tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post589082726734446256..comments2023-10-02T16:23:40.035+01:00Comments on Just Me: Wuthering Heights - Emily BronteThe Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04550480429586819194noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-12639408654190349682011-06-06T23:14:32.057+01:002011-06-06T23:14:32.057+01:00Yes, I remember being surprised in much the same w...Yes, I remember being surprised in much the same way when I read this. The writing is beautiful but the storyline is crazy and I didn't come away with that "wow, Cathy and Heathcliff's love was so beautiful" thing everyone else talked about. Definitely prefer Charlotte and Anne Bronte.Nose in a bookhttp://www.noseinabook.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-86333235805005071652011-05-23T14:43:31.183+01:002011-05-23T14:43:31.183+01:00Yep it is garbage. Jane Eyre is fairly readable if...Yep it is garbage. Jane Eyre is fairly readable if you're desperate to try out another Bronte but honestly I think they barely count as literature.<br /><br />I've got a fairly low opinion of Thomas Hardy too but he's better.mooncalfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01150392487909235200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-87673593541864690402011-05-22T20:08:51.340+01:002011-05-22T20:08:51.340+01:00I just came across your great blog. I was pretty ...I just came across your great blog. I was pretty sure that I had read wuthering heights but none of this sounds familiar ... Maybe I was too young and have forgotten and will have to go back to it (someday when I have time to read again)Michellehttp://iripple.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-36825905032484066092011-05-22T09:41:03.220+01:002011-05-22T09:41:03.220+01:00Hmm, I've wanted to read this for a while but ...Hmm, I've wanted to read this for a while but I think it's only because of Kate Bush ... and from your description I wonder if I'm best off sticking with her. I knew that Cathy dies, but Total Revelation that there are other characters in the book! How has this happened? EVERYONE must be faking it!Lucy in the Cloudshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12950976124841220605noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-68767761630519616372011-05-21T23:53:23.169+01:002011-05-21T23:53:23.169+01:00Wuthering Heights starts of quite hard because it ...Wuthering Heights starts of quite hard because it is written in a style that matches the first narrator: Lockwood. I almost put the book down after the 1st page at the age of 17 - I thought screw this, I'm never going to be able to read classics if they're all written this way! When Nelly Dean then takes over it picks up pace because she's more colloquial and one for spinning a story. Personally, I think it is an amazing book. Emily Bronte's only book and of all the Bronte's I think she was the genius but then, I am one for drama. I still vividly remember the last few scenes of Heathcliff and Catherine and the drama and violence of them. I think if you had studied it at school you might have really grown to love it (or loath it). It was my first serious classic and it is my favourite book. I really enjoyed reading your impressions though! xxxThe Curious Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16920550974303475865noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-86856479192024090942011-05-21T09:31:41.926+01:002011-05-21T09:31:41.926+01:00I did this book for A level English Literature for...I did this book for A level English Literature for fun after I left school. If I had done it at school I wouldn't have like it at all, and if I had read it on my own, a lot of it would have gone over my head. I did enjoy studying it with a teacher who gave me explanations. I remember a lesson about the imagery of windows ie Heathcliffe looking in through the windows and the eyes being the windows to the soul etc. Its not an easy book to read.xxxDianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11269721218424514656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-18961201930506884442011-05-21T08:34:36.119+01:002011-05-21T08:34:36.119+01:00I have so often started and re-started Wuthering H...I have so often started and re-started Wuthering Heights and never got to the end so I skipped through much of this post and read your comments. I think I really must start and finish it once and for all!<br /><br />I too always get the Kate Bush song in my head when I think about it. My childhood dance teacher created the swaying dance that Kate does in the video. It always makes me chuckle to think how similar our dance exam routines were! xPinkCatJohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12323032970862942723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-4038204815419993752011-05-20T21:09:55.844+01:002011-05-20T21:09:55.844+01:00I think the only thing I remember about this book ...I think the only thing I remember about this book is creepy dead hands tapping at a window and honestly, I think that might have been from a tv adaptation rather than reading the book because I have NO recollection of most of the plot that you mention! I think I must be one of those dreaded fakers you mention.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11337968500120821387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-84767020323758213382011-05-20T20:31:58.945+01:002011-05-20T20:31:58.945+01:00I couldn't really get to grips with Wuthering ...I couldn't really get to grips with Wuthering Heights properly. I can see why it's a classic - it's so INTENSE - but I found it just too unremittingly bleak. I always thought it was supposed to be romantic, but Cathy and Heathcliff (and their relationship) are, not to put too fine a point on it, insane! I totally understand the depiction as love of a kind of madness but if anyone thinks THAT'S romantic, they're crazy (or they've never had to experience that kind of 'love' in real life and just think it would be ~so amazing and passionate~).<br /><br />I have to warn you that Tess of the D'Urbervilles involves lots of terrible things befalling the heroine, but it is an absolutely wonderful, brilliant, beautiful and evocative book - I hope you love it as much as I did.Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04766892036985872760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530190092034193112.post-6624932655787981462011-05-20T20:19:17.467+01:002011-05-20T20:19:17.467+01:00I went to school in the Yorkshire Dales and had to...I went to school in the Yorkshire Dales and had to study this. My romantic teenage soul thought this was brilliant, until I had to read the book. And several years later, I still can't work out whether I actually *like* it... you totally hit the nail on the head!Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00794932472418700772noreply@blogger.com