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Nov 10, 2011

karen rated it:

just a bad idea all around.

my own damn fault, really - i should have done some research before ordering this. it is not a graphic novel version of wuthering heights. it is more like an illustrated cliffs notes version of wuthering heights, put out by barron's. it's not as though they commissioned a proper illustrator for it, and made a genuine graphic adaptation, which is a bummer. sorry, nick spender, but you aren't charles burns...

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Oct 30, 2007

Larissa rated it:

Certain novels come to you with pre-packaged expectations. They just seem to be part of literature's collective unconscious, even if they are completely outside of your own cultural referents. I, for instance, who have no particular knowledge of--or great love for--romantic, Anglo-Gothic fiction, came to Wuthering Heights with the assumption that I was picking up a melancholy ghost story of thwarted, passionate love and eternal obsession. Obsession turned out to be only accurate part of this pre More...

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Dec 07, 2009

karen rated it:

"all i care about in this goddamn life are me, my drums, and you"...

if you don't know that quote, you're probably too young to be reading this and isn't is past your bedtime or shouldn't you be in school or something?

but that quote, hyper-earnest cheese - that is romance. wuthering heights is something more dangerous than romance. it's one long protracted retaliation masquerading as passion. and goddamn do i love it. i can't believe i haven't reviewed it before More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Jake rated it:

I first read this in AP English Literature - senior year of high school. This book is dense and thick and confusing, and with a class full of haters, it was hard to wrap my head around it. I subsequently read it three or four more times for classes in college and every time I read it, I loved it more. I always found some new, fascinating piece of the story I had never picked up on.

The last time I read it, I suddenly realized that there were many hints and clues that Heathcliff cou More...

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Dec 04, 2011

Leanne rated it:

Most people either adored or hated this book. But I think, it really depends on how you interpret this book as a whole- is Heathcliff an evil, wrathful, raging villain with no redeeming qualities or is he a dark, wild, passionate, and cleverly-drawn antihero? What about the romance between Catherine and Heathcliff? Is Catherine and Heathcliff's love abusive, vile, and much too dramatic, or is it raw and passionate, one of the greatest love stories of all time? And does Emily Bronte write with ho More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Chelsea rated it:

I've tried it three times. I know people are obsessed with it. I hate everyone in the book - and I just can't care about a book where I actually hate the characters.

And, sure, I get the interpretation that as terrible as Heathcliff and Cathy are, it's their love that redeems them, and isn't that romantic.

No.

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Jul 02, 2008

Ellen rated it:

I never expected this book to be as flagrantly, unforgivably bad as it was.

To start, Bronte's technical choice of narrating the story of the primary characters by having the housekeeper explain everything to a tenant 20 years after it happened completely kills suspense and intimacy. The most I can say is that to some extent this functions as a device to help shroud the story and motives from the reader. But really, at the time literary technique hadn't quite always gotten around to ac More...

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Feb 07, 2008

Kellie rated it:

I read this book for my AP Literature class. I loved the teacher, loved the subject matter, and loved pretty much everything else we had read, so I had high hopes for this book. I must say, I made a genuine and sincere effort to like this book, I really did. I got half way through with no hope in sight, yet I perservered, hoping the second half would show promise in the next generation. No such luck. Although nothing tops the finale "love scene" between Heathcliff and Katherine, w More...

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Oct 14, 2007

Russell rated it:

I have a confession: I never read this book in high school, so this is the first time I’ve read it.

This is a stellar book. Heathcliff is a ‘moral poison’ of the worst sort, and yet there is a part of me that can understand why he was so obsessed and why his obsession led to a hardness and a madness of mind and morals. I can almost appreciate his will, the desire to see his plan execute to the final end, regardless of the cost to others, or to himself. Almost.

His withholdi More...

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May 14, 2010

Elizabeth rated it:

This review will contain spoilers but it's Wuthering Heights people, if you don't already know the story, move along now, there's nothing to see here.

