". Right... Having read this book, I wish it was still in copyright.

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5.0 out of 5 stars What a brilliant idea! Great fun., 4 Oct 2008

By	Leona Harries (Manchester) - See all my reviews

I feel moved to write this review having just read the 1 star comments.
I think this is a fantastic idea and a brilliant idea. I have loved following different paths through Jane Austen's novels and wondering what might have happened had Elizabeth Bennett chosen a different route.
The idea of the reader making narrative choices of this kind in an adult book, and through a literary landscape so well-known to many, is inspirational. I think this book is a lot of fun and I'll be buying it for all my girl-friends for Christmas.

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5.0 out of 5 stars fabulous!
I wish all books I came across were this enjoyable! Emma Campbell Webster is a very clever woman and I think any Austen fan would appreciate what she has done with this book. Read more

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