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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

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Nov 24, 2011 Emily rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Don't think I can recommend this despite it's "classic" status. It's well written but so many of the characters are SO unlikeable/unsympathetic that I really didn't enjoy reading this. Heathcliff in particular was pure evil and I kept hoping he would get some kind of comeuppance in the end. If a book makes me root for someone to be killed I'm not sure that's a good thing. Also it moved really slow in parts with no obvious plot line to pull it along. I liked Jane Eyre a lot better. ...more

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Jan 08, 2012 Kathy rated it liked it

Yes, a tale of revenge......

This is one weird story......I read somewhere that perhaps Heathcliff was black? Tis possible.

I still don't get where this is a "great" novel. I really don't.

It's a dark tale about twisted ppl living in isolation on the moors of England, one more nasty than the next. There is no compassion to be found. Just weirdness and meaness.

I suppose Heath digging up the dead Catherine and hugging her corpse is considered romantic? Yuck......

Heath is unkind, cruel and vengeful. N ...more

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