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Jane Eyre
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i love jane eyre but honestly imagine being friends with that bitch. like imagine trying to convince her to leave rochester and she’s like idk and you’re like he called u ugly???? he keeps his secret wife locked in the attic???? wake up???? and then you think she finally has it sorted out and she calls you a few months later like “his wife killed herself and burned down the house so it’s cool we’re getting married� like !!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO YOU GO TO THAT WEDDING!!!!!! #that’s just a normal friendship with a straight girl honestly (all credit to: )
ORIGINAL "REVIEW":
I've debated long and hard as to whether I should write (and film) a full-length review but I honestly can't be bothered. This novel is ridiculously predictable, cheesy and way too over the top. The wish-fulfillment is off the roofs and the little Deus Ex Attica (sorry! :D) that Brontë had going on just pissed me off. There was fuckery on almost every single page, and I'm just over it. 0/10 would not recommend. ;)
i love jane eyre but honestly imagine being friends with that bitch. like imagine trying to convince her to leave rochester and she’s like idk and you’re like he called u ugly???? he keeps his secret wife locked in the attic???? wake up???? and then you think she finally has it sorted out and she calls you a few months later like “his wife killed herself and burned down the house so it’s cool we’re getting married� like !!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO YOU GO TO THAT WEDDING!!!!!! #that’s just a normal friendship with a straight girl honestly (all credit to: )
ORIGINAL "REVIEW":
I've debated long and hard as to whether I should write (and film) a full-length review but I honestly can't be bothered. This novel is ridiculously predictable, cheesy and way too over the top. The wish-fulfillment is off the roofs and the little Deus Ex Attica (sorry! :D) that Brontë had going on just pissed me off. There was fuckery on almost every single page, and I'm just over it. 0/10 would not recommend. ;)
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lmao i love jane eyre and yet you are also so right 😂
You finally were able to do a ŷ review for this mess! I applaud your strength and bravery.
Sarah wrote: "You finally were able to do a ŷ review for this mess! I applaud your strength and bravery."Saraaaahhh, it literally took me half a year to write half a paragraph on this thang... what even is my life??? :D
Ry wrote: "lmao i love jane eyre and yet you are also so right 😂"I‘m glad you get me 😂😂
I’m reading this now and doing a lot of sighing. I thought it was just me. Plowing on . . .
" Deus Ex Attica" you got me, girl xD
Beth wrote: "" Deus Ex Attica" you got me, girl xD"HA! :D But I mean it was baaaaaaaaad, so bad jokes were in order!
Girl, you kill me. You are so right---how do you put up with a female so clueless? And and and...if you read WIDE SARGASSO SEA and find out the backstory on that POS Rochester, even more so you have to ask WTF is wrong with this girl?! But the fact that JE has been a part of the Western Canon pretty much from the get go says a lot about western culture, gender roles, and our favorite misogyny. Doesn't every man want to wreak havoc on the world and yet find a pure female to forgive his every sin and regard him as lord and master? Oh hell yes. But not anymore!
I just hope that high school girls all around the globe are standing up nowadays and crying FOUL at this book.
They should change Jane Eyre and make them read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by her sister Anne instead. She told it like it was, and not all this abusive hogwash that Charlotte and Emily wrote about!
Cedricsmom wrote: "Girl, you kill me. You are so right---how do you put up with a female so clueless? And and and...if you read WIDE SARGASSO SEA and find out the backstory on that POS Rochester, even more so you hav..."omg yes you're spot on, it really says a lot about how gender roles have been curated in the Western world ... I cannot even.
Beth wrote: "They should change Jane Eyre and make them read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by her sister Anne instead. She told it like it was, and not all this abusive hogwash that Charlotte and Emily wrote about!"but at least Emily had the sense to kill off all her characters? like I appreciate Wuthering Heights for the sheer ridiculousness and melodrama and that basically everyone was worse off after falling madly in love with one another ... but Jane Eyre ... that fucking happy ending killed meeee, like it ended me!
and alas (please don't come for me) I didn't enjoy Tenant either *hides behind bush* I agree that Anne had more sense than her two sisters and wrote the most realistic account of what it was like to be a woman in the 19th century, but there was so much petty drama it was all so foreseeable and on the nose (like Gilbert mistaking Helen's brother for her lover .... like kill me already) ... I was bored out of my mind tbh.
K wrote: "“that’s just a normal friendship with a straight girl honestly� lmao but seriously"I KNOWWWWWWW
This book seems to be very popular with people who love romance novels
Victoria wrote: "This book seems to be very popular with people who love romance novels"omg yes everyone loves this novel ... can't relate
After such an insipid review, in a just world you should never again be taken seriously on any work with more depth than Throne of glass. One star? Really? The writing itself is worth more than 4 no matter what it is about. Its beyond me haw you can have self respect as a reader.
