Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

[beer good]

We don't have a Jane Eyre thread? Really?

Anyway, a piece of news: Following the success of 50 Shades Of Grey etc, Pan MacMillan will now be releasing an "erotic retelling" (or in plain English, porny fanfic) of Jane Eyre, called Jane Eyre Laid Bare.

Erotic retelling of Jane Eyre for Pan Mac | The Bookseller

No word yet on whether there are zombies involved.

 

[sparkchaser]

I want the next retelling of a classic to involve graphic sex, zombies, the mashup with another classic, and possibly a white whale.

 

[beer good]

Does the white whale have sex with a zombie Ahab?

 

[sparkchaser]

No, the white whale has sex with a lycanthropic Paul Bunyan.

 

[beer good]

Thereby relieving Paul Bunyan's blue balls. Bulls. Whatever.

 

[direstraits]

I, uh, am liking Jane Eyre. A lot. Not halfway yet, so no spoilers, please.

 

[Meadow337]

I, uh, kind of like it too!

 

[ChaosTheory]

Yeah, me too.
There aren't enough eye-roll emoticons in the world for this.

 

[Meadow337]

LOL 'this' being? Jane Eyre or the topic of the original post?

 

[ChaosTheory]

The original post

 

[Meadow337]

The original post

Then I agree 10 000 % not enough eye ball rolling icons in the world ...

 

[ChaosTheory]

I wonder just how many of these they're going to attempt. There's already at least one for Wuthering Heights:

http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Wuthering-Nights/Emily-Bronte/9781455573028?id=5771895657486

Yeah.....

 

[Meadow337]

absolutely no comment whatsoever! I'm not into the genre.

 

[ChaosTheory]

I like a dirty romance now and then but I'm definitely not into the mashing it up with existing works.

 

[direstraits]

Finished Jane Eyre last week. Excellent. Prefer Austen though. Next, another Bronte! Wuthering Heights, here I come!

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[CourtneyAsunmaa]

Finished Jane Eyre last week. Excellent. Prefer Austen though. Next, another Bronte! Wuthering Heights, here I come!

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I quite enjoyed both of those authors as well.

 

[Leahna]

Finished Jane Eyre last night to me ! And I looooove really really this book ! I have reading it in French but I hope I could read it in english one day !

 

[CourtneyAsunmaa]

Her books are all good. I can vaguely read French and Spanish. I am not able to speak it though. As French written words look similar and have similar patterns to them and that's how I am able to vaguely read French.

You also can use conversion sites that are online. You just google and search for french to english conversions.
http://translation.babylon.com/french/to-english/

 

[Pootle]

Jane Eyre is one of my favourite books. I must have read it twenty times or so since being a teenager. Have any of you read Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea? The story is told from Bertha's point of view. It is amazing

Not so sure I could handle a zombie Jane Eyre though

 

[Polly Parrot]

I read Wide Sargasso Sea a couple of years ago for uni. I had to read Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, and Jane Eyre as a sort of series to show the connections between all novels. I never really enjoyed Jane Eyre though, maybe I should give it another try.