Wuthering Heights

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Summary: Excellent, but confusing.
Review: The book was a great read, but I ran into trouble with the letter (finding the end, in this publication) and all the characters with the same names. I reccommend it, but not for someone who's interested in a light read. Very heavy.

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Summary: An excellent book, but very complicated.
Review: I enjoyed the book immensly, but felt that it was rather complicated. Too many characters with the same name. Too much writing in dialect. Overall, enjoyable.

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Summary: A very touching romance written by Emily Bronte.
Review: I really enjoyed this book, because Emily Bronte writes about her character's good and bad sides. Catherine Earnshaw wasn't a very good person in my opinion, but on the other hand, her love for Heathcliff was really touching. Heathcliff himself was a pretty queer human being, he had many faults, but loved Catherine with a love that was even more than love, which spanned life and death. I really enjoyed this book.

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Summary: The greatest gothic romance of all time
Review: The book Wuthering Heights, though a classic, is as perennial as the Bible itself. From many covers, it appears a feminine novel. Not so! Not so! The novel encompasses a broad range of subjects amongst which the most profound is the effects of prejedice on humanity. Throughout the book, which basically, once started, takes three addictive days, themes of love and hate protrude from the pages. Though a first-person narrative, the novel becomes for the majority, a recollection of events in the past as dictated to the narrator. I assure you, once you read this book, you will relate to these words: pity Heathcliffe!

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Summary: Never again!
Review: I began reading--"though you mayn't believe it," to quote Lewis Carroll's Mock Turtle--at the age of 1 and 9 months. Since then I have read literally thousands of books. And of them all, "Wuthering Heights" is my least favorite. The characters are so unpleasant and cruel to each other that reading the book is a seemingly endless nightmare. It seems that almost everyone in the story eventually dies some physically or psychologically horrible death, and the two major characters other than the two first-person narrators get engaged to each other at the end in an attempt to give the book a bizarre happy ending. About the only good thing about the book is its intriguing narrative structure, in which a man sets down in his diary a long first-person narrative told him by a woman who sometimes repeats briefer stories told her in the first person by others, such as Catharine. Even this, though, is rendered irritating by the fact that the diarist is such an boring and annoying character. I would never have continued reading this book beyond the first few chapters had it not been a school assignment, and I felt a greater sense of relief when I finished it than on any other occasion in my life. To quote what C. S. Lewis once wrote on the last page of a book he had read (I forget which one), "Never again."

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Summary: Outstanding!
Review: Wuthering Heights is the pinnacle of British literature. It is more than a book, it is an entity, an institution. A definite must-read

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Summary: If you are bored...try Wuthering Heights
Review: I read Wuthering Heights when I was 15. Although I can't totally understand it (my English is poor) and need to guess those Yorkshire accent, I still like it and have finished it within a week. If you are bored by those silly, girlish love story, read Wuthering Heights.

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Summary: Beautiful writing, beautiful romance!
Review: Wurthering Heights was a wonderful book. Catherine and Heathcliff's undying love was moving. Bronte did a great job making you love and hate the chatacters at the same time.

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Summary: It is not about hate, It is about the power of love
Review: A very good book about the powerful emotion of love. If you read into the book and some of the deeper meanings involved, you will see its value.

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Summary: Disappointed
Review: It seems like most enjoyed this book. I am a lover of great books. I fell in love with Jane Eyre and figured a great mind for romance MUST run in the family. For years people have asked me if I have ever read Wuthering Heights. Well, no but finally a few weeks ago I sat down and within the first 200 pages I was furious. I am so dumbfounded that I waited and drewled my whole life to soak up this book that everyone tells me is the best love story ever told. I honestly cried because I thought I must be the only person in the world who didn't like it. I mean is it just me, or is the pace of the book REALLY slow and the writing terribly dull? I so desperately wanted to believe this book would live up to its reputation and I am still miserable just thinking about the hours and hours I sat searching for a good chapter. Iam sorry to all you British Lit. fanatics but this one just doesn't do it for me.er 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!!