Wuthering Heights in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jan 24, 2008 Korie Brown rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I first read this in the fifth grade and understood none of it. I read it again as a sophomore in college and was completely blown away by the scope of the plot, the viciousness of the characters, and the modernity of the theme. Amazing. Are there six stars? (I must add that I am the ultimate Bronte fanatic. I've driven four hours out of my way to make a literary pilgrimage to the Bronte cottage. I've had lunch at the pub where Bran drank himself to death. I've read everything written by a perso ...more

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Jun 07, 2009 Debbie rated it did not like it · review of another edition

I originally read Wuthering Heights in high school and it has been "the only book I know I hate" whenever I find myself talking about such things. I remembered not liking the characters and finding both generations of Heathcliffs and Catherines unnecessarily dramatic and manipulative.

However, we grow up and change tastes and I thought I'd give it another try. No dice - got all the way through it again and didn't like it anymore. If anything, I like it less because I can see the main set(s) of l ...more

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Jan 24, 2009 Lisa rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classics

I first read this is in college not for a class, but because it was one of the classics that I was told I must read, and that I would either love it or hate it. I searched the college library for it and found it was MIA. Someone either loved it so much they kept it or hated it so much they saw fit to get rid of it.
The story is a gothic, psychological tale of love,and hate; life and death and the thin veil that separates the two.
By reading this a second time I am among those that love it. Not for ...more

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