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If you want to spend time with perhaps the greatest drama queens in literary history, then embrace this book. Any possible psychological depth is drowned under the over-the-top rhetoric and outrageously high-pitched melodrama generated by its main characters. Some of that excess almost makes the book trashily engrossing, but the exaggeration is so great it's hard to take seriously or be moved by.
Whether it was attempting to be the ultimate expression of dark, complicated romantic love or a hars ...more
Whether it was attempting to be the ultimate expression of dark, complicated romantic love or a hars ...more
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I really shouldn't have read this again. Reading this as a cynical 39-yearold, there is nothing dramatic or romantic about the poor gothic entourage under Heathcliff's tyranny; I just keep reaching for my DSM IV in order to properly diagnose these wrecks and lunatics.
And god, the song is impossible on karaoke night... ...more
And god, the song is impossible on karaoke night... ...more
Is there a better book than this? If so I can't recall having read it. This story haunted me day and night while I was reading it. What a powerful story filled with deep characters.
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Vesra (When She Reads)
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Oct 17, 2010
Ashley
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Stasha
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Caitlin
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Abby
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~4.5
