One of best books ever written
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This is one of my favourite books and one I constantly re-read. I love all the characters, especially the way they are neither beautiful or perfect people. But the main reason I love this book is the character of Rochester and the way he loves Jane. He is definitely my favourite hero of all time.
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Jane Eyre
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My mom recommended that I read this book because it is a classic romance and I love Pride and Prejudice and Emma which are the same genre. My mom was right.
Jane is a likable character because she is so brave and head strong and through out the whole second half of the book I was mentally screaming at her to go back to Mr Rochester. I mean, who cares that he is already married.
A bit frustrating how I didn't get what I wanted until the last few chapters and how she was actually thinking of marrying St John.
Recommend it highly.
Now all I need to do is to watch the film.
By Nicole, aged 15.
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the best love lines in history?
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I've just read and re-read and re-read again this fabulous book after many years alongside the Wide Sargasso Sea for a book club I belong to.
Try out page 250 for some of the best love lines ever written - who couldn't love Rochester after his proposal, even if he plays games with Jane? I'd forgotten how humourous and fun some of the dialogue is between them - this is at heart a happy and hopeful book, and not half as gothic as Wuthering Heights. Jane's best words are the speech she says in her own head 'I care for myself...'.This is a female character who is unafraid to love passionately but maintains her integrity and keeps her faith and humanity intact by the end of the book. Ditch the cynic and let the words flow over you.
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My all time favourtie
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This was the first "grown up" book that i ever read and i still re-read it now 13 years on. It is a tale that has everything you could want from a novel and truly is a classic. Unlike her sister emily, charlotte bronte does not bog down the story with too many words so this is more readable than the complicated (albeit brilliant) wuthering heights. I did not take to charlotte bronte's other novels but this one i would recommend to everyone. If you have not read this book then i feel you are missing out.
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not very good
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After hearing all the talk about this book i was expecting something a bit more pleasing to the mind.
Jane seemed like a perfectly nice girl, but she has an annoying way of thinking that she is the one with all the brains in the book.
I did not like the way that charlotte bronte wrote the order of events that happened in the story.
All in all, very dissapointing.
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