<does very happy dance> I finished Jane Eyre!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[VampiresWalkin]

I have been trying to finish/read that damned book since 1996!

I will never love it. I found it hard going, but I am so pleased

One thing though - how the hell did that woman not kill herself through lack of self esteem??? When did it stop being acceptable to tell someone to her face that she is ugly/plain etc???

Must be something to do with the period, Pride & Prejudice is full of comments like that.

The book was hard going for me too but the BBC dramatisation was pretty good.

Oh, and I always thought "reader I married him" was from Pride and Prejudice (also on my "to read" list)

Oh no, I've been trying to read it for about the same length of time too. I promised myself I would finish it by the end of this year but it is such hard going. Well done!

It's a great story, isn't it?

Gonna try Wuthering Heights next?

Well done, I found it un-put-down-able, but I felt how you did about Villette. I somehow managed to get through it for my degree but didn't really pay attention and then finally read it again properly last year.

Wuthering Heights I have done, but it was when I was pregnant with DD and I tend to forget everything I read when pregnant (to the extent one book I bought, read, and gave to Psycho... and she told me she already had it and I had borrowed it )

oooh well done you

not that it is one on my 'to read' list.

not sure actually if I could be classed as a reader sometimes.......the only classics I seem to like are childrens ones. all my other reading material seem to be frivolous books. well, murdering and death and destruction frivolous books. maybe I really am twisted like DH claims.....

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights always come near the top of lists of favourite novels but how many people do you think have actually read them from start to finish? I have read both and would say they are very hard going, so hard it took me 5 years to finish Jane Eyre. I only managed WH all the way through because it was an A Level set text.

JE was my GCSE set text - d'you know I watched THREE different films, and all of them pissed about with the order of the plot so I got caught out at school .

Off to find the thread that inspired me to try again - people must have told me why they like it so much.

I did Jane Eyre and Far from the Madding Crowd for my O Levels and we were told NOT to watch them on tv for that very reason!
I lusted after Toby Stephens when he was Mr Rochester!!!

I was trying to avoid readin the bloody book