Wuthering Heights

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Summary: Unique
Review: I read this book in Bosnia, when I was 8, and in the beginning, I was bored by the insipid narrator...then, as I read further on, I gained a whole new world of insights, and after I put it down, I was not the same. This is-without any doubts-one of the greatest books ever written: about love, probably not the way it really exists, but more about the way it should be-fierce, almost insane, unconditional, holy; about life, the way it often is, merciless, disregarding one's true wishes and needs. But all the words I pile up here fade away in comparison with this book. It is a shame that there are so many worthless "romantic fiction" pulp books being published and read, when there is Wuthering Heights to teach you about love, loss and despair.

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Summary: A Literary Masterpiece
Review: This book is excellent, but to fully appreciate it, you must be able to understand not only love but passion. Immature readers cannot grasp the depth of the passion between Cathy & Heathcliff. While Jane Eyre is an interesting story, it does not reveal the magnitude of human emotion and angst that Wuthering Heights does.

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Summary: A Horrid Disappointment
Review: After reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, I was looking forward to reading this work of her sister's. I was mortally disappointed. It was like an extremely bad soap opera, with pointless obsessions and passions ruling the lives of the characters with an iron grip. With pathetic, dying lovers, doom, and desperation, it has no redeeming virtues.

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Summary: Finally, it can be told...
Review: Of all the things committed to paper, why on Earth was it this? Having been forced to read this tripe under penalty of death in high school, and then once again in college, I must say that death is welcome. Oh poor poo-poo Heathcliff the Brooding and Catherine the ill fated strumpet. Yawn. Emily Bronte lived one of those lives like that of the other Emily, you know, Dickenson, who is another pile of rubbish altogether. Lonely days and cold nights with her father, and no hot little encounters with a horny gardener from Spain. All Emily Bronte needed was a good tango, but I fear that she was too chaste. And so the world must bear the weight of this tragedy, of its endless reprints which will mark the end of Time. Of course you can love this book and curl up with it at night as if it were your secret lover, or teddy bear, (Even if your teddy bear is your secret lover.) and listen to that song by Michael Penn, or whoever wrote that piece of yack. I don't care. I believe that this book sucks, and it is not worthy of being in the Canon. It should be banished to the realm of Cheesy Teeny-Bopperazzi Romance Goo in the back of a used book store somewhere in Northern Alberta.

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Summary: Honest opinion of an intelligent, avid reader, unforced.
Review: The writing is not half bad, the language flows well. I'll agree with other readers, it's hard to tell who's leading the narrative. It's also hard to tell the relations of the characters until quite a ways into the book. The story does not end up satisfying the reader. It's not really even much of a love story. It's quite a hate story. I'm glad I read it, but only because it kept me from buying it.

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Summary: This book is painfully boring
Review: If one wants to be bored into tears, one should invest in this unreasonably terrible. The only thing I liked about it was the fact that it cured my sleep deprivation problem. At the end of the book, nothing has happened other than a bunch of funerals. I may be young and stupid but I believe that I am advanced enough to know the work of a inept writer. You can cast my opinion away because my young age, but from "See Spot Run" to "King James' Bible" there has never been a book so gargantuously horrible.

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Summary: NOT AN ENJOYABLE STORY
Review: This book is nothing special. I personally don't see why everyone considers this to be a masterpiece. First off I can't see how Bronte can turn such a stupid story into a 300 page novel. Another thing that bothered me was the narrative. The story was almost completely told in flashback and that flashback often broke into another flashback and a couple of time broke off into a third flashback. Another thing that was bad was the referce to the characters. One sentence she wold call Isabella Mrs. Linton then she would call Catherine Mrs. Linton also. Same situation with Mr. Heathcliff and Linton Heathcliff. Not to mention the fact that there were two Catherines which just added to the unproffesionalism of this book. What the heck was Joespeph saying!!!! Overall I believe reading this book was a complete waste of time and I would defenantly not recommend this book to anyone else. If you are looking for an enjoyable book from that era I strongly suggest you read Jane Erye by Emily's more competent sister Charlotte.

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Summary: Please... stop... i'll jump from a great height!!!
Review: Emily Bronte was a sad and sorry woman. Her novel is overated, long winded and utterly painful. I have not yet managed to finish the book as i find cleaning under my fingernails sublimely exciting compared to the prospect of reading this book. Emily.. get a life. HSC students don't do related!

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Summary: What's Everyone's Problem??!?
Review: Reading all the comments made me sick to the stomach. Everyone nowadays is just living too fast to enjoy the world's real treasures: books. So stop thinking about the logics of Wuthering Heights and just enjoy it 'cause it's the BEST!!!

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Summary: fantastic book, very emotional and passionate
Review: I am one of the only men Ive ever met that really likes this book. Its one of the only two books that I had to read for school that I actually liked (the other being 1984). Its an extremely passionate story of, as the above description says "a love stronger than death". Also, I feel this is a book that almost anyone can relate to, due to the way it gets down to the essence of what love is. My words cannot do this book justice properly.