This is a beautiful story - the best romance ever written. But don't let that put you off - Jane Eyre is as passionate and wilful a character as you could ever wish for. Written in the first-person, Jane Eyre is both compelling and exciting. You haven't truly read anything if you haven't read this!
This is a fast-paced story (not as wordy as people are inclined to believe), which is impossible to put down after you have begun to read it! This edition of the book is a comfortable book to read, with reasonably big type, although it makes the book fatter. The cover is in a very romantic style, which may not suit everybody, but I would definately reccomend the layout inside. There isn't a 'dictionary' at the back with difficult to understand ... Read More:
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This is a beautiful story - the best romance ever written. But don't let that put you off - Jane Eyre is as passionate and wilful a character as you could ever wish for. Written in the first-person, Jane Eyre is both compelling and exciting. You haven't truly read anything if you haven't read this!
This is a fast-paced story (not as wordy as people are inclined to believe), which is impossible to put down after you have begun to read it! This edition of the book is a comfortable book to read, with reasonably big type, although it makes the book fatter. The cover is in a very romantic style, which may not suit everybody, but I would definately reccomend the layout inside. There isn't a 'dictionary' at the back with difficult to understand ... Read More:
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This book is a Puffin Classic and it really is a true unforgettable and terrific tale. This tale is very moving and that is why I really like it! It is by the author of Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen! I thoroughly enjoyed it - the rating that I would give it is definitely 9/ 10, and think that older children aged from 10 - 15, like me, would like it and that those who were younger would not really understand (or get pleasure from reading) it very much. Here is the storyline: Elinor and Marianne are both sisters, who are (strangely) immensely different but they are always there for each other and their sister-in-law as well.
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This book is a Puffin Classic and it really is a true unforgettable and terrific tale. This tale is very moving and that is why I really like it! It is by the author of Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen! I thoroughly enjoyed it - the rating that I would give it is definitely 9/ 10, and think that older children aged from 10 - 15, like me, would like it and that those who were younger would not really understand (or get pleasure from reading) it very much. Here is the storyline: Elinor and Marianne are both sisters, who are (strangely) immensely different but they are always there for each other and their sister-in-law as well.
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This is one of the most gripping books I have read in a long time. I could not put it down! It is an intense, yet wonderful book of a lesbian trying to find her place and love in the world. She battles against her own mother even to find a piece of happiness. Well worth a read for real romantics and anyone who knows what it is like to be in love.
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If I didn't have to read this for one of my modules this year, I wouldn't have continued past page 50. Although I loved 'Oranges...' and all of the short-stories of Winterson's I have encountered, there wasn't much to like about 'The.PowerBook'.
The characters are unlikeable, uninteresting and unengaging. Although the elements of repetition in the lovers' meetings are obviously intentional, they make for tiresome reading. The long passages of bare dialogue are unrealistic and I was left at times not knowing or caring whose lines were whose.
The book is crammed with what are intended to be deep, poetic musings on life and love, but the contrived nuggets of pseudo-wisdom have all the imagery and depth of a collection of fortune-cookies or ... Read More:
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Awesome book, simply awesome to the max. The kind of book that's so thrilling, you can't help but jump in the air and exclaim your glee with extreme volume every other page - indeed, I was thrown off the train for that very reason. I finished reading the book at the station in a feast of jumping and yelling, and I regret nothing.
There are two strong messages in the book, both of which made me very uncomfortable. Firstly, the working classes should put their faith in God rather than trying to bring about social change - particularly through trade unionism. Secondly, whilst the 'masters' should look towards helping their workers and building a relationship of trust, they shouldn't try too hard to feed them if times were bad.
With the exception of Mary and her father John, the characters in the book are pretty much black and white - Jem is good and decent who is allowed a moment's dark thoughts before quickly becoming good and decent again and Henry Carson is a wrong 'un from the start - vain, silly and happy to destroy Mary's honour and character without thinking of the consequences (all of ... Read More:
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Cowboys in Texas. Hot erotic romance. Bit of an oxymoron? Yes. But is it true? Yes. After Brokeback Mountain, gay cowboys may seem a bit of a cliche or at least bandwagon jumping, [and that may well be the case] but it makes a change from the usual staple fare of gay novels, the teenage coming out story. Pacily written, with steamy, nay, explicit sex scenes, [tell me how does a woman know what gay sex can or should be like so accurately?] and yet still romantic. Worth reading? Definitely. High literature? No. The plot is predictable, and some of the characters would strain to be called sketchy, but the main characters are fairly well developed and the pacing is good. The tension is maintained throughout, even though one knows the outcome before the end, in fact probably before the ... Read More:
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I bought this book as I loved the film "Something Borrowed", which is fabulous. Sadly, the book is very poor indeed - the characters are really self-obsessed and wearisome, and the story (totally unlike the very grown-up and sparky film) is childish and namby-pamby. I can't imagine what other reviewers have seen in it. Chick lick should be - and certainly used to be - a whole lot better than this.
If you want to ask for trouble then, I'd advise giving this one a miss and buying the film instead.
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