Wuthering Heights

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Summary: How can anyone not see the genius of this novel?
Review: I would never have read this brilliant, fascinating, and whirlwind novel had it not been for my English teacher. I can't believe what I would have missed out on! The narrative is not at all confusing - it's simply 1st person limited. The frame narration is wonderful, it adds to the mystique and ambiguity that surrounds the whole situation. Heathcliff inexorably attracts and repels as does Catherine. It's one long huge piece of poetic prose. It disturbs, it frightens, it causes one to look at a darker side in a new light. The book is amazing, Emily Bronte was a woman way beyond her times. I would reccomend this book to everyone - even those annoyed with the characters etc simply cannot argue with the mastery of the book.

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Summary: My favorite book. It takes me to a place no other book can.
Review: This book is amazing. It is such a powerful story. everytime I read it I can see, almost feel, it happen. It's such a dark, almost morbid story. there's just so much feeling that went into writing the book.

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Summary: Greatest book ever written!
Review: This is the GREATEST BOOK EVER WRITTEN and is probably the greatest book that will ever be written. It not only has a great story line but it has a true depth to it that seems to reach beyond physical life and understanding itself. For a women of that time to have such insight into the psychology of her caracters amazes me. I first read it when I was a senior in highschool and it gave me a true love and respect for reading and great writers such as Emily Bronte. I highly recomend reading it.

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Summary: Just Ok...
Review: I read this book because it was a 'classic' and I can't quite see what the big deal is. Number one, isn't it supposed to be a 'tragic love story' between Cathy and Heathcliff? Well, Cathy is his daughter in law and CATHERINE is the one he loves.How can it be a love story when they are practically brother and sister and never showed each other much affection anyway?? And why does everyone die from catching a cold? Living in England ain't that bad and also I could not understand ONE WORD of what Joseph was saying! The narrative in this book also confused me a bit.I'd start a chapter believing Nelly to be narrating only to find out half way through that it was actually Mr Lockwood. Also what really confused me was Who was Ellen? Was it another name for Nelly Dean?? This book was quite clumsy,and how did Emily Bronte turn a useless story into a 400 page novel? The only decent part of the book was when Catherine is dying and Heathcliff holds her and actually kisses her.That is the only part which shows their true feelings. Also Nelly was a back stabber - Every secret she was told by Catherine and Cathy and even Isabella, she tells someone else!!

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Summary: A passionate and gothic novel that resounds eternal love
Review: Simply the most incredible book I have ever read. The characters become embedded in your mind, and you live through their body and see through their eyes. It is so heart-wrenchingly passionate that at times you will feel helpless under the book's control. For anyone who enjoys romance and passion, this is the book with your name written on it. Everyone should read this book, for it taps into those rare and everyday human emotions that we can recognize and relate to. Indeed, a great read.

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Summary: "She is so immeasurably superior to them all"
Review: This book haunts me. I have read it countless times. It is ingrained in me now as part of my own personal myth. I carry Heathcliff and Cathy inside like some people carry The Virgin Mary or Allah inside of them. I read it when I was young because I had to for class and hated it, then years later, I was about eighteen and read it again, and this time Cathy and Heathcliff blew through me and knocked me down as surely as if I were a Linton. Years later it still exerts its strange force over me. People are right, it is not a 'nice' book: its emotional terrain is pitted with violence and terror, brutality and abuse. Wuthering Heights isn't about star-crossed love or the endurance of love over death, Emily Bronte was not concerned with such trivialities. It is about what happens to a person who feels intensely, about how a person who endures such intensity of feeling survives. Heathcliff and Cathy respresent two sides of one thing that Bronte was trying to tell us about. She tells us in such a way that we come back to her only novel time and time again to seek the meaning. Not to be confused with 'Jane Eyre'. Jane Eyre is the tale of an insipid who finally gets her man (big deal) despite puritannical hardship, and though its crie de coeur touches the heart, it never sets it alight. If however, you are interested in being burned, and if some teacher isn't force-feeding you this text, Wuthering Heights might just be the book for you.

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Summary: An interesting and emotional book
Review: I am a junior in high school and liked Wuthering Heights. The constant change of narrators makes the book confusing, but overall it IS worth the time. The book illustrates that life is not always a dream. Wuthering Heights show reality, confusion, and misguided love. It portrays that human imperfections can prevent happiness in life, and how true emotions are the window to a person's soul. This book illustrates that life does not follow a person's plans, and that life is not always perfect.

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Summary: Emily Bronte shows real genius
Review: This was really a great book. I started out with a negative attitude about reading it, because many English literature classics turn out being very boring or slow; not so with this one. It was so intense and original that I honestly had to force myself to close the book at night and get some sleep. One should not expect a likeness to Shakespeare's extraordinary skill of language, but it obviously was not written by an idiot. Overall it is easy reading, with a few sophisticated, rarely used words encountered every page or two. The book should be read by anyone who can appreciate true love, and the pain caused through selfishness, cruelty, and all-encompassing sorrow. Just about every feeling of emotion is covered in this great work, actually. Don't put much truth into what some reviews say about the ending. There truly could not have been a better one. Everything comes full-circle, as I see it, and it happens in such a way as to make any sharp reader satisfied. Check this book out from the library; or better yet, buy it so you can read it again, ten years down the line, when you've forgotten what it was even about.

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Summary: Not Bad...but also not Great!!
Review: I didn't not like this book, but I also didn't like it very much either. The characters were all confusing and Heathcliff was the worst one of all!! Catherine the daughter was a confused character, sometimes I think along with other readers......that Emily wrote this to compete with her sisterm b/c she didn't feel loved enough and had probelms of her own that she could onlt deal with by writing a book that basically describes her life and what happened in her life from Childhood to her adulthood. Emily Bronte is a great writer but this was not one of her great books. I would not recomend this book to those who do not like to read too much. If you like to read then you will like this book!!

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Summary: I'm Sorry
Review: I'm sorry but I just did not like this book. It feels sloppily written at times and sometimes I wonder if she wrote the book just to compete with her sister (hey you never know). The only thing that I can compliment this book on is it's character development, by the end of the book (if you can stand to read the whole thing) you feel like you know them personally.