Wuthering Heights
3.7
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Emily Brontë
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Author
Emily Brontë
Pages
354
Publisher
Doubleday, Page
Published Date
1907
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Google: 4
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""Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same."<br/><br/>2.5⭐<br/><br/>I've been planning to read Wuthering Heights for forever, and finally did a group read with some friends this year. I went into this book with certain expectations because of what I've heard about it, and I wound up being disappointed. For some reason, I thought it was going to be a first-hand account of a crazy toxic romance. Catherine and Heathcliff's story being told by someone else felt so distant, and I actually wanted to know what all was going on. The narrator was listening to another narrator tell a story about other people, and it was so disjointed to me. So much more of the book focused on other characters, and I had little to no interest in the other characters. <br/><br/>The ending just felt like a build-up to nothing, and I kept waiting for the story to get more intense. It never happened. Obviously the writing is good, but I just ended up not caring for the story. I'll probably try to read it again one day now that I know what to expect."
"Great story telling, amazing story. Was glued to it the whole time!"
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Sam WD
"This was a reread for me; the first time I read this I was 18 and fresh to university. Rewind seven years, I gave this book 2/5 stars. Now I am hovering around a four. What’s changed? I appreciate Brontë’s ability to create the most detestable characters known to the literary world. <br/><br/>If you’re looking for drama and some characters to despise, look no further because Wuthering Heights offers you a plethora of options. When I was 18, I would have told you that the insufferable characters were the worst part. But now I can appreciate how terrible and flawed each of the characters are, and acknowledge that I do not need to like the characters to understand them. <br/><br/>What I enjoyed most about Wuthering Heights is Brontë’s ability to make you really hate (and I mean <i>hate!</i>) Hindley Earnshaw, and sympathize and root for Heathcliff; then, Brontë turns that world up-side-down and makes you feel sorry for Hindley and loath Heathcliff. All the characters are flawed and nobody is perfect.<br/><br/>Normally if a book got me this worked up with the characters I would have concluded that I disliked the book. However, the way Bronte writes about these characters gets under your skin; you understand each of them to a degree but at the same time you want to hate them all for the terrible things they do to one another. <b>But isn’t that our (the human species) cruel nature? </b>People <i>do</i> manipulate, abuse, beat, seek revenge, and keep this vicious cycle of violence carry from generation to generation. <br/><br/>I think the reason why this book gets so much hate is because people detest the characters and how uncomfortable it makes readers. But if you go into the book knowing you’re <i><u>supposed to hate them</i></u>, maybe you’ll appreciate the uncomfortable truths about human behaviour. I know I noticed these things the second time around.<br/><br/><a href="https://myareads.wordpress.com/book-reviews/by-title/">Click to Read More Reviews </a>"
"One of my favorite books. Gothic romance set in the British moors, relationships gone crazy"
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Rebekah Travis