The latest Fifty Shades-inspired trend is a series of sexed-up versions of classic novels. Is 'lit-porn' any good or is this sacrilege that will have the Bronte sisters turning in their graves? Can you tell which of the following quotes are from the original and which from Eve Sinclair's Jane Eyre Laid Bare?
a) '...every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery...I did not think I should tremble in this way when I saw him'
b) 'His kiss seemed to open my very soul and bare me naked before him.'
c) 'I was hopelessly, blissfully trapped, and borne away on those dark seas I had glimpsed in his eyes for so long, leaving the shores of everything I knew to be right to sail into this uncharted water.'
d) 'His face was very much agitated and very much flushed and there were strong workings in the features and strange gleams in the eyes.
"Oh Jane, you torture me!"
e) 'I crushed his hand, which was ever hunting mine, vigorously, and thrust it back to him red with the passionate pressure'
f) 'I gasped as I felt the hardness of his member against my stomach. My hands clasped his hair, my mouth opening, my tongue yielding to him.'
b) 'His kiss seemed to open my very soul and bare me naked before him.'
c) 'I was hopelessly, blissfully trapped, and borne away on those dark seas I had glimpsed in his eyes for so long, leaving the shores of everything I knew to be right to sail into this uncharted water.'
d) 'His face was very much agitated and very much flushed and there were strong workings in the features and strange gleams in the eyes.
"Oh Jane, you torture me!"
e) 'I crushed his hand, which was ever hunting mine, vigorously, and thrust it back to him red with the passionate pressure'
f) 'I gasped as I felt the hardness of his member against my stomach. My hands clasped his hair, my mouth opening, my tongue yielding to him.'
Extracts quoted from: Jane Eyre Laid Bare by Charlotte Bronte and Eve Sinclair, published by Macmillan on 2nd August (as reproduced in The Sunday Times St a) cyle magazine 29th July 2012).
Answers: Bronte = a) d) e) Sinclair = b) c) f)
2 comments:
I certainly don't think f fits in with the Bronte sisters.
Oh --- ugh.
I knew it was coming. But still...
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