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Wuthering Heights
I've just finished WH, feeling that it was one of the canon that I hadn't read and should and can't help wondering what all the fuss was about. Lots of people being angry and selfish and seeing the consequences of that. It's my own fault though really... I expected it to be like Jane Eyre :)
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Abi
13 years ago
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@"wondering what all the fuss was about"
Part of the fuss may be, currently, Twilight-related, it's named as "Bella's favorite book" if I understood correctly, so you have a horde of fans reading it in droves and declaring to love it.Not that it doesn't deserve the attention, but one may wonder just how much of this professed love is sheer pack mentality, and how many would have really enjoyed it as just some random school-advised reading.
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We must be book twins! I first read Jane Eyre when I was about 13 years old and I loved it. It is still my favorite book almost 20 years later. I'd heard a lot about Wuthering Heights, so I figured I'd read that next; it was written by Charlotte's sister after all. I was horrified and disgusted by the twisted relationships in WH and couldn't understand why I'd heard this book was so romantic. I read WH twice more in HS and college, and I finally can appreciate it as a work of literature, but I still seethe whenever I hear anyone call the book "romantic."
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I researched WH because of "Bella" and decided the family dynamic of the authors were interesting. I read Jane Eyre and loved it. then WH and I agree what a huge dissapointment.
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Perhaps the perople who are saying how wonderful is Wuthering Heights have actually been more impressed by the movie with Laurence Olivier and are projecting him onto Heathcliff in the book?
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