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Summary: try it, you might like it!
Review: I read this about two years ago, and was initially put off by it's length and the fact it was 'a classic'. Really, though, once you get into it you are in for a treat. The book is an emotional rollacoaster, and though it was written more than a hundred and fifty years ago (I think) it still heldgreat resonance for me; I too could identify with Jane Eyre's dilema over the cerbral duty prescribed by her mind and the emotinal neccessity calling out from her heart. The chemistry between her and Rochester blows away anything you'd see on the cinema screen, and the passages where they are together practically set the pages on fire. I guess it's down to the readers temperment in the end, wether or not they emaphise, and the style is nuanced and therefore could be thought overly wordy ocaissionally, but if you like reading this is such a good book to try. Some people say it's the best novel ever written in english; I'd be inclined to believe them.
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Summary: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Review: Alright, let me preface this by saying that I am a student. A student who believes that books can be a wonderful medium for ideas and emotion.Having said that... This is garbage!!! The main character spends, nay, wastes, more pages then I can count describing how every bad thing that happens to her is the worst thing that has ever happened to anyone. None of the other characters have more than one or two qualities, and some of them are very unrealistic (a girl who feels guilt that she thinks about her home? i don't really think so). I can't really say that there were points when i wanted to put this book down, only because i felt like that the entire time i was reading it. I am now writing this review instead of doing a writing assignment on it because i can't tolerate it any further. Avoid this one if you can (unless you are a girl, in which case there is a chance that this will "touch your heart")
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Summary: Maybe I'm too young to 'get it.' All I know is I hated it.
Review: If you sent JANE EYRE to a publisher today, the response would be, in fancy wording, "Um, sorry, this is too long and too weird. Boring. Sorry, please try again." I'm 13, so perhaps I'm too young to grasp it, but I enjoyed other books which are supposed to be similar, such as Pride and Prejudice. In the 13-year-old vernacular, here's what was going through my mind: Ew! Why the heck would she marry that weird, bad-tempered, hairy scary man? If I found out that my fiance had kept his insane first wife in the attic and not told me, I'd file for divorce! He's bossy, unreasonable and mean. Why'd he pretend to wanna marry Miss Ingram? I guess the scandalousness of a governess falling in love with her employer is supposed to keep you interested, but really, it's dead boring. It's an okay story, but written so dully that it's ruined. Why wasn't Jane suspicous?
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Summary: Heartbreaking...but you'll live
Review: The novel is a compassionate one in which different feelings and characteristics occur at different times but all show different versions of Jane--which is quite impressive. The language is beautifully woven, showing the character's feelings and giving way to shocking occurrances. The tale is not quite original but it does strike the heart--showing society at the time while weaving the tale--the plots just grasp you harder and harder within each chapter--like glue, if you don't try to get out of it, you can't get out--carefully developing the plot with questions, the language, and subtle events that makes the book--not quite original--but giving it a place of its own in the romance genre, getting better and better every time. It is really quite the satisfying experience. Personally, I--not being a picky person--don't have a problem with the printing. The story is enough to change your life if you can be easily shaken by such fictional romance.
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Summary: Jane Eyre....for kids?
Review: This is a really great book, however not for young kids. i read this book when i was in 7th grade. Being above my reading level i thought i could handle a book like it. To my dismay this book did not statisfy me. To a girl in 7th grade i found it hard to relate to and very wordy. I reread it this year i am a senior in High school and i found my interest in the book had changed i found ways in which i could relate. bottom line...dont make your kids read it!
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Summary: Hard to put down
Review: This book, like my title says, was hard for me to put down. I just became so inthralled in the book and its characters.
You become, early on, compassionate to Jane's pain, hopeful with Jane's encounter with Mr. Rochester, afraid for her when she meets with a ghastly face, and so on and so forth.
At times I almost didn't want Jane with Mr. Rochester, but in the end he won me over. Their love is unique, it was very nurturing and longing, but love nonetheless.
I recommend this book to anyone who likes a good love story with a little suspense all throughout.
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Summary: A classic
Review: I have read this book several times, on different
occasions, and ech time I've enjoyed it immensely. This is one of those classic stories that will stay with you
forever. It appears simple on the surface, but underneath it
are well-thought out passages. Bronte is a superb artist, weaving her two main characters, each suffering in their life, into a tapestry of love. Each so different from each other, yet each needing the other
desparately. I recommend this book highly.
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Summary: Ugh.
Review: Boring, boring book. I wish my profs hadn't made me read this. It has tarnished my writing ability. Now I will have to read some Peake to revive it.
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Summary: Immature and uneven.
Review: One friend who prefers Charlotte Bronte to Jane Austen told me she would feel claustrophobic in the latter's world. And it does seem to be the common view that Jane Eyre is more liberated and complex than Austen's leading female characters. However, that is not my view. First, though, I must give the author credit for creating a childhood so realistic, so painfully vivid, that one cannot help but be moved by the first chapters. Jane Eyre the child is the quintessential homely loner in the corner with her book. Immediately one feels Jane Eyre *is* Charlotte Bronte, but it is terribly dangerous to take the autobiographical route in the discussion of a work. So this is no critique of the author's own life. Jane Eyre, however, becomes a self-righteous do-gooder, and the narrator provides all the stepping stones for her preachy little journey. She is wonderfully kind to the people who are horrible to her-- but we are oh-so aware of how much *better* she is than these ogres. And we know someday-- according to something in the Scriptures-- she shall be rewarded. Of course, a handsome, refined man of Jane Austen's world is not her final reward. She yearns for a rough, rugged, physically unattractive man-- though he of course has his eyes on a pretty young woman. This is a fantastic Romantic tale which may always win over teenage readers. It's just unfortunate that Bronte's moral view and understanding of human nature did not extend beyond this adolescent world. For instance, we must have the monster in the attic who was once the beautiful temptress from a sunny isle. This heavy-handed way with moral imagery is a sad weakness in Bronte's novel, a novel which begins with so much promise when the heroine is a tortured young girl. As a matter of fact, this book is the only instance in all of classic literature in which I prefer the movie (with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine) to the original. On the screen we do miss Bronte's beautiful language, though like most novelists of the 19th century, she doesn't know when to leave well enough alone. Many readers enjoy the Gothic darkness of her language-- and imagery-- but clarity is the key to prose, no matter how many would wallow in a murky stew of sound and meaning. This is a Classic, for once that label is applied nothing will remove it. Yet for me it is a classic example of an inadequate style and moral point of view, both typical of Bronte's era.
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Summary: Jane Eyre is a fascinating role model
Review: Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is a heroine that possesses independence, intelligence, and inner beauty. This is a fascinating novel that goes beyond the ordinary, trite, misconceptions of "love." Jane Eyre's experiences prevail upon the reader so strongly, that one feels as if one has learned a great deal upon finishing this novel. It is also much better written than most modern-day novels we see today. If you enjoy other novels from Emily Bronte or Jane Austen, you will no doubt enjoy this one.
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