Wuthering Heights

"Thanks @mindy_graham-valver for your suggestion of Wuthering Heights. #classics_corner #classics-corner "

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"Has a kind of Real Victorian Housewives feel to it which was compelling, but it petered out at the end."

"had some better moments ig but all in all like…what did i read? and what was the point?"

""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!"

"It’s a good classic…definitely gothic in style. "

"Ngl the forced marriage part knocked a full star off of this for me. After that I just skimmed until I reached the end."

"One of my favorite books. Gothic romance set in the British moors, relationships gone crazy"

"Watching a bunch of fading landed gentry behaving badly has a kind of vicious Real Housewives feel to it which could be fun at times. These people could not bear to let anyone else be happy and were constantly cutting off their noses to spite their faces.<br/><br/>However, it's kind of blunted a bit by the distance the literary device used to tell gives it (some parts are like Lockwood relating a letter written by Cathy as narrated to him by Ellen) and the ending sort of runs out of steam."