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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Guess what I've never read, but am going to start reading tomorrow on the bus ride home?
Jane Eyre
Now, I *hated* Wuthering Heights. But I'm going to be reading Jane Eyre with an entirely different mindset: I know it's the book where almost all the Gothic novel clichés come from, and I'm probably going to spend the entire time thinking of it as high parody/black comedy.
The real reason I finally decided to read it, though? Because I got a copy of the version illustrated by Dame Darcy.
Jilli, I have to know what you think of Jane Eyre when you're done. I personally love it. I think it is much different from Wuthering Heights, so I hope hating the latter doesn't ruin your enjoyment of the former.
I saw that in a bookstore the other day, Jilli!
I also think it's very, very different from Wuthering Heights. Although I think I like Wuthering Heights better. So that might mean you love Jane Eyre.
I hated WH but adored Jane Eyre when I was a young teen. Except for what I called the boring part. So I'd just always skip that part.
hated Wuthering heights but while I don't love Jane Eyre - it is a very different and much better book
I just read a book called Report Card A kid's book that talks about the evils of standerized testing. odd.
Oh, I love Jane Eyre (completely unable to type that as anything but Jayne the first time), and I hate Wuthering Heights. Jane is a great character, and so much more likeable than anyone in WH.
Jilli, I have to know what you think of Jane Eyre when you're done. I personally love it. I think it is much different from Wuthering Heights, so I hope hating the latter doesn't ruin your enjoyment of the former.
I may eventually re-read Wuthering Heights to give it another try. While I say I've read it, I've actually skimmed it. My main problem with it is that it gave me the overwhelming urge to slap both Cathy and Heathcliff.
I suspect that if I go back and re-read Wuthering Heights with the mindset that it's also a comedy/parody of Gothic novel conventions, I'd probably enjoy it a lot more.
I saw that in a bookstore the other day, Jilli!
I admit, it was Dame Darcy's art that sold me on it. She's so deliciously loopy and over-the-top Gothic Victorian.
My main problem with it is that it gave me the overwhelming urge to slap both Cathy and Heathcliff.
From what I recall, that's pretty much why I didn't like it. As Dana says, Jane's a great character.
I having been eyeing that edition of Jane Eyre for a while. I think I have 3 copies of the book already, what's one more..