[robandjulie]

I'll preface this with the fact that I love to read all kinds of books and have read most of Austen's books. But...

I find her books somewhat hard to read the first time through. Often everyone is referred to as Mr. so-and-so and Miss So-and-So and I'll often have to slow down to go back and remind myself which of the "Miss Bingley's" was talking to that person or whatever. And sometimes the descriptions get tedious. Once I know the story I can sail through. I'd recommend starting with P&P since you'll be able to picture the scene and assign faces to them. I am a very fast reader and tend to skim over long descriptions and then get lost in her books more so than others.

But once you immerse yourself in one story (like P&P, which was the first Austen I read) and get used to her style, the next one is easier to fall into her style and so on.

I loved the long series version from a few years ago!! PBS had them on a few months ago as a miniseries and I'd catch it every few nights and get sucked in!