Wuthering Heights

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Call Number: Fiction / Bronte, Emily, Teen Fiction / Bronte, Emily, Teen Book / Fiction / Classic / Bronte, Emily
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch

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Cathy is a beautiful and willful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children. Emily Brontë’s novel is a stunningly original and shocking exploration of obsessive passion.

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Bleck submitted by ldupuis44 on July 9, 2011, 9:57am I don't like this book. I read it in highschool and didn't like it. Then I read it again to see if maybe I was just too young, and nope...I still hated it. It's like reading a soap opera in the 17th century. Yuck

Better than I expected! submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 26, 2013, 9:10am I read this for book club, which was great as I have often thought that I should take the time to go back and read more "classics." Wuthering Heights worried me, though. My memory of it from high school English class was of absolute drudgery and boredom.

Luckily, this was FAR more readable than I remembered. I had to pay attention, but it wasn't the slog I was concerned about. There is enough action and interaction to pull the story forward, and the cast of characters are well developed.

But in the end, I still largely didn't CARE. It occurred to me along the way to wonder, "If this story was set on a space station, would I like it better?" (as much of my reading is SF/F). I vaguely think yes, and finally figured out why. Stories set in the future are really always trying to tell us something about NOW. Books that were written so far in the past tell me about THEN, which is not a time I care so very much about.

Still, I'd like to work a few more classics back into my reading list... if I can ever make the time beyond the bookscape already on my To Read shelf and list!

so-so submitted by Fishing Rainbow on June 12, 2015, 11:04am It wasn't the best book I've ever read but it was still good. Everyone should read it to make there own opinions on it.

The Great American Read: One Selection submitted by ekjensen on August 15, 2018, 9:15pm I read this book because of the PBS list for 2018, and it was one of the classics. It had a tedious start, as I kept letting the romantic aspect of the classic movie with Olivier and Oberon get in the way. Nonetheless, it was truly a gothic soap opera and Mr Heathcliff is considerably brutal especially by the end. I was enlightened that the book covered a second generation, and am wondering if that part of the book will ever make it to the cinema/film.

wuthering heights submitted by qmomo on July 2, 2019, 5:47pm it was very interesting to read this after forming an impression on it based on its impact on pop culture and see how much the actual text differed from the information gleaned via osmosis. for instance cathy and heathcliff were the only the characters i had heard of prior to reading it but there's a whole lot more plot than just their relationship and a substantial amount of the novel focuses on other chatacters. it was an interesting read, although charlotte remains my favorite bronte.

finding it hard to sympathize submitted by apknapp on August 16, 2020, 6:21pm Full disclosure, I haven't read this in many years, so the plot details are long gone. This is more a summary of the book's lasting impression on me.

Without giving away specifics, Cathy takes Heathcliff completely for granted, then tragedy strikes, and he spends the rest of his life angry and miserable. It’s the literary exemplar of manufactured drama—they deliberately misunderstand each other just for the fun of being angry and hurt, and refuse, until it's too late, to have the simple conversation that would straighten it all out.

I’ll admit, when I was 13 or so, the idea of some gruff, tormented man spending his life pining for me had a certain appeal. But from a modern adult perspective, it’s pretty hard to stay suspended in the appeal of that.

For my money, if you want gothic romance, Jane Eyre is the better choice--Jane and Rochester are much more sympathetic characters; Cathy's a selfish twit, and Heathcliff is just a seething ball of bitter.

Alright submitted by KatieD on August 19, 2021, 3:12pm I did enjoy the supernatural elements of the story, but overall it was a rather bleak tale. I would recommend keeping a list of characters or a family tree, because a lot of them have similar names and it's hard to keep track of everyone. I'm glad that I can say I've read it, but I probably won't be reading it again.

It's About the Character Development submitted by carcat15 on June 15, 2022, 10:56am Going in to this book, I knew that there was not much of a plot, so it was a little easier to appreciate the character development. That being said, it was difficult to understand what was going on when I read this the first time through, and the whole basis of the love between Cathy and Heathcliff seemed more situational than genuine.

Dear God, the ANGST submitted by amandasaurus on June 17, 2022, 9:25pm Everybody is constantly WHINING. I tried, I swear, but I just couldn’t get past the melancholy of it all.