It's a train wreck, and I'm the sicko gawking at the barrier and asking people what they've seen and lingering until the emergency crews are gone, and eventually getting dragged into the police station as a suspect because no one can be that interested in the disaster without having contributed to it in some way. My name, officer? Why, More...

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Jan 28, 2008

Samantha rated it:

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Oct 16, 2011

indri rated it:

#2011-19#

Seseorang yang tidak pernah dicintai, akan sulit untuk memahami bagaimana caranya mencintai.

Heathcliff, tanpa nama belakang, ditemukan di pinggir jalanan London oleh Mr. Earnshaw, pemilik Wuthering Heights. Dibesarkan dengan kebencian keluarga Earnshaw terhadap dirinya, kecuali Mr. Earnshaw yang berumur pendek.
Tumbuh bersama Catherine Earnshaw yang riang dan ketus, yang menjadikannya teman bermain, kenakalan anak kecil, seseorang yang ia tidak ingin kehil More...

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Jun 02, 2010

Kerstin rated it:

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Jul 13, 2010

Ben rated it:

I stopped at page 42. I couldn't stand the writing. Not only was it difficult to decipher -- call me dumb if you must -- but sentences, even paragraphs, that could have been summed-up with a few words were expounded upon pompously for pages. This is a shame, because I love dark love stories -- and that, along with what I had heard about this novel's strong character development, and its generally strong reputation -- made me think I'd love it.

But I can't take anymore of the prose, More...

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Jan 15, 2009

Eliszard rated it:

Ah the classics. Everybody can read their own agenda in them. So, first a short plot guide for dinner conversations when one needs to fake acculturation, and then on to the critics’ view.
A woman [1:] is in love with her non-blood brother [2:] but marries her neighbor [3:] whose sister [4:] marries the non-blood brother [2:]; their [1,3:] daughter [5:] marries their [2,4:] son [6:]; meanwhile, their [1,2:] elder brother marries and has a son [7:]. Then everybody dies, 1 of bad temper, 4 of More...

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Sep 21, 2007

Jackie "the Librarian" rated it:

If you think that spitefulness is romantic, and that people destroying their lives is dramatic, go ahead and read this book. But don't say I didn't warn you.

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May 19, 2008

J rated it:

When one thinks of books of the past, one typically thinks that today’s novels and entertainments are far more violent and vicious. There is a tendency to think of our own generation (or the one or two immediately preceding ours) as having invented sexual perversions, brutal literature, and genre bending and mixing. No one truly believes this intently, but it is a kind of humming substratum to our lives. That previous ages were “simpler” and “more innocent” and “better” and “more pure and wholes More...

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May 18, 2008

Mike rated it:

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Dec 17, 2009

Nicole rated it:

The first time I read "Wuthering Heights" (in English class, senior year) I could not stand it. Turns out, I couldn't stand my Senior Year English teacher. (Had to) re-read it for a Gothic Lit course in college and, though dreading it, I had the complete opposite reaction to the book.

It's now one of my top five favorite books I've ever read.

It is so layered and complex - emotionally, psychologically, technically - that every time I read it (my copy is so bat More...

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Dec 16, 2009

Aerin rated it:

This book could have ended halfway through, and while that wouldn't have made me like it any better, at least it wouldn't have earned itself a place on my Most! Hated! Books! Ever! list. As it is, though, this book is not only entirely too long, it is boring, and whiny, and there are at least TWO characters for every name. Two Catherines. Two Lintons. Two Heathcliffs. So it's way more confusing than it needs to be! I guess if you're into moody tragic romances where nothing ever happens, yo More...

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Nov 05, 2011

Shovelmonkey1 rated it:

As a youth I was very resilient to classic literature. Why? The reasons I would now give are as follows:

1. It was written a long time ago and therefore in my yoof-mind ( which FYI was a tight nucleus of hormones surrounded by a swirling miasma of rage)it was the book equivalent of black and white TV -dated, not relevant and generally unappealing to the eyes.

