I enjoyed this silly book, and I think it has spared me for some time from any motivation I might have had to read Mrs. Radcliffe or her contemporary gothic novelists. Let's not go to Northanger; 'tis a silly place.
I'm about to read Val McDermid's update on this classic, and expect I will enjoy comparing the way she'll do it with the ways I imagined Catherine and Isabella as 21st century girls.