tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723919362465373678.post8333445908721257523..comments2024-03-17T04:16:13.173-05:00Comments on Spootville: Jane Austen's BooksTimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17839929976191484047noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723919362465373678.post-36694693080466433522013-06-05T20:53:42.933-05:002013-06-05T20:53:42.933-05:00I could be mixing books, but wasn't Jane Eyre ...I could be mixing books, but wasn't Jane Eyre the one where an orphan girl ends up marrying a guy who has his crazy wife locked up in one wing of his house? Then the crazy wife burns the house down.<br /><br />And they lived happily ever after, in a burnt out house, and they guy is blind and crippled thanks to the fire.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17839929976191484047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723919362465373678.post-60601957906614531752013-06-05T15:06:46.910-05:002013-06-05T15:06:46.910-05:00What's wrong with Jane Eyre? I recall liking i...What's wrong with <i>Jane Eyre</i>? I recall liking it when I first read it, or at least finding it more tolerable than the other chick-lit of that period. <i>Wuthering Heights</i> is the really bad classic romance novel; I couldn't keep track of a single thing that happened in that book, save for a vicious anti-American crack Bronte makes in one of the early chapters.Matt Forneyhttp://mattforney.com/noreply@blogger.com