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1:14 PM

@Shog9 hello. sorry i left this open all night

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2:41 PM

i think this is a great question for this site. i sort of contrived it because i wanted to break up the "what are some good books about x?" monotony on our front page, but it's getting almost no action. is it off topic in some way i didn't realize?

Q: What genre is Jane Eyre?

To me, it seems like Jane Eyre is a romance novel (romance as in clutching love letters to one's bosom and sighing dramatically). Is it also a Romantic novel (as in Romanticism), even though it was published in a later century? Is there some other genre that would describe the book more aptly?

I don't think so. I think it requires actual thought vs. "Here are some books I liked, kthnxbye!"

Starting to get down-right irritated at all these book-rec questions

@Shog9 me too.

@AbbyTMillerΨ no, it's a great question, jsut one that i can't answer because i don't know enough about the book

@Shog9 yeah, it's getting annoying to me as well shog. i'm hopeing they'll die out pretty quick and not kill the beta

3:02 PM

i for one am going to make up some good literature questions that i could answer myself (or am not wondering about particularly) just to stack the deck a little

@AbbyTMillerΨ that's what i've been trying to do :-D. that's what i did on the sci-fi beta

Ask some Emily Bronte questions now, so @gracenote can answer them...

@Shog9 i'm totally unfamiliar with her stuff but i will make somethin' up!

Anna Lear

This "Bit of Fry and Laurie" clip will be to Literature like XKCD comics are to Programmers and SO:

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Q: Story about some teenagers and a guy breaking his leg falling from a tree

posted a couple of new questions literature.stackexchange.com/questions/120/…

I remember reading a story back in highschool about a couple of teenagers in a military academy. The main things i remember from the book was that one of the characters ends up falling out of a tree and breaking his leg. spoiler part: Near the end of the book the kid's leg rebreaks, and a ...

story-identification

why did the second one work but not the first?!?!?!?!

3:07 PM

gotta be by itself

Anna Lear

@DForck42 It has to be the only thing in the message.

@AnnaLear That's excellent

@Shog9 ahh, thanks

@AnnaLear thanks

created a new tag named influences to try and tag questions that are about the influences leading to a work or what influences came from a work.

literature.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/influences

3:25 PM

@DForck42 don't forget the wiki excerpt!

Matthew Read

4:23 PM

Aww yeah, first "Nice Answer". (Actually I'm pretty surprised.)

4:45 PM

It's got a table - that takes effort!

More importantly, you went out of your way to write a comprehensive answer even though your recommendation could have stopped at "publication order"

Matthew Read

5:09 PM

I did have to press Space a fair bit :P haha. Thanks.

5:28 PM

i added a question that should get a decent amount of attention (whether it's good or bad is yet to be determined)

6:07 PM

no body loves me... :(

6:58 PM

@DForck42 Not just you. I've made a couple meta posts, since there's a rather worrying trend toward list questions on the site and the previous discussion wasn't getting anywhere.