Mement0o wrote: "After such an insipid review, in a just world you should never again be taken seriously on any work with more depth than Throne of glass. One star? Really? The writing itself is worth more than 4 n..."I cannot believe I just saw this now. You made me laugh. "In a just world" .... boy, get off my lawn.
I love this book, but this is one of the most accurate and funny reviews I have ever read.
Glad you could see the fun in my review. :)
Thank you... I'm taking it off my list now 😁
Haha, a lot of people really love it, I just think it’s ridiculous! ;)
I agree completely. Really funny review. Funny cause it is true.
Lol, I'm a psychotherapist and unfortunately, this happens all the time!! And you're supposed to be all supportive and calm when all you want to do is smack them. This is hilarious.
I love Jane Eyre, but I see your point. Btw that video of yours roasting victorian literature had me laughing 30 minutes straight!! Agree but disagree but agree (😂) (?)
bluewizard wrote: "I love Jane Eyre, but I see your point. Btw that video of yours roasting victorian literature had me laughing 30 minutes straight!! Agree but disagree but agree (😂) (?)"One of my finest videos. ;)
Vero wrote: "Lol, I'm a psychotherapist and unfortunately, this happens all the time!! And you're supposed to be all supportive and calm when all you want to do is smack them. This is hilarious."
LMAO. I could never do your job. Hats off!
Girl you are a NUT!🤣
I like your review! And I reblogged that Tumblr post.
Linda wrote: "I like your review! And I reblogged that Tumblr post."it's the best Tumblr post ... I'm still cackling about it :D
I don't get it when people say they love jane. I actually hate jane Eyre's character. I think she was unbearably religious, she left Rochester even though she wanted to be with her. Why? Not because Rochester is an asshole, no she doesn't see him as an asshole. She left him because some fucked up religion told her having sex outside marriage is bad. I just don't get this worldview! Just sleep with him if you want!
Loool!! Maybe Mr. Rochester could give a call to Dr. Ayeni to help him get rid of his wife? You never know xDDD
thank you!!!! i really don’t understand how people like this book�
mila wrote: "thank you!!!! i really don’t understand how people like this book�"it will forever be a mystery ... maybe one day they'll see the light lmao ;)
Alexis wrote: "Spoilers...."bestiee......
This one comes around periodically and I always get a kick out of it. 🤣
Melanie wrote: "Amazing review but Jane Eyre� is not a girls girl. In 8 years she never made one single friend beyond the one who died and her teacher. I can’t imagine being her friend because I can’t imagine her ..."LMAO you're even more ruthless than me, love that !!! lmao
Cedricsmom wrote: "This one comes around periodically and I always get a kick out of it. 🤣"you bettaa
Lmao I agree with this, still it was a fun read for me. Personally I like the Tenant of windfall hall, at least that female protagonist left their abusive spouse.
CL wrote: "Lmao I agree with this, still it was a fun read for me. Personally I like the Tenant of windfall hall, at least that female protagonist left their abusive spouse."haha happy to hear you enjoyed it <3 unfortuantely, i also really disliked the tenant of wildfell hall :( emily is the only bronte sister who works for me...
girl put the spoiler warning 😣😣😣😣😣😣
Fatima wrote: "girl put the spoiler warning 😣😣😣😣😣😣"BUT HOW DO YOU TO THAT WEDDING
Still crying 😂 over the vampire apologist message. That kills every time 🤣
Cedricsmom wrote: "Still crying 😂 over the vampire apologist message. That kills every time 🤣"it may or may not be the greatest tumblr post of all time ... it never gets old!
Dona wrote: "Thank you, will avoid!"I never wanna keep anybody from reading any book, so if you have an initial interest in it, give it a go. You can always DNF. :)
"Dues Ex Attica" is more funny and brilliant than the entirety of the novel 😂
Paige wrote: ""Dues Ex Attica" is more funny and brilliant than the entirety of the novel 😂"periodttt
How about we use the spoiler alert button? Plus you all did not understand the point of the novel and it shows.. 💀
Jane Anne wrote: "How about we use the spoiler alert button? Plus you all did not understand the point of the novel and it shows.. 💀"The perpetuated racism in Jane Eyre (esp. Charlotte's portrayal of the Creole woman Bertha who only "growls" and is incapable of speech/ the whole animalisation of her character) is grating. I'd highly recommend reading Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea instead. It's one of those postcolonial texts which writes back to the prevalent Eurocentric notions of language and literature upheld by "canonic" texts (see also Salman Rushdie's phenomenal essay "The Empire writes back with a vengeance" or the larger nonfiction book "The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures", penned by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin.) Jean Rhys removes Bertha from the margins of Jane Eyre and puts her in the centre of her own novel, thus revealing the true abusive nature of Mr Rochester. It's very well done!
It's amazing how new perspectives can challenge classic texts and give voice to marginalised characters who have been silenced for too long.
There should be like buttons on comments or rather, putting people in their place by means of educating them
