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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë

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Nov 23, 2023 RJ - Slayer of Trolls rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: guardian-1000-read, 1001-books-read

“Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”

Steeped in the gothic tradition, Emily Bronte's only novel seems best described as a prose version of a early-19th Century Romantic poem, complete with a Byronic hero, but with more passion, more romance, more emotion, more feeling, more more MORE!!! Readers' reactions are often polarized, w ...more

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Apr 18, 2007 Suvi rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: gothic, _book-shelf, _great-britain, _favorites, novels, 1800s

"Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy."

There's been a lot of discussion whether Emily's gothic weather-beaten nightmare is a love story. To me it's not, at least not in the traditional sense, because it has very little of what you would associate with the word "love". It defies expectations and su ...more

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Jan 19, 2016 Nadine in NY Jones rated it it was amazing

Shelves: oh-unlikeable-you, psych-psych-psych, women-on-the-edge, classic, 1001-books, xxx-books-to-be-reread, all-time-favorites

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

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Mar 21, 2007 Rachel rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, 1001-books-to-read-before-you-die

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.

Almost 10 years later...

I got through it ...more

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Jan 07, 2009 Christian rated it it was ok

It's a very gloomy and depressing book. I'm not quite sure why it's such a classic. My least favorite Brontë book so far. ...more

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Oct 29, 2012 Jason rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: library, audio-book, bbc-100-classics, pbs-s-the-great-american-read

This was not really my cup of tea. Although I loved the reader of this audio edition, I didn't care for digesting the book this way. I liked the language used, but think something was lost in listening to this classic. From what I heard everyone was pissed the whole time yelling at each other. It was a very dramatic soap opera. Just not my thing. ...more

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Sep 12, 2014 Sandy rated it it was ok

Hard to believe I knew nothing about this book before reading it. Never saw any of the movies so really did not know what to expect. What a miserable bunch of people that conveniently seemed to die. I know you do not need to like the characters to enjoy a book but there was really no one worth liking. Ultimately, disappointed in this book.

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Jul 16, 2007 Kerith rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I absolutely hated this book the first time I read in high school - when I was still 'complaining' about it and comparing it to other books at year's end, I realized Wuthering Heights had touched me somehow. And, that I should give the book a second chance.

I've given it second and third chances, and while I can't relate to this romantic love that seems to make both miserable (and yet inspires Heathcliff to achieve beyond his humble origins), I find myself continuously drawn to the story and the ...more

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