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you have to find a good translation, otherwise what is the point?
Like most poetry, this is filled with nuance, and if the translation does not pick up on that... not only is it a slog, but you don't get a lot of the meaning of enjoyment.

you have to find a good translation, otherwise what is the point?
Like most poetry, this is filled with nuance, and if the translation does not pick up on that... not only is it a slog, but you don't get a lot of the meaning of enjoyment.

Omga Darcy just proposed!!! So exciting! "How ardently i admire and love you"

I'm getting into the thick of the book now; Elizabeth is about to meet Lady de Bourgh and all the action with Mr Darcy is imminent :D can't wait.

Reading this for the second time and already spotting clues to the plot

I'm a bit wary of this book I was given as part of a citizenship award. I don't know how interesting it will be to follow one man for eleven months :-/ aw well at least It has a cure for blisters

I've lost the book again... just can't get into this one :/

:D M.Emmanuel serves well to amuse me where other characters have bored

:D M.Emmanuel serves well to amuse me where other characters have bored

Ok, so I get that the book isn't about the plot but Lucy's mental process, and I'm trying to pay more attention to the descriptions... But it gets so tedious sometimes. Gah!

Bah! This book is intolerably slow, with nothing moving it along. Boring! But I must read it only because it was written by Charlotte Bronte

The contrast at the very beginning of chapter three is quite amazing; we're taken from a fantasy-like world and promptly submerged in a very real, very harsh place. "Or stray in the marshes, by false lights beguiled" this is exactly what happens much later; that whole "ballad" could be the TL:DR version of 'Jane Eyre'. This chapter is when the story starts trundling along. And I can't help but adore the apothecary.

The second chapter gives us insight into how life was like at Gateshead for Jane. She is isolated (as implied with the brilliant bird imagery in chapter one), lonely and abhorred. But for what? And how can Jane; a ten year old comprehend why? The writing in this chapter highlights the difference between now and when it was written; the words are the same, but they way they're used is so wonderfully out of place.

Pulled out of boarding school because there a pig

I've been sucked in; gonna read the book the whole way through. What about John Reed, how gross is he; dingy, unwholesome, bilious, bleared. The boy is disgusting. The parallels with Harry Potter are obvious; both parents died, was left on the hands on aunt (aunt & uncle) who grudgingly agreed to raise them as their own. They don't, and there's an older cousin who abuses them and gets away with it. Who h

I'm reading this book for the fifty billionest time ever. I'm eighteen, probably first read it at sixteen and its been my favourite book since. I can't decide whether to read the whole thing again, or just my favourite parts :-/ (which are with Mr Rochester) aw well. We'll see.