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Manga Classics: Jane Eyre
by Crystal S. Chan, Charlotte Brontë
I am so bad at writing reviews of classics. It's like the moment a bunch of other, more important people decide "yep, this is a Good Book, this is a Classic Work of Literature™", my brain goes "well, I'm out."
But, after trying hard to scrounge up some Opinions on Jane Eyre, here they are:
— The writing is nice! I know it's what makes the book hard to get through for some people, but I did enjoy it (mostly, at least. The good thing about superfluous writing is that it's, you know, superfluous. If you get tired of it, you can usually skip a couple of paragraphs without missing anything. Which I did occasionally.)
— I don't, technically, like Rochester, but because I loved the writing all the declarations of love were beautiful anyway. If you'd told me I would feel this way before I started reading it I probably wouldn't have believed you.
— I noticed Jane's explanation about how she's always on the extreme: either completely defiant, or completely obedient. But I didn't actually expect to see so much of the latter, given how much the introduction to this edition waxed poetic about Jane's defiant nature. I really get that little note about how Jane does appear weirdly subservient at times now. It's like, hon, St. John's evil. Stop doing whatever he wants??
But, after trying hard to scrounge up some Opinions on Jane Eyre, here they are:
— The writing is nice! I know it's what makes the book hard to get through for some people, but I did enjoy it (mostly, at least. The good thing about superfluous writing is that it's, you know, superfluous. If you get tired of it, you can usually skip a couple of paragraphs without missing anything. Which I did occasionally.)
— I don't, technically, like Rochester, but because I loved the writing all the declarations of love were beautiful anyway. If you'd told me I would feel this way before I started reading it I probably wouldn't have believed you.
— I noticed Jane's explanation about how she's always on the extreme: either completely defiant, or completely obedient. But I didn't actually expect to see so much of the latter, given how much the introduction to this edition waxed poetic about Jane's defiant nature. I really get that little note about how Jane does appear weirdly subservient at times now. It's like, hon, St. John's evil. Stop doing whatever he wants??