If you identify with Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) regarding Jane Austin —
I haven’t any right to criticise books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read ‘Pride and Prejudice’ I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
– Letter to Joseph Twichell, 13 September 1898
— stop reading now. Some of us (points to self) are big fans.
However, if you read the following and can actually see the wonderful Allison Steadman acting this out —


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