You're gonna be bothered by how cool I am.

However, I did love Thorpe's comments on novels - that there hadn't been a decent novel since Tom Jones and that he admired The Monk as well. Having read both of those for an 18th Century British Novel class in college (and having utterly loved both), I couldn't help but admire his taste.

Have you read the walk that Catherine takes with Mr. & Miss Tilney yet? Henry's views on the novel are conisderably more well-informed for the time period than Thorpe's. Thorpe's comments, in fact, show his ignorance as far as novels are concerned, where Henry's well-expressed sentiments on the various Gothic novels in vogue at the time show him the be a very well-read man. Interesting that the hero of Austen's novel would be one who has the supposedly low-brow taste, and the rattle would be one who disclaims knowledge of the literary world.

I'm glad you're liking NA. Many people look down on it, but I think her asides to the audience and gentle (or not-so-gentle) satire on novels of the time are hilarious.

And I want to marry Henry. :P