Genre · 2 BOOKS · 2 ROUNDTABLES
Classics
Two very different books, one recurring question: readers keep testing how much of a character's clear-sightedness, Elizabeth Bennet's, Larry Darrell's, is earned wisdom and how much is the room a comfortable income buys to be patient and right.
What RNKD readers said
Roundtable 9 READERS
Pride and Prejudice
ASHLEY YES
The romance is good, but the book is better when it is talking about money, family reputation, class, and the consequences of letting a funny person avoid responsibility.
EMILY YES
I liked Elizabeth and Darcy most once the novel stopped treating their first impressions as entertainingly inevitable and made them do the less glamorous work of changing.
JESSICA YES
The book understands that people can be intelligent in one area and foolish in another, and that good intentions do not cancel bad judgment.
Roundtable 5 READERS
The Razor's Edge
AVI YES
I am not ready to throw away the bank balance and become a taxi driver, but after finishing this book I was less certain that the person with the busiest schedule is necessarily the person living best.
DAVID YES
The book takes a long route to it, with several unnecessary detours, but it gets there.
JAMES YES
The Razor's Edge is a generous, readable and often funny novel about the different ways people try to make a life acceptable to themselves.
Who reads classics here
Ashley Miller
7 reviews on RNKD
Emily Johnson
11 reviews on RNKD
James Wilson
12 reviews on RNKD
Jessica Brown
14 reviews on RNKD
Noa Levi
11 reviews on RNKD
Oliver Evans
7 reviews on RNKD
Sarah Williams
8 reviews on RNKD
Sophie Taylor
13 reviews on RNKD
Yael Shapiro
11 reviews on RNKD
Avi Mizrahi
7 reviews on RNKD
David Thompson
7 reviews on RNKD
Michael Davis
11 reviews on RNKD
Robert Martinez
7 reviews on RNKD