Jane Eyre

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Summary: A great romance novel which is full of surprises!!!!
Review: This book might have been a little boring in the begining, but then it kept getting better. It really made you wonder how things are going to turn out. It's a really good love story and not in any way cheesy. It also has a bit of mystery to it. I thought it was good. Even though I had to read it for school, if I knew about this book before, I'd read it outside of school.

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Summary: Hard to close
Review: I just love Jane Eyre! She begins off as an orphanted plain not very pretty, bright and shy girl. Then turns around completely. A very bright novel with a slow but sure plot, so you can see and read the development of 20yr old little girl Jane into a woman her age. Highly recommend you to read this classic.

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Summary: THIS is great English Literature
Review: A touching novel of a poor orphant blossoming into an intelligent governess, falling in love, falling for the wrong reason. Then just when you think it would never happen, Jane Eyre finds true love.

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Summary: Jane is boring
Review: I don't mean the book is boring, I mean the character Jane. So she's a governess, whoopie! Nah, the job outlook of this great classic is one that we can leave out of prints, but her relationships with that brash flirtatious old man is one I have always enjoyed. If you like classic romances, that aren't full of all that Sandra Brown lust junk, read Jane Eyre, it's a very classy and elegant read. Looks impressive to read in public too!

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Summary: Slow moving, feminist book.
Review: I thought this was one of the slowest moving books I have ever read. Mainly focused on "romance" and unappearant drama. The ending to this book is also very predictable, I won't say it here because that will give it away. If this book had an unknown date and author I'd of thought it was another one of those trashy "love" novels written by Danielle Steel. Pure crap. The only reason I can find that this novel my even be remotely considered a classic is because it was written by a woman and it is Victorian.

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Summary: Meek shy squeaking girl into an obsessed manlover
Review: Jane may be a meek, rather plain, dull young girl...not to mention shy and quiet. But in the end it's amazing and awning to see what happens to this shy one, she becomes an obsessed fixataed lover who will do anything to be with her lover.

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Summary: a young woman's book that transcends feminism and dogma
Review: I first read this book when I was ten and reread it every decade as a special treat to myself. It is one of the great classics of English literature. It is, essentially, a Cinderella story, and I STRONGLY recommend it as an andidote to the Woman-Hear-Me-Roar (or is it "Girl Power"?) stuff being pushed on young ladies nowadays as a means to making the sex strong. The story begins when the heroine, Jane Eyre, is a young orphan of about nine, and follows her through school and her career as a governess in a wealthy but mysterious man's home. She falls in love, learns of an impediment to her immediate gratification, does the right thing and suffers for her pains, but in the end is rewarded for her suffering. Very irrelevant to the late twentieth century, obviously. Charlotte Bronte (the author) is frquently encountered around the same time in life one encounters Dickens--youth--but, like Dickens, she most definitely wrote for adults. Therefore, the book is probably a difficult read for all but the most tenacious middle schooler, but as it begins from the very real, very painful point of view of a powerless child, it has a good hook to draw in the young reader. Its literary style is Romantic, with the liberal use of semi-colons, inverted sentences, and detailed descriptions. This book is a MUST for all well-educated young ladies--the next step after Little Women and before the Jane Austen novels. And sorry for the gender stereotyping; I'm sure there are boys and men out there who read this book and loved it, but I never met one.

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Summary: Fiery Fiesty Woman
Review: Another priceless impassioned Bronte novel, Jane Eyre is the story of a whispy governess and her attachment to her arrogant handsome employer. A great fiction filled with actions and subplots, a telltale story about a meak woman with a fiery soul.

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Summary: Finest of all of English Literature
Review: Still worthy all these years, it's not hard to understand why Jane Eyre has always been known and credited towards being one of the finest novels in English literature. It's not hard to see that nearly all the contemporary romances out there now have taken after this novel's sweaping ways and twisted crude plots. A classic love story, a classic novel.

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Summary: Zzzzzz....
Review: I suppose it was an ok book... It probably had a good moral and all that stuff, but there was about 150 pages of excess crap that I, personally, didn't care about! It was just a teeny bit to long.....!