Jane Eyre

[jiacinto]

Did any of you have to read this book?

[NightTrain]

1. I read it voluntarily when I was in my late 20s

And I liked it quite a bit.

[soupkitchen]

2. It's maybe my favorite book

[latebloomer]

3. Loved it!

Great book!

[jiacinto]

4. I hated it

nt

[JitterbugPerfume]

5. why

did you hate it?

[Cleita]

7. It's probably because it was a forerunner of our

present day romance novels. It's more of a chick thing than a guy thing. I had to read it in high school, but I rather liked the high drama.

[StClone]

6. I'd read it again

Some humor, great word use and grammatical construction -- old English. Obviously a classic for the ages. It's a fictional life story built around the trials and romance of the spunky, smart orphan protagonist.

[politicat]

9. Uh, no... not old English

It was published in 1847. It's modern English.

Old English is Beuowulf - 900 CE. Middle English is Canterbury Tales, 1300. Early Modern English is 1450 to 1650 - Tudors, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Kit Marlowe.

The Brontes are Modern.

Did you mean that it's an old, English novel? That's totally different.... ( and still not entirely accurate, since it's pretty recent on the novel scale of time.)

[StClone]

14. I guess it has some dated

Modes of speaking and noble ideals of romance that made me label it "Old." It is not modern British piece like a John Folwes novel. I know old may come to mean the Bard which is not my aim.

[supernova]

8. Good read

Jane Eyre

I read it in high school. It was a good novel for its time.

[politicat]

10. Read it on my own... 5th grade or so.

There was an excerpt in my reading text in 5th grade. I liked it and read the whole thing and had no problems with it.

Picked it back up in High school and realized it's a lot deeper than I thought.

Picked it up in college again and read it as part of a collection - Austen, Bronte, Wollstonecraft and Kate Chopin. Oh, wow....

Keep with it and read outside materials about the time and place. (Avoid film interps except the BBC miniseries.) Pick up the Eyre Affaire to go with it.

Hell, just turn off the TV and read. It's worth it. Bits of it show up in a ton of popular fiction in one way or another.

[Character Assassin]

11. Well, it's no "A Prayer for Owen Meany"

But then it's not the Nov. 1982 edition of Popular Mechanics, either.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. My sister begged for this book one Christmas

when she was in Jr. High.

She thought it was a horror novel...Jane Eerie.

[stanwyck]

24. Funny! A guy I work with

thought it was "Jane Irie"....he saw the video at Blockbuster and asked me about it the next day. What's that "Jane Irie" movie about?" Must be the Rastafarian version of the Bronte novel. Jane takes a few tokes and only thinks she hears a woman in the attic moaning and wailing.

[Ilsa]

13. Great book.

Even my husband is a fan of the Bronte sisters. We both loved Withering Heights as well.

I also like the Edith Warton novels and Jane Austen.

[mitchum]

15. I had to read it (and later read it for pleasure)

[MissMarple]

16. In high school, on my own, I liked it.

:D Actually, it makes quite an impression on young girls.

[jiacinto]

17. Early 1800s British Literatrue freaks me out

nt

[Ramsey]

18. A great story

I read this book quite voluntarily as a high school student, and have always had mixed feelings about it. That it is very well written and inciteful as to the culture of its day is a given. The message is subtle and insidious though. Along with Rebecca and Wuthering Heights, such stories speak of women drawn to charismatic men who are hiding relationships with "crazy" women, or hiding their own pyschoses. That the villians are disturbed women as well is, well, disturbing. But that the protagonists are strong willed women who know their mind and who thwart the prevailing culture is inspiring. I find these stories to be fascinating microcosms of our society, and examples of strong female protagonists from an era that suppressed female power.

[kskiska]

19. Sort of like

"The Reagans."

[LastKnight]

20. ive been reading it the last few weeks for a Brit Lit Class

it does good for curing my insomnia... seriously, for me its a sleep inducing product.

if you gotta read it or do a report...

http://www.bookrags.com/notes/je/

nice, easy to swallow form of the book, ive been using it since day one and im doin ok on the tests too... sorry to those of you that liked it, but i just cant find anything to like about it.

-LK

[Tinoire]

21. Why do you ask about this book you hate

yet don't participate in a discussion of it? This was one of the most heart-wrenching books my imagination was exposed to as a child because of a childhood separation trauma.

Please find a human being to talk to... Any of the DUers in your area or even a total stranger. Maybe a priest? Seriously Carlos, I don't like seeing you like this. I would prefer you start 10 Green/Dem or Nader-is-vile threads than to see you do this to yourself after everything that has happened recently.

It is YOUR life. You are now an adult. Nobody is going to live your life for you- nobody can. Get a grip of yourself because if you sink, there will be no one there to rescue you. You are an adult now and the main thing about being an adult is that you stand on your own. You will live and die by the decisions you make today because in the end Carlos, your life will be nothing more than the sum of your decisions.

You are not in a good situation either physically or emotionally right now. You MUST take care of both of them at the same time because the cycle downwards can be vicious- like a vortex sucking you in. Get out of it now while you are still young enough and strong enough to do it. Sell some funds or some property if you have to but do something. Think of it as preventative maintenance, an investment for the quality of the rest of your life.

Forget Jane Eyre. Let go of the other night. Let go of the rest of the pain. If you decide to carry it around for the rest of your life, it will hurt only you. Take care ok?

You will be in my prayers tonight.

[Piperay]

22. Yes...

it's a pretty good book and I have seen the movies too, the one with Elizabeth Taylor (when she was a little girl and not the star) and the later one that included George C. Scott and Susan Forsyth.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

23. Seven Saudi Terrorists held me in a room and made me read it

many years ago.