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silver_tiamat

Jane Eyre, Part I

Dec 22, 2010 14:17

Sometimes, I think that I forget just how many books I've read in my lifetime. That number is most assuredly over 2,000. At least. One of the many, many, many books I've read that number over 400 pages is Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre." It depresses me to no end that two of my favorite ladies of the 1800s (Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen), both ( Read more... )

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movie_dancer December 23 2010, 04:40:48 UTC

Oh man! I love, love, loved this book! I read it in a couple of days, which for me is pretty fast. =D I'm glad that you are enjoying it again!

silver_tiamat December 23 2010, 04:59:12 UTC

Yeah. I first read it in high school, for fun, on recommendation from Mrs. Moreland. I had just given a long rant about how I HATED Emma, and how the insipid character of Emma had bothered me so incredibly, and Moreland said that "Not all of the women in books from that time were so bad." And directed me to Jane Eyre. I really was blown out of the water.

Besides, who can resist an Unbeautiful Heroine who finds her happy ending by bending and never breaking? =DDD

millinakoa December 23 2010, 05:39:56 UTC

I saw the preview for that awhile ago and it looked really interesting. =)

silver_tiamat December 23 2010, 06:57:53 UTC

Preview? Did you just say...preview? As in a movie? What blasphemy is this? No movie about Jane Eyre has EVER done it justice. They focus way too much on the Jane+Rochester romance, and forget that this is JANE'S story, not his. And they never get her snarky humor right. Ever. They can't. Not in modern times.

Read the book, or don't bother with the story at all. U_U