Why yes, yes I do. I do think that, and I do know her work. Well, five of the six completed novels. Northanger Abbey and the juvenalia I admit to being weaker on.
I've enjoyed John Sutherland's literary quiz books (Who Betrays Elizabeth Bennet? and Can Jane Eyre Be Happy? and Is Heathcliff a Murderer?) and I have Deirdre Le Faye's edition of Austen's letters.
(Damn it, I can't call her Austen. I like calling her Jane.)
I will come back to this book again and again. Some of their questions and analyses I like a lot--e.g., what godparents are identified in Mansfield Park, and what kind of farmer is Mr. Knightley--and others I think are obvious to the point of unnecessary--is Mrs. Weston Emma's accomplice or even confidante about her marriage project for Harriet Smith--and others I disagree with. To wit: when Darcy refers to the impropriety displayed even by Mr. Bennet, what is he referring to? Le Faye avers it is Mr. Bennet's partiality for Wickham. Er, no, it's Mr. Bennet's unkind manner of preserving the Netherfield Ball from any more of Mary's exhibition.
One of the fun things about this--an exceedingly casual look at literature through a lens of evolutionary biology--was reading it while overhearing RDC's current audiobook, The Inner Ape. I did not read the following line exactly when his book used it, because that might have caused the space-time continuum to collapse, but both texts did a) quote "The African Queen" at all and b) one of my best lines: "Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put on earth to rise above."
The father-daughter pair of authors, David and Nanell Barash, obviously like their movies as well as their books, the former perhaps a bit too much. Perhaps specifically Humphrey Bogart movies: they use "shocked, shocked" from "Casablanca" at least twice and maybe thrice (but never credit it).