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Summary: Not likeable, but likeable!
Review: I too read this book for high school. I found myself not liking any of the characters and wondering how I could like a book with such an unlikeable cast! I soon realised, however, that the point is not to 'like' the characters particularly (as we are made to do in most modern books and movies) but to see their struggles, passion and lives for what they are. Life is hard, life can be ugly. Another thing that struck me was the intense love and devotion to Catherine from such an unloveable being as Heathcliff. The story tells me that Catherine and Heathcliff could only really love each other. My advice is read this book. You may not like all the characters and you can forget all the romance cliches, but it is valuable to know both as a piece for school and a tragic story. Oh, and do read Joseph's parts aloud-it helps!
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Summary: Best English Assignment
Review: I'm 16 and fall into the vast catogory of Wutehring Heights readers who had to finish it for a highschool english assignment. If I hadn't been, er, forced to read it, I never would've encountered this amazing book. The themes that it encompasses, love, hate, revenge, isolation, are so masterfully blended in this book that I found it extremely powerful. True, it is not a romance - it is so much more. I didn't find it confusing, although Joseph's lines had to be read allowed several times before they were actaully understood. The doubling-up of names just increases the sense of isolation within the book, something which I think is rather important to the story. I hardly find this book boring at all, it's passionate and full of action, something which took me completely off guard. Please, give it a chance. And even though he was a complete jerk, my favourite character is still Heathcliff. *G*
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Summary: Review on Wuthering Heights
Review: Hello,and welcome to my breif reveiw on Wuthering Heights. If you want to read this book you've made the right choice. Wuthering Heights is a beautiful book of passion,pain,tragedy and love. Although I am only a chid I think that this book is the most touching one I have ever read. Wuthering Heights is about the young love of Catherine and Heathcliff and their struggle to be together. I read this book and had this much admiration for it, so why shouldn't you?
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Summary: Wuthering Indeed!
Review: Well as if the Nineteenth Century weren't bad enough we now have Penguin shoving it down our maws every other day with another re-issue of some tepid "classic." Miss Bronte has done it again and wielded her magic pen as a wand and cast her net of sleep on the unsuspecting reading public of America. The only consolation the non-preteen girl reader can get form this sack of slumber is the final realisation that "wuthering" is British slang for "your eyelids are getting heavy, why don't you just nod off?" I really have to say to Miss Bronte that I did not find Garfield's antics convincing in the least.
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Summary: This is a great book, no kidding.
Review: Wow! I may be only twelve, but this is a wonderfull book! I enjoy reading classics, this one especialy. Despite the author growing up with an excentric father in a house far removed from the rest of humanity, she was able to create a wonderfull book of friendship, love and tragedy.
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Summary: My favorite book of all time!
Review: This book is often unfairly labeled as a "Gothic romance." Well, obviously that is one way of looking at it, but I don't see what "romance" has to do with it. The main characters, Cathy and Heathcliff, have one of the most twisted and obsessive relationships I have ever seen. I wouldn't exactly call it a romance;more of some bitter love that the orphaned Heathcliff cannot let go of when Cathy marries another, has a child, and dies. He spends eternity taking out his revenge on the later generation, making this one of the darkest ideas of love that I have ever read. But then, that's why I like it. It shows that sometimes romance is not that pretty. In fact, it's pretty darn self-destructive. A great read, my favorite out of any I have ever read before.
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Summary: Wuthering Heights
Review: For those in high school out there, this book is NOT BAD and NOT BORING. I am a senior who had to read this for AP Lit, and I found it to be excellent. All of those people who claim it to be bad either are completely ignorant or uneducated (this is verified by their spelling and grammar in their reviews). If you have a choice to read this book or something else, read Wuthering Heights, because it will honestly change your outlook on so many things. For all of you NOT in high school, please do not assume that anyone under 18 is a complete ditz, because some of us can appreciate good literature just as well as you can.
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Summary: You may not like Wuthering Heights if....
Review: ...you are required to read it in High School ...you have an unusually "sunny" view on life ...your idea of the epitome of a romance novel is Danielle Steele ...you aren't ready to open your mind to new views about the human condition. For the rest of us, enjoy this novel about the intermingling of love and obsession. It really opens new doors for those who think love is red rosies and posies, and goes far deeper than typical, cliche teenage-angst-sorrow. The writing style is archaic, and requires some patience. Afterwards, though, you'll actually be able to use "notwithstanding" in a sentence!
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Summary: Breadsticks and Blessing Places
Review: I think Breadsticks and Blessing Places written by Candy Dawson Boyd is the best book ever written. I personally recomend this book to anyone interested in both happy and sad stories. Candy Dawson Boyd is my faveorite author author in the world and I would give anyhting to meet her in person.
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Summary: Interesting depiction of love
Review: I really enjoyed this book. The imagery is great, as the gloomy environment immediately connotes an aura of hopelessness around all the characters involved. It not only reflects upon the characters in the novel, but is a dark depiction of the world we are all thrust into when we are born. The love between Catherine and Heathcliff also reveals a gloomy view of life. Their love is not one that hopes for a future happiness. Instead, it manifests itself as a need that takes no consideration of the consequences. There is no hope in this story, only the pain that occurs in both being denied a loved one and in having that loved one. As I read this book, I never found myself wishing for the best for these tragic characters. Instead, I felt like I was watching a course of events that had to reach its eventual conclusion, and no amount of effort could change that. In this world only suffering exists, and the only relief exists in death. Needless to say, this isn't a cheerful story, but it is nonetheless fascinating.
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