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I was so relieved to be done with this book. I'm giving it three stars simply for literary technique. I didn't care for any of the characters at all. I felt sorry for them during their childhood, detested them as teenagers, and wanted nothing to do with them as adults. There's melodrama and mutually destructive relationships galore. And like in all Victorian (and a few other periods) literature, if someone goes out in the rain and catches a cold they will die! Or they will be permanently weakene
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Wuthering Heights is branded as a romance, but I did not enjoy any romance here. Maybe I did when I read it the first time, many years ago, as a young adult. The so-called passion is more about Heathcliff’s powerful, passionate cruelty. He is a beast in the desolate, wild moors.
Brontë’s selection of characters is genious. She has the story told from the point of view of a servant and a tenant, who have their own thoughts about the people they describe. I love that Brontë is bringing in a second ...more
Brontë’s selection of characters is genious. She has the story told from the point of view of a servant and a tenant, who have their own thoughts about the people they describe. I love that Brontë is bringing in a second ...more
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