Comments on: So I read Jane Eyre…

By: Tracey

Tracey — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:00:28 +0000

This is my favourite book of all time. I first read it as a teenager and was totally unaware of the plot twist. It shocked me and I had to keep reading in the hopes that there would be a happy ending.

The fact that you already knew the secret and how the book ended almost certainly played a part in your not loving the book. I think I would feel pretty much the same and I commend you for even trying as I dont think i would bother.

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By: Jenifer Avery

Jenifer Avery — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:41:24 +0000

SPOILERS LIKE CRAZY.

I’m mad crazy about Jane Eyre. I’m even considering a tattoo. It’s true.

I first read Jane Eyre when I was 15, and to this day I can’t believe Charlotte Bronte got away with that plot. It’s so crazy, so downright hilarious, and yet somehow so delightful. Can you imagine pitching that? Pitching a psycho wife in the attic of a gentleman’s quaint English manor–to say nothing of the fact that he’s the romancee. The blindness! Governess lovin! Running away through the moors! This book has everything. It’s quite frankly the most delicious, dishy classic ever. The happy ending is in the middle!

Foofy, over descriptive, and sometimes ridiculous, yes. Her emphasis on Jane’s ugliness is sometimes just as bad as other authors at this time’s focus on too-perfect ladies. But it’s the only book I know with a passive-aggressive male lead and a balls-to-the-walls governess falling into the weirdest love triangle this side of prim society has ever seen.

It’s hilarious, ridiculous, and so much fun. The romance, in some way, is awful and will never work. It is SO much more than a “classic”, and it’s a helluva lot more than foofy language and bad psychology. This book is MADNESS.

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By: embejo

embejo — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:51:55 +0000

I recently read Jane Eyre too… just because it’s a classic. But I’m so glad I did read it. I loved her strength of character which is somewhat surprising given her terrible childhood. I agree with what you said about it being easy to forget the age of this book. I guess Jane’s strength and independence and dare I say, intelligence would have been all the more impacting for the original readers.

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By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:35:48 +0000

I’m thinking you’re on the right track in your last comment. You have to have a certain mindset to be able to read and enjoy the Bronte sister, Dickens, Austen, Thackery. I love them but my parents, who are both avid readers and very intelligent people, just do not care for them.

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Rebecca @ The Book Lady's Blog — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:47:12 +0000

I’m having a hard time articulating it, but I think what I wanted was to see more of how she changed, rather than just seeing that she changed. I think my issues with this are related to a few things: it’s a byproduct of the time in which Bronte wrote that there’s not a whole lot of internal monologue, and I tend to prefer contemporary fiction—informed by modern psychology—that does explore the process. Not that any of this makes Jane Eyre a bad book; it’s just not the perfect fit for me.