Pride and Prejudice- Book 4

I decided back when I read the Mother Daughter Book Club books that I really should read some of the classics that I hadn't yet read.  About that time I found Pride and Prejudice free for Kindle and downloaded it. 

It took a lot of time to get into the book.  I love to read, and feel like I'm a pretty good reader, but this just took time. Not being familiar with the characters aside from Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy it was hard to figure out who was who, and who I should find likable and who I shouldn't.  The whole book really is about realizing that people form preconceived ideas about others based on social status, or what they are told. That these prejudices can make the people seem prideful in how they treat other people.  Sometimes these preconceived notions prove to be true, while other times they are discovered to be wrong.

For Elizabeth she had a lot of ideas.  Ideas of how people look, how they carry themselves, whether or not they talk to others.  What she discovered is people are not always what they seem to be, and sometimes you truly have to get to know the person directly to understand who they really are.

I'm glad I read the book, for it is a classic.  It also still reminds us today that in order to understand someone truly, we have to know them for who they really are, not who we think or have been told they might be.

I'd give the book 4 stars.