Wuthering Heights in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

May 01, 2009 Jenny rated it it was ok · review of another edition

I read this primarily because Bella did in New Moon and it was time for another classic. I read it in 3 days. It was ok, but sad. It was a kind of Great Expectations theme, where love is kind of forced on people. It had a very sad ending, but an interesting story line.

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Apr 10, 2011 Amanda rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 5-stars, favorites, ap-literature, fiction, teacher-reads, classics, exit-pursued-by-bear

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Another read for my Seniors off the 35 Most Read AP Lit Test books, and this one for the 2nd/3rd time in my life. While I understand why people deeply love this as the most tragic love story (that isn't Romeo & Juliet), I don't really see much of a truly helpful romance or even filial tale: except by the merits of doing the opposite of everything you see within these pages.

Though, as a premier note that earns it's own full star for me, I adore the level of vocabulary used in this n ...more

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Aug 03, 2008 Nicole rated it liked it

Shelves: 1001-list, classics

I had read this as a teenager and didn't remember a thing, so just reread with a friend. Yes, you could make the argument for it being a romance with a lasting love that even death cannot end. However, you can also make the argument that what Katherine and Healthcliff had was not true love but cruel relationship in which they punished each other and those around them. That perhaps the better examples of love were the children that succeeded them that were able to find some goodness where they di ...more

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