Villette (Dramatised) Audiobook

" Very, very interesting. I don't love it instantly like Jane Eyre, but it might be because I don't understand some parts (especially the French). I might reread it. "

" I thoroughly enjoyed this slow but psychologically rich novel. I kept thinking that if Jane Eyre was comparable to Pride and Prejudice in maturity and depth, than Villette is much more in line with Persuasion. The narrator is rather unreliable, despite being written in the first person. It has comedy, adventure, romance of a sort, and a heroine that while I didn't necessarily always agree with, I do deeply admire her integrity. "

" I listened to this book on CD in my car over several weeks, if not months, and, dear reader, by the end I was thinking Charlotte Bronte was neck and neck w/ Charles Maturin, author of my least favorite novel Melmoth the Wanderer, for tiresomeness. I grew weary. Best parts were hearing the reader speak the untranslated French passages, although I don't speak French. "

" No prose is too purple for this overwritten, looong and turgid disappointment. The language is, occasionally, stirring, hence the second star. But Bronte needed a ruthless editor for the frequent lapses into toe-curling verbosity. The heroine is a timid, repressed God-botherer of the type that make shrinking violets seem too forward. Many reviewers consider this Bronte's best, or a close second to Jane Eyre. Count me among those unfeeling brutes who think of it only as a week they will never get back. "

" I loved this book. I personally liked the story of Jane Eyre much better, but this books has so much depth and is just amazing. Love it. A must read for Charlotte Bronte fans!! "

" loved the book Hated!!!!! the ending! erg i hate when that happens :( "

" Love the great amount of French vocabulary, also helped me live vicariously thru the teachers and students @ a boarding school, if you love the French, intrigue, have a great curious nature,then you should read this... <3 "

" I liked it very much and was delighted with her unexpected but welcomed happy ending. Lovely. "

" Wonderfully pretty in the home stretch, but the emotional resonance of the first 450 pages is all but doused by Bronte's compulsion to write, write, write, write, write. The four-star review is a testament to the power of the ending. "

" I could relate a lot to the main character. Much of her life was just getting through without looking to much to hope, because that only leads to disappointment. But then when wonderful things happen it is a joyous occasion not looked for. "

" I think the length made this one harder to read then Jane Eyre -- but since then, I have tackled MUCH longer books. Might have to read it again. "

" My favorite novel of all time...This is the valley of the shadow, and the coming out the other side bruised, beaten, but triumphant. "

" A Gothic melodrama bursting to break out of Victorian trappings. Lucy Stowe is a wondrous character, slowly coming to life in a mystifying, romantic new city. "