I have to read this in English and because I refus to read this piece of *beep* book I'm failing the class.
shareno accounting for taste... it is a very good book. a great movie and a fantastic musical. I know that it is tough when you HAVE to read somthing for class. but do not take it out on JANE EYRE
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so sad that kids today do not appreciate good literature.
shareAfter almost two years I still hate Jane Eyre
,but who cares.
After almost two years I still hate Jane Eyre
I always hated everything I "had" to read for literature classes. Now, older and somewhat wiser, I choose to read of my own volition and surprise myself at what I now enjoy. As another poster says, "Don't beat yourself up over it.".
I hope you did what was needed to end your class on solid footing.
Who knows, in 10 - 20 years and with a different perspective, you might try JANE EYRE again and love it, value it, and understand why it has been in print and so widely read for so long. And, if not, it is not the end of the world.
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Actually, I hate it not because it's bad, but because I was forced to read it. F*&ck twilight though.
,but who cares.
You should give it a chance. It's a beautiful story.
shareI so much feel close to the topic starter! I always loved reading BUT not that one single book I was forced to read for class - and was forced to read in one single day! I never forgot how bad it was!!!
But still, Jane Eyre has so many things to say, it's a pity it had to be like that for you. I really hope you'll get over it and love the book sooner or later)
To be fair, I find the book very long-winded and tedious with Charlotte Brontë's endless ramblings... but I LOVE the story and the characters. :)
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Some people have very strong rationale for hating good literature. My grandmother hated Jane Eyre because she thought it was too much like her own life. She was placed in a boarding school similar to Lowood after her father abandoned the family and her mother went insane due to bipolar disorder, and her little sister died of tuberculosis. Like Jane, she was considered very plain and was given a difficult time by her peers for it. Reading Jane Eyre hurt her too much because of the memories.
While I don't hate Jane Eyre, I find it very hard to read only because the courtship between Jane and Rochester eerie mirrored a relationship I had with an abusive first love. At the time he and I were together, I love Jane Eyre...but now, I'm not so sure.
Bigger point is, you don't always know why people hate "good" literature, and they're entitled to feel that way. Granted, the OP is a little extreme, but they're allowed to have an opinion, nevertheless.
You don't have to love it, but you will love it if you understand it well enough. I used to hate certain literary materials I had to read for my Chinese class, but when I finally left school I began to find them interesting and useful.
Maybe I was a bit luckier because I was not forced to read the novel at school. I remember reading a children's version in Chinese when I was little, and a simple English reader version in the eighth grade. And now I finally decided to read the whole original version, because I have found, from reading other fictions, that as you grow older and if you read and think about it over and over again, you will understand the story more and love it more!
I often wondered why at that time when I read fictions in English and in Chinese, I only thought about what might happen next, and whether it will have a happy ending, and never tried to learn anything from it. Perhaps it was an escape of the school troubles I had. Perhaps it was because I thought then it was "only a tale" and was not very serious about it. Even when I wrote book reports they were always summaries without analyses. So unless I loved the stories very, very much, I wouldn't really remember the story so well, and I found I actually missed lot. A classic is not just made for readers to enjoy the story, but for them to really learn about life.
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I was blessed that Jane Eyre was the first book that my mother read to us that was a "chapter book. Given our ages, she must have truncated the story a bit in places, but fostered a love for it in our young minds and hearts. Re-reading it as an adult, I have a degree of sympathy that anyone should be forced to read this book against their will. There are, indeed, portions of the book that seem endless (the whole St. John subplot being a good exmaple). But it must be viewed holistically and in context to the period in which it was written. Only when one has an appreciation for that will a person be able to wade through it with immense satisfaction. It's the language, you see...
shareI detest "Wuthering Heights." The writing style seems so impersonal, and without a drop of humor. I hated reading it in school, picked it up 10 years later, and again fell asleep.
It's not that I don't understand it, because I wrote about it for the essay portion of my SAT exam and scored highly. I just Really REALLY dislike it.
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