Consequence: Or Whatever Became of Charlotte Lucas [Paperback]

Elizabeth Newark (Illustrator), Hugh Thomson (Illustrator, Editor), Allen Nomura (Photographer)

Product Details

• Paperback: 131 pages
• Publisher: New Ark Productions; 1 edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965914704
• ISBN-13: 978-0965914703
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,833,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars This book was about Charlotte Lucas?, January 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Consequence: Or Whatever Became of Charlotte Lucas (Paperback)

I was hoping to read about Charlotte Lucas! Alas, this book seemed to devote only one real chapter to poor Charlotte Lucas. I had thought that this book would have been more focused on Charlotte's early years and her feelings and thoughts, to get to know the reasoning why Charlotte put up with that Mr. Collins. The book very quickly jumped from meeting Mr. Collins to 5 children later. I thought it was very interesting how the author managed to get all of the probable offspring of every Jane Austen Character mentioned before chapter 7 ( I'm surprised she didn't get the offspring of Lady Susan in there). It was the probable offspring that turned me off from this book. It annoyed me, because I don't think Miss Austen intended her characters to intermingle. I'm not saying that the book was horrid or anything, I just did not care for it. I'm sorry to say that I wish that my local city library had carried it so I could have read it before I bought it! I sold my copy on ebay.

36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars 2 stars out of 5 = 40% = F . . ., May 24, 2000

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Ron Olguin Jr. (Albuquerque, New Mexico) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consequence: Or Whatever Became of Charlotte Lucas (Paperback)

In short, save your money. I recently borrowed this book from a friend and was very disappointed. Though I hate to be so severe, I think that Newark is a weak writer. Her own comments, which appear in a following review, illustrate this point. First, she didn't even click on the "I Am the Author" link (yeah). In addition, she raves about some professor's comment regarding this novel: "Jane would be proud of you." Then, Newark declares: "I intend of have those words engraved on my tombstone." Well, I "intend of" ask you not to buy this book. Newark also says: "The next reviewer claims to be a member of the Jane Austen Society, but she chooses to be anonymous. No true Jane Austen reader would hide her identity." How does Newark know that a woman wrote the previous review? There are men who love Austen's work, too. Furthermore, I have a hard time believing that Newark belongs to the Jane Austen Society. No true Jane Austen reader would ever have written this book.

34 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars consequence..., November 18, 2000

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"veil337" (Cambridge, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Consequence: Or Whatever Became of Charlotte Lucas (Paperback)

The trouble I've found in reading this novel is that I cannot put aside the feeling that no one other than Jane Austen should have the right to continue her own work; putting aside that thought, however, I still find it hard to praise a book which is born of a pen so obviously inferior to that of Austen. While imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, this weak imitation is not a worthy successor to the original piece. One should not pass off recycled words and ideals as continuing in the Austen tradition. The author's comments on this review board trouble me a great deal,although her personality is irrelevent when we're judging her pen; few objective judge of literature would declare this a good sequal to P&P, and the need to cite someone else's opinion in a short posting so full of stylistic and grammatical errors shows a real insecurity regarding one's own work and total contempt for opposing views and criticisms which I find shameful in a writer. Instead of reading this thin scrap of a book, the reader would benefit much more were he to re-read Austen's rich original.