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Summary: Death-defying love and mean people.
Review: Let's admit it, as good a writer Emily Bronte was, she wasn't as good a writer as her sister, Charlotte. Her only major work, WUTHERING HEIGHTS clearly illustrates that. The writing is superior to most fiction that one reads today and the story is rather interesting. Yet, it failed to catch my attention as easily as JANE EYRE did. There are very few likeable characters in the story (the young Catherine Earnshaw, the housekeeper, and the narrator) and the ending seemed rather hasty. Nevertheless, WUTHERING HEIGHTS is a classic and for good reason. It examines a love that defies death, how important our relationships with other people are, and the value of words. It takes awhile to get into the book, but once one passes the first few chapters, it's hard to put the book down.
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Summary: It's all good
Review: This book was exceptionally well written. It is terrible how the majority of books are all happy and perky and there is never a cloud in the sky. In this book, Bronte snapped me back to the reality that there is unhappiness in the world andyou have to live with it. She showed that love lasts through all darkness and bad situations. So if you are looking for a good historic love story, but not a "Happily Ever After" this is your best bet.
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Summary: How did trash like this become recognised as great?
Review: As far as I can see this is no better than any other trashy romance story. It reads like the puerile imaginings of a naive teenage girl. The characters are completely ridiculous and every romantic novel cliche is to be found here. I tried hard but I gave up 10 pages from the end - I just couldn't take any more. If you really must read something romantic I'd recommend Thomas Hardy.
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Summary: Behavioral Sense of the Story
Review: Wuthering Heights is tale of deceit an forbidden passion. This story reflects a clear vision of how ill-fated love affairs can have a disturbing affect on the soul of a person. This is a common scenario to many stories. A person will feel completely alone in the world, yet there will be that one connection with a person who rests the same level as that person. Their thoughts will become intertwined to the extent that one will not be able to disconnect, mentally, from the other. In point, that one person will not allow themselves to be detached from that destined soul-mate. However, the other person in the relationship will realize the seriousness of possible feelings and so escapes to another love. This tail is common.
Heathcliff, an individual faced with the crushing challenge of winning his love, Catherine, back. She was the only one willing to express loving emotions on his behalf and so, lured Heathcliff into that overwhelming trap of pain. He left for three years to return to Catherine's heart being stolen by another. Heathcliff was devasted, but continued to see Catherine on occasion, when her husband, Edgar, was not home. In the end, the two confessed their love for one another, only to be unable to physically express it. Catherine died shortely-thereafter.
It almost appears that there is some kind of curse surrounding the story. A numerous an suspicious amount of people die too often, too soon.
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Summary: Class? ick!!!!
Review: I read this book years ago after reading Jane Eyre. This is nothing like Jane Eyre or Pride and Prejudice. It does not have the spirite or the heart of those two books. For years I tried to figure out what was wrong with me that I should not love such a classic. But now that I am more mature and a more seasoned reader; ...It just is not to my taste. Sometimes I like books that others do not and sometimes others like books that I dont. This book lacks the hope and sense of awe for life that I desire in a novel. For me the hero and herroine must be worthy of my time and attention. Something good in them must prevail. That just doesn't happen here. This story is really sad because it is a love story writen by a woman who never know what it was like to love and be loved in return. IF she had she would never have writen this abusive version of love. But you know as well as i do that some women truely belive that abuse is love. So like I say to each his own.
P.S. Read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall By Ann Bronte instead. It shows the real face of an abusive relationship with a happy ending. Her characters are realistic and true heros of their lives.
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Summary: Hmm...
Review: It's alright, but why are all the characters so camp? Anyway, a bit melodramatic, with a bunch of despicable characters. Funnily enough, it's not as bad as it sounds.
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Summary: Pass the Prozac please
Review: Several years ago, tired of reading the latest novels, I decided after a few forays into classic literature that maybe I should devote more time to them. After all, anything hailed as a "great literary work" by millions of people has to be good, right? I'm glad this wasn't the first classic I picked up, because I never would have continued reading them. The book itself isn't all that thick, which while I prefer thick, I was grateful it wasn't in this case. It is a book about torment. Everyone in it is in a perpetual state of plain, downright torment. And the kicker is they bring it on themselves. Reading it I felt bad for Heathcliff as a child and sympathised with his plight. The fireworks begin after Heathcliff returns from some unnamed place or places with millions in the bank. The apple of his eye is the wishy-washy (I just can't come up with a more fitting term for so wretched a woman) Catherine, who can't make up her mind what to do throughout the book until her dying breath. Thank God that happened. When I read a book I generally try to find a connection with one of the characters, someone who might share the same views as I would or who might take the same action as I would in certain circumstances, but I'm sorry to say I couldn't find a single one. I found myself more or less taking the side of Edgar, although he wasn't very enjoyable either. As for Heathcliff I felt like reaching into the book, smacking him around a few good hours while screaming "Get over it!" Wuthering Heights is filled to bursting with detestable people doing deplorable things for no other reason than greed, selfishness, and what must be some kind of masochistic desire for misery. And Heathcliff is the King of Pain in this one. I felt actual relief at his passing as I would that of a rabid dog. This would be a one star review, but for the last 40 pages where at least some semblence of hope and happiness comes to this damned book, something it was completely devoid of throughout the rest of it. It's a wonder half of England didn't commit suicide out of severe depression after reading it when it was first released. Want torturous love but with actual hope and happiness sprinkled through it? Try "War and Peace" by Tolstoy. Leave this one on the shelf, unless you like reasons to take sedatives that is.
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Summary: A must read tragic classic...
Review: This was required reading for my Senior English Literature (I was 17) and it was one of the many books that I enjoyed that year. It probably helped that I had read Jane Eyre when I was 12 or so and again in the same English Lit class in high school. It helped me get used to the style and time period. However, as much as I enjoyed Jane Eyre, I liked Emily's writing and story telling much better. It is tragic story about passion, hatred, romance and a love that reaches beyond the grave. If you haven't already, READ IT!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: One of my favorites, and always will be.
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Summary: Swollen, boring, bourgeois melodrama
Review: I'm convinced that this book is considered a "classic"because people are sheep and know they're supposed to think it is. Don't get me wrong -- I love some of the classics but this book was one of the most dull, turgid, tedious, pointless books I have ever had the displeasure of reading. To be truthful, it was such a chore to read that I could not bring myself to finish it.
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