By popular request (well, two of us, anyway), here's your thread to discuss the book. It amused the heck out of me to add the spoilers notice for a hundred-and-fifty-year-old book, but people need to be warned.
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By popular request (well, two of us, anyway
Last edited by Paulie; 07-15-2003 at 04:47 PM.
When you're ten years old and a car drives by and splashes a puddle of water all over you, it's hard to decide if you should go to school like that or try to go home and change and probably be late. So while he was trying to decide, I drove by and splashed him again. - Jack Handey
Read Paulie's Precaps for Survivor:Vanuatu: 1-2-3-4-5
Definitely a few. And there were other times that I should've but didn't. The one new word I learned that I was really pleased with was "lachrymose." She uses it twice.
When you're ten years old and a car drives by and splashes a puddle of water all over you, it's hard to decide if you should go to school like that or try to go home and change and probably be late. So while he was trying to decide, I drove by and splashed him again. - Jack Handey
Read Paulie's Precaps for Survivor:Vanuatu: 1-2-3-4-5
I think I've always been reluctant to read this book because it would be too much like the Jane Austen book I read, which I found a terrible bore. So, Paulie, are you saying this is not that? A good read?
It's not a bore at all. It's a lively, entertaining read with a strong and witty heroine as the narrator.
When you're ten years old and a car drives by and splashes a puddle of water all over you, it's hard to decide if you should go to school like that or try to go home and change and probably be late. So while he was trying to decide, I drove by and splashed him again. - Jack Handey
Read Paulie's Precaps for Survivor:Vanuatu: 1-2-3-4-5
OK, thanks. I'll definitely look into reading it soon, maybe before the end of summer. I'll stay out of this thread though so as not to spoil my enjoyment of it. Discuss on!
I read this book at the very impressionable age of 13 and loved it (still do).But some of the circumstances surrounding Charlotte Bronte's life make me ambiguous about Jane Eyre (the character, that is). If people are just starting to read it I don't want to spoil their enjoyment of it so I'll leave it at that.
Charlotte Bronte was no Jane Austen. She was a generation later and scorned Jane Austen's "parlor" stories. Not me, though, I love Jane Austen's people-watching stories!
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That is pretty good; the spoilers warning! 