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Lydia Bennet's Blog: the real story of Pride and Prejudice [Kindle Edition]

Valerie Laws
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PRAISE FOR LYDIA BENNET'S BLOG:

'I've been reading LYDIA while having my chemo this afternoon. I laughed out loud. Several times - while HAVING CHEMO!!! It's brilliant. Such a clever idea and so engagingly written. This could be a really big book.' Linda Gillard, author of kindle best-seller 'House of Silence'

‘I was alternately laughing out loud and gasping at the sheer, bold brilliance of it. I loved it for its irreverence, its humour, its intelligence and its energy. Prepare to be amused, entertained, and dazzled. A very good read indeed.' Catherine Czerkawska, award-winning novelist and playwright for stage and BBC Radio 4.

'It’s actually really, really funny. … It’s got a clever literary game going on, and it’s more than just updating it to teenspeak… there’s something almost steampunky going on here… See for yourself!’ Paul Magrs, novelist (including Dr Who novels)

ABOUT THE BOOK:

If you enjoyed ‘Lost in Austen’ or ‘Clueless’, you’ll love Lydia, the streetwise youngest Bennet, a modern teen living in Regency times. She’s funny, flirty, rebellious, obsessed with fashion and fit boys, and a force to be reckoned with. Find out what really happened behind the scenes in Pride and Prejudice as Lydia schemes to save herself and her clueless family from a cash-free future, and to get her man, the supremely sexy bad boy Wickham. By an odd quirk of history, Lydia’s generation use our teen-speak, though with Regency derivations. Whether you love or loathe Jane Austen or just like a good laugh, you’ll enjoy Lydia’s conniving, eavesdropping, Mr Collins-outing, Pa-baiting, shamelessly flirtatious and outrageous adventures.

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 369 KB
  • Print Length: 266 pages
  • Publisher: Valerie Laws (19 Feb 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007BEGCMS
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #72,482 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than anti-depressants 26 Jun 2012
By Alba52
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This book is very, very clever. The trouble is, it's so funny, you might miss just how clever it is. I have little to add to the previous reviews other than to give readers an idea of the kind of outrageous humour Laws employs in her modernised version of PRIDE & PREJUDICE in which the language (but not the plot) is brought up-to-date in the style of a chatty teenage blog. WAGs stands for "Wives and Gentlewomen", Lydia consults "The Face Book" for advice about skincare and "Wiki" is her pet name for Wickham.

This linguistic game-playing might have palled if Laws weren't so inventive about the bits Austen didn't write. (I found her interpretation of the Collins/Lucas marriage convincing and oddly moving.) Laws is also spot-on with her characterisation. Of her saintly older sister, Lydia says, "Somebody would have to stab Jane through the kidneys to make a bad impression on her and even then she'd think it was an accident and apologise for dirtying the knife." (Yes! She would!)

I started reading it on my Kindle when I was attached to a drip delivering my first dose of chemotherapy for breast cancer. I laughed out loud. Several times. Any book that can make a woman laugh while hooked up to a machine pumping life-saving drugs into her battered body has to be worth 98p of anybody's money.

(And why on earth hasn't this gem of an indy book been snapped up by a publisher?...)
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If ever a self-published book deserved wider recognition it's this one. Brilliantly laugh-out-loud funny, very clever, and such a great idea you wonder why no one thought of it before.

Lydia is such a great character, and the author of this novel has really brought her out. Thoroughly recommended, especially if you're an Austen fan!
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By L. H. Healy TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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`Well it seems to be a given, when a bloke's made his pile (or waited for his Pa to peg it), he's ready to commit longterm and install some `lucky' woman to like, run his crib and die having his babies.'

Recognise this? Or think it sounds familiar in a strange sort of way? Welcome to the blog of Lydia Bennet. This book rewrites the much-loved story of Pride and Prejudice from the viewpoint of Lydia, who is a thoroughly cool and fashionable fifteen-year-old girl with a very modern turn of phrase. She introduces us to the idea behind her `blog': `Well, me and my buddies on the Net are wayyy too cool to read or write those boring ladylike journals! That's `buddies' from `rosebuds', we being young, sweet, innocent maidens (irony alert!). So we started to write our goss and news in our own style, in our `buddies' logs' or `blogs' for short, and pass them around our Network, or `the Net. Geddit? Readers are therefore immediately aware of their very hip and with-it narrator from 1811!

Lydia proceeds to guide us throughout the story we know and love so well, putting her own unique and honest perspective on people and events. She is obsessed with the arrival of the soldiers in Meryton, in particular Mr Wickham, `who's hotter than a heatwave in hell', and tells us about the much-anticipated arrival of `Blingley, as I like to call this loaded incomer.' Lydia comes across here as a smart, sassy and sussed teenager, or at least that's what she seems to think of herself! And what is her first impression of the esteemed Mr Darcy? `Darcy. Arsey more like. Oh dear, he thinks he's all that, and with reason to be honest. Handsome, if you like them snooty, looking down on us all and not just because he's tall.' As Kitty races to tell her sister, `he's dead loaded! He's got ten big ones a year!
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5.0 out of 5 stars So satisfying 30 Oct 2012
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Putting new glosses on Jane Austen, and particularly Pride and prejudice, is almost becoming an industry in itself. All the efforts are worth reading but two, for me, stand out. The ITV serial Lost in Austen until now was my favourite and meant I could never look at the original in quite the same way again. Post-modernism taken to the limit, I thought. But along comes Lydia Bennet's Blog and takes the process a step further in just about the wittiest, cleverest and most delightful way it's possible to imagine. The language of the blog is perfectly judged - I laughed out loud several times - and the remarkably streetwise character of Lydia is marvellously convincing. But the most remarkable feature is the fidelity to the book. Yes, the marriage of Collins and Charlotte is perfectly accounted for, Darcy and even Lizzie are cut down to size, Mrs Bennet becomes almost noble, the saintly put-upon Mr Bennet a repulsive porn-addicted recluse - and we accept it all. Yet the original is not demeaned or diminished because Lydia's blog is in itself an act of homage. The 'puppet-master' has done her job brilliantly. If no commercial publisher takes this on, then the publishing world really is doomed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars LOL! 14 Sep 2012
By Wench
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I absolutely loved Lydia Bennet's Blog. It was recommended by a friend, and I tried it, not expecting much - but I LOL! It's inventive, ingenious, and genuinely funny. I was impressed by the historical knowledge underpinning it too, and the detailed knowledge of the book it parodies.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulous, and really funny 23 July 2012
By Ceri
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This is Pride and Prejudice, from Lydia's point of view, written in modern youth-speak. There are lots of little nods to modern culture, such as Lydia and her friends sharing the 'Face book' which is a book of beauty remedies, and little things like references to WAGs (wives and gentlewomen) etc.

The aspect of this book that I liked best though is that a different slant has been put on the events of Pride and Prejudice so things that in the original book that are coincidences, such as Lizzy going to Kent when Darcy is there turn out not to be coincidences, Lydia has decided to look after her family's future by getting Lizzy married to Darcy (or 'Arsey' as Lydia refers to him!). She is the one who sets up Charlotte and Collins and when she decides she wants to marry her bad boy she works out a way for them to be able to afford it. So rather than the 'thoughtless' Lydia of P&P we actually have a master planner, who finds things out via her network of servant spies and manipulates her family to get the desired outcome. This is a really fun read and I very much enjoyed it. I even laughed out loud a few times!
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