Yes I am. You heard me right.
I have the Vintage Classics edition, paperback, with the red spine, so it matches my copies of The Pickwick Papers, Pride & Prejudice and other classics.
And, of course, Wuthering Heights for dessert, as a literary palate-cleanser, if you will.
They say the world is full of cat people and dog people. I say AW is full of Jane Eyre people and Wuthering Heights people. No prizes for guessing which side I'm on.
So why am I reading this book again if I know I won't enjoy it? Well I've never read the two novels back to back and this time around, I want my second read-through of JE to be an examination of why I don't like it. A fairly easy question to answer on the surface -- a bigamist being portrayed as a romantic hero, whereas Heathcliff doesn't pretend to be anything other than a raging asshat in WH.
But there must be reasons why JE has endured, and I must be able to find something in it I like. Jane's character. Her humour, her loyalty, her strength?
Wish me luck. This will be my second read of JE and my third of WH. I'm reading them in this order so the thought of violence, hatred and passion will get me through a book about a nutty woman in the attic being usurped by a plain, self-righteous governess.
I could be persuaded to watch the film when it's out on DVD here, though. I mean, Michael Fassbender? Hell yeah!
I'm going in. *quakes*
PS: Poll's just for fun. No fighting! If only Fass had played Heathcliff; all would have been right with the world. *sigh*
I have the Vintage Classics edition, paperback, with the red spine, so it matches my copies of The Pickwick Papers, Pride & Prejudice and other classics.
And, of course, Wuthering Heights for dessert, as a literary palate-cleanser, if you will.
They say the world is full of cat people and dog people. I say AW is full of Jane Eyre people and Wuthering Heights people. No prizes for guessing which side I'm on.
So why am I reading this book again if I know I won't enjoy it? Well I've never read the two novels back to back and this time around, I want my second read-through of JE to be an examination of why I don't like it. A fairly easy question to answer on the surface -- a bigamist being portrayed as a romantic hero, whereas Heathcliff doesn't pretend to be anything other than a raging asshat in WH.
But there must be reasons why JE has endured, and I must be able to find something in it I like. Jane's character. Her humour, her loyalty, her strength?
Wish me luck. This will be my second read of JE and my third of WH. I'm reading them in this order so the thought of violence, hatred and passion will get me through a book about a nutty woman in the attic being usurped by a plain, self-righteous governess.
I could be persuaded to watch the film when it's out on DVD here, though. I mean, Michael Fassbender? Hell yeah!
I'm going in. *quakes*
PS: Poll's just for fun. No fighting! If only Fass had played Heathcliff; all would have been right with the world. *sigh*
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