Book Reviews of The Jane Austen Book Club

Quick fun read. Good for the beach, or a Saturday morning during the winter. Has synopsis' of Austen's books. Interesting, though simple characters. Guess the focus was on Austen more than the book club members.

I really enjoyed this book...six people are a part of an Austen-all-the-time book club. Through reading Jane Austen's six books, the book club members reveal more of themselves to the reader. As a lover of Jane Austen's work, I enjoyed reading this book...if nothing else, it made me want to read Austen's classics once again!

Even though I've only read one Jane Austen book I really enjoyed this book. It was well written and the characters were likable.Unlike other books I've read centered around book groups the characters were easy to keep track of and their lives were interwined which made the book flow together.

This was a fun quick read. Especially good if you happen to know all the Jane Austen books, but the author includes a synopsis of each book along with all kinds of interesting commentary.

Very cute and interesting for such a short read. I found that I was very invested in the characters extremely quickly. I love the conversations about Jane Austen's books too.

Even though I knew nothing about Jane Austen, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, and the stories of the individuals portrayed within.

A witty meditation on how the books we shoose, choose us too.

Fowler does so terrific a job of bringing her characters to life that Austen's work falls away like a husk. It's an impressive feat of homage, since Fowler essentially borrows Austen's great themes...and makes them her own.

A must read for any Jane Austin fan. I was disappointed with how little Jane Austin was really in the story, but it's a fun read anyway.

couldn't get into it. might appeal to the more erudite types.

I liked this book, however I had not read anything by Jane Austen at the time. If you are familiar with Jane Austen, you will appreciate and enjoy this book much more.

I enjoyed this book. A group of women, and one man, get together and form a book club, reading only works by Jane Austen. We hear their stories, broken down by month. Each month they meet at a different home to discuss one of the books. Interesting group of characters, interesting stories. I watched the movie, based upon the book, and while it was ok, the book was just so much better.

If you are looking for interesting reading ON Jane.... don't look here! The only reason this is called The Jane Austen Book Club is because once a month the members meet to discuss Jane's books. Except they really don't get discussed, not really. This book is really about the lives of the members of the club...Jane, not so much!

i wasnt sure about this book. ive never read anything by jane austen (i know, i know- i just dont freaking understand the language. lol). but i really really enjoyed the characters in this novel. except for some reason, i imagined them as black, and just couldnt accept that they were white. i also loved that theres a man, and a lesbian in the club. its just a great story of love, friendship, mettings, peoples changing lives, and how they grow and stay together. the group meets each month to discuss a novel by austen and it goes from there. i still have no urge to read an austen novel, but its great to see how the classics affect even fictional characters.

Enjoyable read!

Good for those who have had book club experiences and love Jane Austen.

Enjoyed this with my book group. Interesting characters, their relationships as revealed while preparing for book group discussion.

I bought the book because of the title. I've always loved Jane Austen. I loved it because I have always found it interesting to ponder why we read and how we engage with a book.

Good book...worth reading. Has some interesting characters.

I think you have to be an Austen fan to really appreciate this book; I'm not, and had trouble following all of the allusions. Good luck!

Very pleasant read, not as deep as Jane Austen but equally readable

I think any Jane Austen fan would get something out of this book. It was an enjoyable, light read.

A portrait of the six members of a book club who gather to read the works of Jane Austen. If you're an Austen fan, you'll enjoy this book.

As I'm not an Austen fan, I didn't enjoy this much. This was the first time I've read a book and really disliked the characters without exception.

Not as good a book as I expected.

Nice story of friends who meet to discuss the works of Jane Austen.
As the book club progresses, we follow the ups and downs of their lives.

I really enjoyed this book. I haven't read all of Austen's books, (most, but not all) and still, I could see the cleverness of the author. She weaves parts of the classic novels into the personalities and lives of her characters. I really enjoyed this book - much different from run of the mill fiction.

A good book to curl up with on a winter's day...

An enjoyable, light read. Especially good if you have read Austen. The extra features (summary of novels, reviews, etc.) were very interesting.

A great little read. Especially if you like Jane Austen and everything associated with her novels.

Ok, I love Jane Austen, but this one just wasnt for me.

This book gets a lot of good reviews so perhaps I am in the minority, as one who did not care for it. As a Jane Austen fan, I was looking forward to reading this, but the Austen book club was simply a device to set the stage for relationships and romance in the style of "Pride and Prejudice." I found it formulaic, characters dull and uninspiring -- in fact I did not finish the book. But again, I've heard that lots of readers have enjoyed this book and clearly it's gotten a lot of press - so maybe I'm just picky.

I really loved this book. It is not the genre I usually read, but it was a gift and I am so glad I read it! It's a wonderul story and a quick read whether you love Austen or not (which I do!)

I enjoyed this book and am now thinking of reading all the Jane Austen books, at some point anyway!

Austen lovers will enjoy this book, though it isn't quite as engaging as I'd hoped it would be. Still, overall an enjoyable read.

I love Jane Austen, so I thought this would be a great book. I kept waiting for something to happen. It was really boring.

I did not enjoy this book and could not finish it. The character development was incomplete to me and the attempted tie in to Jane Austen's novels really didn't work. In total I couldn't find a reason to take time to finish it.

A wonderful character-driven novel of women (and 1 lone male) who meet each month to discuss a Jane Austen novel. Each book has parallels to something in their lives. Includes a synopsis of Austen's novels so it is not necessary to have read her books to enjoy this one.

This book was a quick read for me. However I didn't really like the way it was written. Each chapter the book club discusses another Jane Austen book and whoever hosts that meeting, you get random stories about that person. This book made me want to revisit Jane Austen's books myself.

Fluff, it's fine for summer reading. It did actually inspire me to read some Jane Austen which I really loved!

I wanted to like the characters but I couldn't relate to them and it seemed to go on and on without much happening. So many people loved this book...I couldn't get through it.

an o.k. story

great chic lit!

Great Beach Book

"Fowler's funniest fiction yet, a novel about how we engage with a novel. You don't have to be a student of Jane Austen to enjoy it, either...Lovers of Austen will relish this book, but I envy any reader who comes to it unfamiliar with her. There's no better introduction."

NY Times Bestseller

The story of several women and one man whose lives revolve around Jane Austen's stories.

Members of a book club read the works of Jane Austen and the author uses the club as a way to bring these very varied cahacters together.

A story of a book club, over the course of a year.

Fabulous - cuts through the current trend in Hollywood Austen stylings

I got this book through paperbackswap.com and decided to move it to the top of my to be read pile since I noticed my sister wanted to read it too. So, I tried to get through this quickly so I could give it to her over Christmas when we would see each other. I enjoyed the novel, even though it's been years since I read my last Austen novels, so I was quite happy to have the synopses of each Austen book in the back. That being said, I didn't feel that you needed to be fully intimate with each book to appreciate the novel, though I'm sure devotees of Miss Austen will have a deeper appreciation. The characters were interesting (Allegra was my favorite), and I found myself somewhat involved with them, though it wasn't a novel that will impress itself on you. It was a light read for me, but I hope my sister enjoys it!

I really enjoyed this bood.

Given to me by a friend who knows I like to swap books here. I had listened to this on tape a ways back and was lukewarm on it - I think it would have helped if I'd read more Jane Austen. Chick Lit of the Oprah variety - what is called Women's Fiction.

Great read. My bookclub read this book. I loved it. Tells the stories of a group of people in a bookclub.

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