I think Sense and Sensibility had the same level of "scandalousness" as Pride and Prejudice (especially considering they were written by a woman in the early 1800s) but it also had the same (relatively) happy ending. It irritates me to read a story that ends badly (ex: Lord of the Flies) because I feel like I wasted my time. I know not all stories have happy endings, and it would be really boring to read only happy stories, but if I'm going to pick my way through all that period writing, there damn well better be a happy ending. Plus there's a difference between good endings and happy ones. But it was a good book and I read through it in a week, which is pretty quick considering it was at school the whole time. I mainly read it while doing all the various training that required waiting for vacuums to pump down for 45-90 minutes at a time. I also read some on the weekend when I was here for those 6 hours stretches letting stuff stir/dissolve. I finished it today in the chem lab while I was watching my polymer distill (that sounds as thrilling as it was).
I'm also currently reading Ender's Game; I read about 100 pages the first night I had it at home, but I haven't been able to read much of it since then. It's pretty likely I will finish that this weekend though :-) I'm also currently reading the British edition of HP and the Order of the Phoenix (but I don't even bother to count HP books in my monthly readings).
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