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01-11-2007, 05:35 PM
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Mike, I think you're choosing to dismiss what is a valid argument simply because you can't be bothered to counter it. Don't be such a snob.
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01-12-2007, 09:31 AM
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wuthering heights is a great book. im studying it at the moment for my A level english. fortunatly i come from yorkshire so i find joseph very easy to understand. i can imagine it being hard to understand though if youre from elsewhere and i give credit to those who have taken the time to understand our dialect.
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01-12-2007, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by andreaypich
Mike C's description of WH's themes is spot on.
I read it at the age of 14 and then re-read it this year for university. I want to read it again now. It's probably one of my favourite novels. Has anyone watched the film? Does it do the book justice?
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I read Wuthering Heights when I was 13. There was a Pat Benatar cover of a Kate Bush song about the story, and I was curious. I quite liked it.
(And now see the song had been mentioned. Okay, there was a also a Fantasy Island episode where the woman wanted to be Cathy. Which is...odd.)
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03-08-2007, 10:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Caolan
Wuthering Heights is the classic I have read. As in the only one. I really enjoyed even though I found it kind of difficult to read. The only bit that annoyed me was the fact that Joseph's speech was written in accent, which is fair enough, only half the time I couldn't understand a thing he was saying.
I also hate it how people say 'You should always read the introduction.' So you do... and it gives away half the story.
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That was the last book I had to read for 10th grade English and I burned through it in a day since I procrastinated and the test was the next day.
I hated every moment of it, and it was one of the worst books I've read in my life, right up there with Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca... |
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03-09-2007, 05:12 AM
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Originally Posted by PandasAndChippo
I hated every moment of it, and it was one of the worst books I've read in my life, right up there with Daphne DuMaurier's Rebecca...
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In that case you may find something more to your liking here... http://www.evergreen.edu/library/gov...ringbooks.html |
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03-09-2007, 05:44 AM
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Heathcliff was a great character but Cathy was a whore.
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03-09-2007, 07:10 AM
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Interesting how people perceive characters differently. I saw Heathcliffe as a bully (with some reason) and Cathy as manipulative, but essentially good.
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03-12-2007, 08:21 PM
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I LOVE HEATHCLIFF
sorry, but I do.
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Ever now and then, I ponder the same thing, and I've come to the same conclusion:
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03-25-2007, 01:00 PM
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I adore Wuthering Heights. It was so utterly different from what I expected when I read it, but it still had me gripped. Heathcliff is no doubt the ultimate romantic hero and I think this book is probably the best example of the romantic genre.
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05-17-2007, 11:13 PM
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Quite frankly...I love this book. I relate to it. At first I didn't, I could not understand the love of Heathcliff, and then as I grew older, I did. Very Good Book! I rather emily than her sister.
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06-08-2007, 05:10 PM
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I really liked reading Wuthering Heights. I recently just finished Jane Eyre. I must say I liked Jane Eyre better. I could relate to Jane a lot more than I could relate to Catherine. But anyways, Wuthering Heights is AMAZING!!! Yes, I had trouble making out what Joseph was saying as well. Heathcliff is one of the best characters ever created! I never really liked Cathy that much. I really liked the first half of the book better than the second half. Well, if anyone hasn't read Wuthering Heights, I definitely recommend it. It isn't very confusing at all. I'm 16 and I had no trouble understanding it. One of the best romances ever!
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07-08-2007, 04:03 PM
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I just finished reading Wuthering Heights. Like, five minutes ago.
Which bites because I'm at work, so I'm trying really hard not to cry now.
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I quite liked this. And I loved the character (...) She came across as developed early on, which made the rest easy to read. I wonder if this development has anything to do with your forum name (...)
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07-09-2007, 06:20 AM
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Heathcliff is one of the best characters ever created!
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Indeed, and WH revealed one of life's eternal truths - women love bastards. |
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07-10-2007, 08:35 AM
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Yeah, but, I personally think Catherine was just a whacked up job to begin with.
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08-16-2007, 05:45 PM
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Wuthering Heights is one of my favourites! A beautiful novel, very dark and poignant but a very good read. It's not your typical everything-turns-out-to-be-all-well-and-good. Instead, it reveals the wild nature of desire and love too.
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