Comments on: Review: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte

By: Irina

Irina — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:18:55 +0000

I love the book. It seems that my relationship with it is quite a common story – I read it first as a child and then re-read it many times while I grew up, but I never get tired of it. What’s less common, I’ve always associated myself with Jane – there’s an unmistakable likeness in our characters, despite all the differences in our backgrounds. Perhaps, that’s the reason why I think of Jane as a real person rather than a character in a book.

I regard “Jane Eyre” as one of the best books ever written.
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By: Ariel

Ariel — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:12:38 +0000

First of all, semi-colons=sublime. Absolutely.

And yes, Jane Eyre is ever delightful, endlessly rereadable. My favorite moment has got to be the scene in which Rochester dresses in drag to pretend to be the fortune teller, just to have an opportunity to peek under Jane’s normal reserve. Seriously, wonderfully weird. And almost never discussed in conversations about the book. In fact, it may only be rivaled for weirdness by the moment in Mansfield Park in which a character – a JANE AUSTEN character – tells a joke about the Navy being filled with “Rears and Vices” (meaning Admirals, of course!).

Have you ever read Margaret Drabble’s “The Waterfall”? It is my favorite of her novels, and it contains quite an ingenious reading of “Jane Eyre” by the main character, who is obsessed with the fact that Jane *needs* Rochester to be physically maimed at the end of the novel in order to recalibrate the power structure of their relationship.
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By: S. Melville

S. Melville — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:26:06 +0000

Love this book! It’s one that’s grown with me — I think I read it for the first time when I was 13. The writing is truly amazing, Romanticism possibly at its best.

Also, that’s the copy I have. Go Dover Thrift!

By: Care

Care — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:25:28 +0000

Reading this only makes me question if I really ever have read this – I know the story oh-too-well! Perhaps this is a fabulous book to try reading now/soon (again or not). Thank you, wonderful post; I enjoyed your thoughts very much.
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By: EL Fay

EL Fay — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:10:25 +0000

I think the genius of Jane Eyre is that there is SO MUCH going on with the plot that the whole thing could’ve been just so convoluted. But Bronte not only pulls it off, she writes a masterpiece.
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By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:34:06 +0000

What a cool appreciation of Jane Eyre! I love it too, so much, and I agree that The Eyre Affair is total enjoyment as well.
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By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:05:24 +0000

Did they do a zombie Jane Eyre as well? I thought that it was only Pride and Prejudice -- and Sense and Sensibility and Sea-Monsters is out there as well, I think. Doom, doom....

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:56:01 +0000

Ta for this.

At the moment too many people I know are reading the version with the bloody zombies (aargh!)
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By: zibilee

zibilee — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:08:59 +0000

I think I am the only person in the world who hasn’t yet read this book, so I only skimmed your review. I am going to be reading this very soon, and I will definitely be bookmarking this page to come back to your review and see what you thought if it!
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By: Kristen M.

Kristen M. — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:42:35 +0000

My mom first handed me this book when I was maybe twelve and it’s so interesting to experience the story in a different way each time I read it again. When I was young, I thought the beginning was the saddest thing I had ever read. But in my last reading, I was much more heated about the class snobbery.

By the way, I just might have read The Eyre Affair as many times and I’ve read Jane Eyre now. I love that book too!
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