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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

Start date: December 1, 2019

Finish date: December 31, 2019

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Oct 29, 2016 Matthew rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: library, classic, 2016, audio

Misery, duplicity, revenge, unhealthy family relationships - Wuthering Heights has it all!

Whenever I hear the name Brontë, I start thinking about classic books, with ladies and gentlemen courting each other . . . but, I guess I need to stop confusing Brontë with Austin.

This book is brutal. Every page is an argument, a dark plot, a deathly ill character, or an actual death. There is no joy in Wuthering Heights!

Writing wise, it was pretty good. Not my usual style, but I like to knock out a classic ...more

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Dec 27, 2015 Phil J rated it it was amazing

Shelves: classic

Bad people in love! Obsession! Jealousy! Hatred! Revenge! Furious ravings! Ghosts of regret! Death by misery! Isolation and rage! Tales of drunkenness and cruelty! If Die Die My Darling is your favorite love song, then this is the romance novel for you.

Die, die, die my darling
Don't utter a single word
Die, die, die my darling
Just shut your pretty mouth
I'll be seeing you again
I'll be seeing you in Hell

[Two things I had in college: this poster and no girlfriend.]

I read this book as an anti-comedy ...more

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Dec 16, 2020 Michael Finocchiaro rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: novels, english-19th-c, fiction, gothic

I know that for many, Wuthering Heights, with the volcanic Heathcliff/Catherine romance at its center, is a cornerstone of 19th century English literature. I had a hard time following the characters (3 Catherines, 3 Lintons, etc) whose confusion of names probably is an allegory to the misty wastes of the English moors where Emily and her sisters grew up and where the novel takes place. There was an interesting Russian doll narrative technique of stories within stories, but the high drama never r ...more

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