Gay Pride and Prejudice

The original P&P is my absolute favourite book. I have. Read it more times than I can count, listen to the audio book at least yearly and have seen everyenglsh language adaptation made. I love it for it's romance, it's comment on it's time and the expertly drawn characters, dialogue and phraseology. Sadly the lesbian aspect to the romance has always happened 'manually'.Another reviewer states the added passages are"convincing". I don't think one could quite go that far, it IS Jane Austen's writing she is mimicking, a writer who died 200 years ago, was popular in her time and is still as popular today. Not to mention that Jane was writing in her own contemporary language and the story is so familiar to so many people.At times the additions seem very 'clunky'. Of course they do. The thing is I read it avidly anyway. Such a joy to have the lesbian romance and it is well written.I would recommend this to readers who want a healthy dose of 'historical' lesbian romance whether they are familiar with the original or not. There are no sex scenes added (this is romance not erotica) thank God.

'Queer Pride and Prejudice' would be a better title - 'Gay' implies a m/m focus, but whilst that is present the primary romance of this story is between two women. And how well Christie pulls it off. Small changes here and there in the narrative, the addition of some paragraphs, the re-attribution of some dialogue - she shifts the centre of gravity in the novel with minimal disruption, leaving about the best lesbian historical romance one could ever hope to read (i.e. one written, nearly, by Jane Austen). It's hard to go into details without spoiling too much for the new reader, but I feel she preserves the emotional sense underpinning the original plot very well - the pride and the prejudice are still there, and for myself I couldn't help feeling even more drawn to this version of events. Of course it isn't flawless, but I enjoyed this intensely, and gets 5 stars from me on the basis that I've re-read it three times since buying it.

A queering of Pride and Prejudice -how delightful!I loved this book and thought Kate Christie did a great job making just enough changes that the same-sex attractions seem realistic. Her additions fitted well with Austen's original style.The new Mr Bennet was particularly funny.A great read, if you like the classics but heterosexual romance isn't your cup of tea!The cover is nice too :-)

I'm sorry but that's what I thought it was. It might have seemed a good idea when the authoress thought of it but. JA's story is too well known so for this to work it had to be something special, and it isn't. Interesting idea though.

If you didn't know better you could easily mistake this for Jane Austen - the plot and dialogue is expertly woven between new and old. Much much better that P&P&zombies. The romance many of us have been waiting for!

I'm a big fan of Pride & Prejudice and read it every couple of years or so, this is the original words and situations, but every now and then, we get a different view point, and the story goes gay. The second half of the book ties up the different couples together, in a beliverable way.

Life for the Bennet sisters in the quiet rural County of Hertfordshire, England, is all set to change dramatically. A rich, single gentleman has arrived at Netherfield Park. Mrs Bennet is delighted. Surely one of her daughters will make Mr Bingley a good wife? After all, she does have five of them for him to choose from.Elizabeth though has other ideas and marriage isn't one of them. Elizabeth has been seeing Charlotte romantically for quite sometime. It's only when Charlotte decides to marry Mr Collins, that Elizabeth must re-think her options. It's not that Elizabeth doesn't have choices. Men do ask for her hand in marriage, but not all women feel desire towards men, nor do all men feel desire towards women. There are some who prefer the company of their own sex. What will Elizabeth decide to do? Will Elizabeth ever find another to love?First of all I'll start by saying I haven't read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, so I have nothing to compare this version with. I have no idea how much of the text is Kate Christie's and how much is Jane Austen's. I have seen the film version though, so I do know the original story. In my opinion, this book is as true to the original story as possible.This is a wonderfully refreshing and cleverly written new take on a much loved classic. I think Kate chose exactly the right characters to write in as gay. She didn't make the story all about the gay characters, which simply wouldn't have sounded right. The dialogue is written in the style of the time the original book was written.I thoroughly enjoyed this book, even though I've never been too fond of reading the classics, I much prefer the film versions. I've always found reading them hard going, if only they were all re-written with Kate's skill, I may have enjoyed reading them more.I would love to see this version of Pride and Prejudice made in to a film or even a TV drama.Well done Kate on what must have been a very difficult and time consuming task to get spot on.