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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte - King Bob - 05-16-2016
Decided to re-read this after all that Austen. I read it once many years ago and had forgotten a lot of it. It was long - 679 pages in the Modern Library edition I read (which had a good font and nice spacing of text FYI) so it took me quite a while, but every time I started to get tired then something happened in the text to pull me back in. Quite different from Austen - more dramatic, more eventful, more mention of weather and nature. There are some great sentences with powerful descriptive imagery. There is an extreme coincidence and a supernatural event, so it's not completely realistic by our standards. If you like Dickens I think you would like this.
The film with Charlotte Gainsbourg is also good, but she is too pretty - the author keeps repeating that Jane is plain. I haven't seen the 2011 film.
Now I am going to have to re-read Wuthering Heights I think. But right now I'm going to take a break from the 19th century novels.