Wuthering Heights

[M]

Why have I started to like Wuthering Heights? I hated it previously but now I am starting to enjoy the madness of these mentalists.

[devogue]

First thought:

Kate Bush Minge.

Mmmmm.

[M]

Yeh, thanks.

[stripes4]

The book or the film?

[devogue]

Why have I started to like Wuthering Heights? I hated it previously but now I am starting to enjoy the madness of these mentalists.

My second thought is that it is the most memorably atmospheric book I have ever read. Bronte creates a perfect world - it is just dripping with mid nineteenth century Yorkshireness.

Although I can see the appeal of Heathcliff to women who like a bad boy, I always found Catherine to be a strangely limp character.

It's the only book by the Bronte sisters that ever appealed to me.

[DRSB]

[M]

I think when I was young, the thought of people fucking one another up so royally frightened me somewhat. Now I find it rivetting. It's very dark but not as depressing as, say Jude the Obscure.

[devogue]

I think when I was young, the thought of people fucking one another up so royally frightened me somewhat. Now I find it rivetting. It's very dark but not as depressing as, say Jude the Obscure.

At least there is a wee bit of fantasy in WH to cut through the bleakness.

The unrelenting depression in Jude and Sons and Lovers just has me reaching for a rope.

[M]

The unrelenting depression in Jude and Sons and Lovers just has me reaching for a rope.

[klr]

I never really "got" it myself at school, and TBH I still don't. Oddly enough, some of the novels I read years later (Sons and Lovers) seemed much more accessible.

[hadespussercats]

Why have I started to like Wuthering Heights? I hated it previously but now I am starting to enjoy the madness of these mentalists.

My second thought is that it is the most memorably atmospheric book I have ever read. Bronte creates a perfect world - it is just dripping with mid nineteenth century Yorkshireness.

Although I can see the appeal of Heathcliff to women who like a bad boy, I always found Catherine to be a strangely limp character.

It's the only book by the Bronte sisters that ever appealed to me.

I agree with you about Catherine. But I'm more of a Charlotte Bronte fan, myself. I enjoyed Wuthering Heights, though-- it was a good read.

[M]

Why have I started to like Wuthering Heights? I hated it previously but now I am starting to enjoy the madness of these mentalists.

My second thought is that it is the most memorably atmospheric book I have ever read. Bronte creates a perfect world - it is just dripping with mid nineteenth century Yorkshireness.

Although I can see the appeal of Heathcliff to women who like a bad boy, I always found Catherine to be a strangely limp character.

It's the only book by the Bronte sisters that ever appealed to me.

I agree with you about Catherine. But I'm more of a Charlotte Bronte fan, myself. I enjoyed Wuthering Heights, though-- it was a good read.

Charlotte Bronte died of morning sickness, you know.

[hadespussercats]

I think when I was young, the thought of people fucking one another up so royally frightened me somewhat. Now I find it rivetting. It's very dark but not as depressing as, say Jude the Obscure.

At least there is a wee bit of fantasy in WH to cut through the bleakness.

The unrelenting depression in Jude and Sons and Lovers just has me reaching for a rope.

Yeah, I don't care much for Hardy, myself-- nothing against his writing skill, just not to my taste. I think he seemed a little too teenager-angst-y to me, and considering I haven't read him other than when I was a teen myself, that sentiment seems damning. Part of the reason I haven't taken a second look since.

[hadespussercats]

Why have I started to like Wuthering Heights? I hated it previously but now I am starting to enjoy the madness of these mentalists.

My second thought is that it is the most memorably atmospheric book I have ever read. Bronte creates a perfect world - it is just dripping with mid nineteenth century Yorkshireness.

Although I can see the appeal of Heathcliff to women who like a bad boy, I always found Catherine to be a strangely limp character.

It's the only book by the Bronte sisters that ever appealed to me.

I agree with you about Catherine. But I'm more of a Charlotte Bronte fan, myself. I enjoyed Wuthering Heights, though-- it was a good read.

Charlotte Bronte died of morning sickness, you know.

Yeah, I'd heard it was complications from pregnancy. It's nice not to live in the 19th century.

[M]

Why have I started to like Wuthering Heights? I hated it previously but now I am starting to enjoy the madness of these mentalists.

My second thought is that it is the most memorably atmospheric book I have ever read. Bronte creates a perfect world - it is just dripping with mid nineteenth century Yorkshireness.

Although I can see the appeal of Heathcliff to women who like a bad boy, I always found Catherine to be a strangely limp character.

It's the only book by the Bronte sisters that ever appealed to me.

I agree with you about Catherine. But I'm more of a Charlotte Bronte fan, myself. I enjoyed Wuthering Heights, though-- it was a good read.

Charlotte Bronte died of morning sickness, you know.

Yeah, I'd heard it was complications from pregnancy. It's nice not to live in the 19th century.

Then again, if she or I had been pregnant in the 60s, we'd have been given thalidomide.