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Mar 21, 2007
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Mar. 21, 2007: 1 star.
I'm sorry, but I usually love classics, but I could just not get through this one. I couldn't stand anyone in it, and it went on and on and on and on with people flinging themselves into hysteria and wringing their hands. I really wanted to finish it too, but I just couldn't. I got halfway through, which is better than the last time I tried, but I just have so many other books I really want to read. Maybe I'll try again in 10 years.
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I'm sorry, but I usually love classics, but I could just not get through this one. I couldn't stand anyone in it, and it went on and on and on and on with people flinging themselves into hysteria and wringing their hands. I really wanted to finish it too, but I just couldn't. I got halfway through, which is better than the last time I tried, but I just have so many other books I really want to read. Maybe I'll try again in 10 years.
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My first 5 star rating for a book with only loathsome characters!
I have never before rated a book 5 stars if I didn't love at least one character. I loathed all of the leading characters. I found little to be redeeming in any of them. Despite this, Emily Bronte made me have sympathy for all of them and hope for each of them to have a more desirable outcome. Her writing style was exquisite. And I loved the descriptions of the moors, the mansions, the people. I loved the story within a story style ...more
I have never before rated a book 5 stars if I didn't love at least one character. I loathed all of the leading characters. I found little to be redeeming in any of them. Despite this, Emily Bronte made me have sympathy for all of them and hope for each of them to have a more desirable outcome. Her writing style was exquisite. And I loved the descriptions of the moors, the mansions, the people. I loved the story within a story style ...more
This is a story of the Earnshaw and the Linton family who are quite isolated in their homes of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The homes represent the opposition that exists throughout the novel. There is a lot of death in the book but there is also the hopeful happy ending. That being said, I did feel the ending was a little bit off for me. The sudden decline and death of Heathcliff didn't make sense as it was presented. I see the need for the author to kill him off, I just didn't fee
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I've heard this called a great love story by many people but I don't agree that it is a love story. To me it's a story of obsession, bad choices and enormous grief. The grief parts were realistic but I didn't care about Heathcliff or Catherine. I also found the fact that the story was being told in retrospect by the housekeeper to be annoying.
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One of my favorite books. Gothic romance set in the British moors, relationships gone crazy
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