2. My teachers raved about it. Nothing is guaranteed to make you bang your head against the blackboard more than a dish More...

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Mar 02, 2010

Ceridwen rated it:

A quick disclaimer: I betcha there are some spoilers in here, but I absolutely refuse to hit the spoiler box on books this old.

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My sister and I recently got into one of those stupid cage matches about which was better: Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. Before everyone starts popping their monocles and baying about how this is a stupid comparison & as meaningless as comparing chalk and cheese, I know. I totally know. But five hours in a car will send conversations to r More...

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Nov 02, 2011

Michela rated it:

"Cime Tempestose"- Emily Bronte (1847)

Quando leggi "Cime Tempestose" a 15 anni, lo apprezzi.
Quando leggi "Cime Tempestose" a 25 anni, lo ami, pazzamente.

Secondo me, la differenza sta tutta nel fatto, che se non hai mai provato,almeno una volta, un amore folle e disperato non possiamo addentrarci dentro questo libro pienamente. Se non sappiamo cosa significa struggersi per amore, come potremmo anche solo lontanamente rispettare Heatcliff More...

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Apr 08, 2010

Silvana rated it:

I feel good after reading this book. It's as good as the movie (yay! usually the movie version is worse), I'm talking about the one with Ralph Fiennes and Juliet Binoche.

Anyway, now I know why I dislike Jane Austen's novels. Wuthering Heights offers a more interesting theme, it does not focus in Victorian culture and ways of society *cough* which is boring*cough* and it has more intriguing characters.

The romance is just awesome. Who could forget Heathcliff's dedication and u More...

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Dec 16, 2009

karenology rated it:

Melodramatic to the max. This novel couldn't help but be; seriously, have you seen where the Bronte sisters lived? Some little crappy town (literally), where the streets were full of sewage and filth, in a house planted next to hundreds of rotting graves (crammed into a tiny cemetery and stacked on top of each other). The only escape Emily and her sisters had were the moors, which were "wild" and sufficiently far enough from the town to provide clean air, free of corpses and cholera More...

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Nov 29, 2010

Mariel rated it:

I'm afraid of this story and of these people. I read WH when I was fourteen. That the pins still prick speaks of it's power over me. I could easily take in the insanity, the ferventness... But I hate them. Child of abusive relationship here. I hate them. If they jumped off a cliff (Heath), I would not Thelma and Louise it too. I hated to be suffocated. WH smothered me. Power or not, did I need that kind of passion? Hells no. Some things are too bad of an influence. Happy Thanksgiving! I'm going More...

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Sep 10, 2011

Alex rated it:

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Sep 11, 2011

K. rated it:

I understand why many people hate this book. Catherine and Heathcliff are monstrous. Monstrous. You won't like them because they are unlikable. They are irrational, self-absorbed, malicious and pretty much any negative quality you can think a person is capable of possessing without imploding. They seek and destroy and act with no thought to consequence. And I find it fascinating that Emily Bronte chose them to be her central protagonists.

When this was first published it was met with an More...

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Mar 16, 2011

KatLynne rated it:

Finished my re-read today and what I had forgotten about this novel is "brilliance".

How often do we find an author who can make your heart bleed with tenderness and compassion for a character while only a few chapters later, your greatest desire is to thrash said character in the throes of anger. And the remarkable thing is that while you are wanting to hurt him in some measure to convey your dislike for his dastardly deeds, still inside and trying to lure its way to th More...

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Jul 18, 2008

Jeff rated it:

Wuthering Heights was one of the books that I was supposed to have read in high-school. I didn't. Too cool for that! "Just give me Cliff Notes!", was my motto. But those classmates who did read it loved it. So...years later, while browsing an absolutely HUGE bookstore in New York City (wish I could remember the name of that store) I happened upon a copy and decided to discover what my classmates saw in it; see what I was missing. Wow! I wasn't sorry. This has become one of my a More...

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