BooksWe love books. Tell us about your favourite books and authors, and why they are so good. And while you're at it - having dined out for years on the time I threw Dan Brown out of a train window - tell us who to avoid.
(
Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 5 Jan 2012, 13:40)
« Go Back | See The Full Thread
I am refreshed and challenged by your opinionShort form: you're wrong.
Jane Eyre was the first and foremost of the Feisty Girls: small, poor, at the bottom of the heap. She yanks herself out not by simpering at passing rich twats, but by taking on a thoroughly dangerous man.
This had never been done before in English Literature. Jane's descendants include Holly Golightly, Lisbeth Salander and (unfortunately) Sookie Stackhouse.
Also, if you have a teenage daughter, it's a damn fine user manual.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 12:00, 2 replies)
I agree, and have alot of respect for charlotte Bronte.Society needed someone like her. Although i wouldn't say its a totally pro feminist. Mr Rochester was a pig.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:35, closed)
"Also, if you have a teenage daughter, it's a damn fine user manual."The best book review I've read in an age. Big clickies.
(, Fri 6 Jan 2012, 13:37, closed)
« Go Back | See The Full Thread