Lost in Austen: Create Your Own Jane Austen Adventure

After watching the movie "Lost in Austen", which I thought was really good and a lot of fun, I ordered the book on which the movie was supposedly based. But it turns out the book and movie have almost nothing in common.This is a "choose your own adventure" book, one in which you play a character and make various choices. These choices lead to different parts of the book and different story lines and outcomes. The character played in this book is a young Regency-era woman looking to make a good marriage. Like I said in my title, definitely not for most guys and definitely not for me.But leaving audience aside, let's look at this from the standpoint of Austen fan-fiction. It does incorporate settings and ideas from the Austen canon, although not in an especially brilliant manner. It seems sort of forced, despite quite an effort on the author's part. The book's story lines are weak and trite, although perhaps some fun if you're in the target audience. There are some highly un-Austenlike endings and scenes, at least one of which is very off-putting and completely spoils the mood and atmosphere.Do I recommend this book? Not really, unless you want something completely different and non-linear in approach (meaning branching story lines and alternative endings). Certainly don't make my mistake and think it has anything to do with the movie. There is much, much better Austen fan fiction out there. Start with Laurie Viera Rigler, for instance, and get much more out of your reading time.

It helps if you know the original story BUT it's not necessarily to read/play. You do not need to keep score. Maybe flip a coin if it asks you if you don't have enough points to continue. I had a lot of fun keeping score bc I like RPGs. But you can just play without doing so, and it's no less fun. I loved it one day in sent one to my Austen loving friend on day two, and she was thrilled.

I grew up with "choose your own adventure" books, so the concept of this book is a very familiar one to me.This book is a very good introduction to Pride and Prejudice, and, by way of some side paths, pieces of several other Austen novels. In choosing one path or another, answering one way or another, or simply reading along, the reader is treated to facts about the Regency period, a deeper insight of Austen's characters (especially Elizabeth Bennet), and, often, a good laugh.I would recommend this to YA girls attempting to read P&P the first time. It's a good accompaniment as it really does expose a deeper level of P&P that many readers might miss. Also it's a good laugh for Austen fans. General readers, however, mightn't find it quite so captivating.(*)>

This was even better than I had imagined a choose-your-own-adventure book around Jane Austen's work could be! If you know and love most of her books, keeping statistics, regency era societal rules, and sardonic humor, this book is a must read!If read to completion, it is even quite a bit more feminist than it at first appears (which could equally be said of many Austen lovers).Only hint of a criticism is that the author seems not to appreciate Persuasion and the characters in it as much as I think it deserves. Furthermore, I think the cover could be more enticing.

I originally poo-pooed this book when told about it. I imagined it would be stupid and insulting. I bought it for a friend as a joke and leafed through a few pages. Needless to say, I found it light hearted and entertaining so I bought my own copy. If you follow the "original" storyline it is insightful and fun to read. The author's remarks in bold are really what the reader would be thinking. I laughed out loud quite a bit and really enjoyed it. I did deviate from the original story a few times (you'll have lots of choices to do this) and found hilarious possibilities with other Austen characters. I really loved it and I'm glad the Webster wrote it. I often thought what it would be like if Elizabeth met with other characters - now I know!

I purchased this book after I had seen the mini-series of the same name. While this book is not like the mini-series, the premise is the same. As the reader you step into the shoes of Elizabeth Bennett and must then use your own wits and charm to make it through Austen's world. Filled with wit and humor, this book (and adventure) is absolutely worth it! There are surprise appearances from some of Austen's other heroines. The only one thing that I didn't love about this book was the author's bias about other characters teetered on becoming mean - at times she is quite blunt, and sometimes unfairly so.Other than that one hiccup, I really enjoyed this book, and plan on reading it again soon.

While it is time consuming to keep points, this book is totally worth it! Any Jane Austin fan will love the adventures. Even if you don’t make it, often you laugh out loud at your demise. I highly recommend this for any Austen fan looking for a fun and interactive read. So many options, you can read it again and again!

I was really excited when I found this book but after reading it...I'm altogether disappointed. It was basically a retelling of Pride and Prejudice. If you were to choose "your own adventure" poor Elizabeth would end up unhappy, alone or dead. You pretty much had to go along with everything that happened in the real story. The whole "Emma" part was rediculous. The add points/deduct points was annoying. This could have been an awesome, fun read...turned out to be quite the opposite. :(

It takes from several Austen books and creates a fun narrative.

This book was hilarious!I have read several of Jane Austen's books (Pride & Prejudice being my favourite) so reading this and going through the various endings was a lot of fun.Even the points system was hilarious.

Per fortuna l'ho acquistato usato, in ottimo stato e con all'interno gli appunti di chi l'ha letto precedentemente. All'inizio é divertente ma dopo un po' diventa noioso e grottesco. Ottimo esercizio in inglese

Links in the Kindle version didn't always lead to the right pages. The book itself was fun to read and play along with, but seemed itself prejudiced (see what I did there?) in favour of Mr Darcy.

Fun