# Your top five reads from 2009

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-five-reads-from-2009/521283>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 14, 2009, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-five-reads-from-2009/521283 "2009-12-14T23:24:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![valleyofthedolls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a4c791/32.png) [@valleyofthedolls](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/valleyofthedolls)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-five-reads-from-2009/521283/41 "2009-12-16T09:38:18Z")

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> [@jordanr2](#):
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> Aw, I liked that one! I expected an all-out gross-out, but it actually turned out to be kind of a sweet love/lust story, rendered entirely on the narrator’s own terms.

I’ll give you that and I thought the ending was very well done but:

bbq tongs will never be the same for me and the scene where she deliberately reinjures herself left me whimpering.

so all in all, I don’t think I would have missed much had I never read it in the first place.

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**Author:** ![Humble\_Servant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/47e85d/32.png) [@Humble\_Servant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Humble_Servant)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-five-reads-from-2009/521283/42 "2009-12-16T18:16:56Z")

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> [@jordanr2](#):
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> maybe it’s the fault of my relative unfamiliarity with _Jane Eyre_.

Naah, it sucks either way.

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**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-five-reads-from-2009/521283/43 "2009-12-16T18:24:28Z")

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> [@Humble\_Servant](#):
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> Naah, it sucks either way.

Agreed- I love _Jane Eyre_ but Wide Sargasso Sea was incoherent. It actually started fairly well but it was scrambled and, in my opinion, untrue to the character of Rochester (not that I think he’s wonderful).

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