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Aug 27, 2015
Heather L
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it was amazing
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I was inspired to pick this up for a third reading after finishing The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde. It had been a long time since the first and second readings, and I am happy to report my opinion of it did not change.
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I am finding it hard to review classics. Everyone knows what they are about. So it is not really a review that serves the same purpose as those for new releases. This one will be more geared to those people who have never read the book and are thinking about it.
I never had to read this book in school. As part of my reading bucket list challenge, I decided to read it. Well...I will have to say that I would never read this book just for pleasure.
This is one of the slowest books I have ever read. P ...more
I never had to read this book in school. As part of my reading bucket list challenge, I decided to read it. Well...I will have to say that I would never read this book just for pleasure.
This is one of the slowest books I have ever read. P ...more
This book was a "turning point" book for me. The quality of writing made me realize I was missing out when I read a poorly written book. I read this for the first time when I was about twelve -- from that day on I was always hunting for a good book.
This book clearly has a huge cult following, which I don't completely understand. It is excellent, but why the hype about this particular book? I don't have any good answer. Maybe just because it is a darn good story, with lots of twists.
I admire Char ...more
This book clearly has a huge cult following, which I don't completely understand. It is excellent, but why the hype about this particular book? I don't have any good answer. Maybe just because it is a darn good story, with lots of twists.
I admire Char ...more
Read it (loved it) in HS, Read again as I approach my 50th year and all I can say is... The writing is gorgeous. But Jane Eyre herself as a charactor was so meek and self-effacing. I keep hearing her calling ROchester "Her Master" and "Sir". It just felt rather mroe 50 shades of Grey than I expected. I'm reading Middlemarch at the same time, and I can see the beginnnings of feminist agitation there clearly, and oerhaps Jane Eyre in her subservience is also an agitator, in terms of "is this what
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Loved it. Have 3 diff. eds.
Oct 17, 2010
Ashley
marked it as to-read
