Wuthering Heights in A Little Bit Of This

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Bront毛

Start date: October 1, 2016

Finish date: October 31, 2016

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Jun 28, 2012 Celeste rated it did not like it

Shelves: classics-i-ve-read, never-again

Unpopular opinion time. If this is one of your favorite books, I apologize in advance, and you might want to look away now.

If you follow my reviews, you know that I generally love everything. Very rarely do I hate a book. Well, I hated this one. Seriously, it was awful. It felt like pulling teeth trying to get myself to finish it. But finish it I (finally) did, and here are my thoughts.

One of my favorite classics of all time is Jane Eyre, written by another of the Bront毛 sisters, so I had reall Unpopular opinion time. If this is one of your favorite books, I apologize in advance, and you might want to look away now.

If you follow my reviews, you know that I generally love everything. Very rarely do I hate a book. Well, I hated this one. Seriously, it was awful. It felt like pulling teeth trying to get myself to finish it. But finish it I (finally) did, and here are my thoughts.

One of my favorite classics of all time is Jane Eyre, written by another of the Bront毛 sisters, so I had really high hopes for this book in spite of my past with it. I鈥檝e started this book three times before, and never could get past the first fifty pages. I should have trusted myself and let three strikes against it be enough.

I have heard my whole life that this book was such a sad and beautiful Gothic romance. Um, nope. This is not a romantic novel. Heathcliff is not a romantic character. He is possessive and manipulative and just plain hateful. There were absolutely no redeeming qualities to be found in him. How romanticized this character has been portrayed by other works of literature infuriates me. This is why girls think possessive, abusive relationships are okay. ABUSE IS NEVER OKAY, and Heathcliff abuses everyone in his life. I honestly believe that Humbert Humbert from Lolita has more redeeming qualities than Heathcliff, and he鈥檚 a child rapist! Not that I think that Lolita is a romantic book either, and people who do completely freak me out. Eew. My point is, Heathcliff is a terrible person, and I cannot fathom why anyone would view him as a romantic character.

But Heathcliff isn鈥檛 the only person at fault. Catherine is terrible, as well. If it wasn't for her selfishness, the pain experienced by so many others in her life could have been avoided. All of the characters were pretty awful. There were a few who had goodness in their core, but they were either portrayed as weak or forced to harden past their 鈥渨eakness鈥�. Goodness is not weakness. I choose to believe that most people are at their core genuinely good, or that they would like to be. This novel conveys pretty much the exact opposite. Also, random side note, but I absolutely hated any time Joseph came onto the scene, because his bastardized grammar made my brain try to vomit. Ugh.

Wuthering Heights was without a doubt one of the most depressing, infuriating, horrible books I鈥檝e ever read. I give it points for enduring, I suppose, but I鈥檒l never understand why on earth it ever became, much less remained, popular. I鈥檓 obviously in the minority here, through. If you love this book, more power to you. But I have no problem never reading it again. Maybe I鈥檒l donate my copy to the library鈥�

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Jul 05, 2017 Suzie Shatarevyan rated it it was amazing

Shelves: victorian-literature

Emily Bront毛 is a genius! While it's difficult to like a character like Heathcliff, I savored reading this book. I had a sense that she poured her heart and soul into writing this novel. I've been on a Bront毛 sisters kick this year, and I have to say that I have not been disappointed. When in between readings you can't stop thinking about the characters, you know it's good. It's no wonder this novel is a masterpiece of English literature. ...more

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Apr 04, 2024 Ashley rated it it was ok

I wanted so badly to love this book. The decades of hype, the in depth discussions, the amount of people whose favorite classic this is. I wanted all of that. Nope. It鈥檚 just fancy, ancient words of incest, man-babies, and mental illness. I genuinely don鈥檛 understand the hype, someone please help me understand. Where was the true love? It couldn鈥檛 have been Heathcliff鈥檚 for Catherine that everyone chalks this book up to. It just can鈥檛 be. The excuses, the fits, the rage, the manipulation, the ex ...more

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