{"id":690,"date":"2007-03-27T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=690"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:45:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:45:31","slug":"book-log-jane-eyre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Book Log &#8211; Jane Eyre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Jane Eyre<\/i> by Charlotte Bronte<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/galbinus_caeli.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">galbinus_caeli<\/a> for reminding me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>, which has made a number of improvements since last I had a Palm, making it much easier to transfer those books to a ebook format.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed the first 4\/5 of this book.  It&#8217;s got a Harry Potter\/Oliver Twist sort of beginning, and the language is very enjoyable<sup>1<\/sup>.  The last fifth dragged a bit, and I sped read the last few pages.<\/p>\n<p>I picked it up because I&#8217;ve been reading the Jasper Fforde Thursday Next series, which began with <i>The Eyre Affair<\/i>.  There was much plot of that book based upon the changing of the plot in <i>Jane Eyre<\/i>, none of which I understood.  So now it all makes sense.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><sup>1<\/sup> It should be noted that I find Jane Austen&#8217;s writing enjoyable as well.  So&#8230; there&#8217;s your reference point.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Thanks to galbinus_caeli for reminding me of Project Gutenberg, which has made a number of improvements since last I had a Palm, making it much easier to transfer those books to a ebook format. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=690\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}