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    But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?

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    Image of goodcheapfun goodcheapfun
    09/05/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    I chucked Wuthering Heights (awful book) but I love Jane Eyre. I love Masterpiece theater renditions of English stuff.
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    09/05/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    A) I absolutely love that version of Wuthering Heights. BIG William Wyler fan and Olivier is totally hot in it and the death scene is some of the best over-acting melodramatic awesomeness the 9 year old drama queen I was could have been exposed to.

    B) Both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are two of my most cherished novels for so many different reasons. Eyre brings out my practical rationalist side but Heights... oh Wuthering Heights brings out my super melodramatic side. And Twihards can suck it- NOWHERE in that book does the dude DIG UP THE CORPSE OF HIS DEAD LOVER AND EMBRACE IT.

    C) TOTALLY WANT TO DO THIS TOUR!
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    Image of weetziebat weetziebat
    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    As an English major, i know i'm supposed to love this book, but i just can't. (hangs head in shame)
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    Image of willwriteforfood willwriteforfood
    09/04/09

    @weetziebat: You're not the only one. I read them both in high school and really liked Jane Eyre. I liked how sassy she could be to Mr. Rochester.

    But I just did not connect with Wuthering Heights. Maybe because I thought Heathcliff was just an asshole and Cathy annoyed the crap out of me.

    I have never admitted that out loud.
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    Image of lijakaca lijakaca
    09/04/09

    @willwriteforfood:
    For anyone who agrees that Heathcliff is a jerk...
    [www.harkavagrant.com]
    (I can never remember how to add links, so here's the plain text version)
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    09/04/09

    @willwriteforfood: I liked Jane Eyre too! I read wide sargasso sea after i read it, and i might have liked that even better.
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    09/04/09

    @weetziebat: I read Wide Sargasso Sea too - it was great. It kind of woke me up to the portrayal of "wild" women in literature and gave me a whole new window on reading lit with a more feminist view.
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    Image of Sunshineyness Sunshineyness
    09/05/09

    @lijakaca: I have to question what book someone has read if they don't get that Heathcliff is supposed to be an asshole. Bronte makes it clear that he's an asshole. But then, all the characters are asses in their own way. The only difference is that Heath's at least honest about it...
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    Wuthring Heights references would not be complete without this.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    09/04/09

    @Ailatan: You stole my bit! You whore! It's okay though, because I'm at work and didn't want to go to YouTube to dig it up.
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    09/04/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Let's both take credit for it, I'm going one up on you though cause I'm dancing to it! ;)
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    Image of My_Latest_Incarnation My_Latest_Incarnation
    09/04/09

    @Ailatan: Even better:

    Kate. Bush. Wuthering. Heights. Ring. Tone.

    [www.lyricsfreak.com]
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    09/06/09

    @My_Latest_Incarnation:

    I'll have to settle for my I AM THIN & GORGEOUS Absolutely Fabulous ring tune.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    I am way more excited than I should be about the couch.
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    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    I've been! Stayed in Haworth (the Apothecary Guest House, it was wonderful) across the street from the church where the Brontes' father was the preacher, saw their house which is now a museum, hiked across the moors to Top Witherns.... it was all so beautiful that I want to go back! Not to mention, the pubs. Mmmm a pint and some Yorkshire pudding!
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    09/04/09

    @funnyface: Oh, I'm jealous! I really want to do that someday. I think I'd just about die from excitement. I'm really nerdy about the Brontes.

    Though I'd have to hold the Yorkshire pudding.
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    09/04/09

    @girlleastlikelyto: At least the one I had was like a beef pot pie, basically, and was great after a chilly, rainy, day of hiking.
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    Image of memphreblues memphreblues
    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    I just bought Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. I'm so excited to read them after I finish my current book! I was in London with my dad and saw the picture of the Bronte sisters at the portrait gallery, and was like, "I've put it off long enough. I need to read you women!"
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    09/04/09

    @memphreblues: I really liked both of them. I liked Jane Eyre so much after reading it (in a high school English class!!) that I read Wuthering Heights in college. They have their flaws, but they're a good read.
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    09/04/09

    @memphreblues: May I also recommend The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte?
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    09/04/09

    @la.donna.pietra: Ann Bronte is underrated, and it makes me sad. Also, this is the best webcomic ever.
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    09/04/09


    @lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: Tarnation!
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    Image of MissFiFi MissFiFi
    09/04/09

    @la.donna.pietra: ooooo and Agnes Grey!
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    09/04/09

    @MissFiFi: My favourite by Charlotte Brontë is Villette I want a BBC adaptation!
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    Image of la.donna.pietra la.donna.pietra
    09/04/09

    @lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: Oh, that is the awesomest thing in the history of ever!
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    09/06/09

    @Ailatan: YES! YES!
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    "The turkeys lay on the hillside, wuthering loudly."
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    Image of Rose.Selavy.Needs.A.Drink Rose.Selavy.Needs.A.Drink
    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    This sounds great. During our last Brit visit my partner and I tripped along on our version of a Bronte tour in the Peaks District and the Yorkshire moors. Amazing landscape, alternately bleak and bright, and best visited without anyone else around so all you hear is the wind whispering across the stone and grass.
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    09/04/09

    @Rose.Selavy.Needs.A.Drink: I saw their house and village as a teen (before, sadly, I'd read any of their stuff. Wuthering Heights is fantastic, though I do raise a brow at those who swoon over Heathcliff).
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    09/06/09

    @Rose.Selavy.Needs.A.Drink:

    Okay to me this sounds perfect. Convincing my husband of this is a different matter all together.
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    I would so do this. If I had money. Which I don't. Back to Wuthering Minneapolis for me.
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    Image of Kivrin Kivrin
    09/04/09

    @lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: Me too. I really should've been born in the UK. :(
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    09/04/09

    @lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: My response to pretty much everything lately has become, "So I need to make more money..."

    Minneapolis gets windy, and, um, dark, right? I think if I squint really hard, I can attribute a gothic aspect to Wuthering San Diego.
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    09/04/09

    @lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: There are lots of brooding stoic types in Minnesota, or so I hear.
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    09/06/09

    @Kivrin: I've always thought the same thing! At least being a New Englander I have the Lite Version.
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    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    Doesn't it mean "windy?"
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    Image of sierra_hotel sierra_hotel
    09/04/09

    In reply to But Do They Explain What "Wuthering" Means?
    I wuther as I wander...
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    09/04/09

    @sierra_hotel: I'll wander upwind of you then.
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    08/29/09

    In reply to Books Selling Books: Today's Bestsellers Hawk Yesterday's Classics
    I know it's late, but....why would you buy Wuthering Heights when it's on Project Gutenberg for free?

    [www.gutenberg.org]
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    Image of SylvanSylph SylvanSylph
    08/28/09

    In reply to Books Selling Books: Today's Bestsellers Hawk Yesterday's Classics
    Can we please not throw Wuthering Heights in with Twilight? Please? After all, Heathcliff and Cathy NEVER had a relationship at all, so they certainly couldn't have had an abusive ugly one. If they had, maybe Heathcliff would have been around to eat Cathy's baby out and she would have survived to live out a boring marriage for the last half of the book. But it's much better than that. Plus, it's funny. Jane Eyre, on the other hand, not so much.
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    Image of MissNormaDesmond MissNormaDesmond
    08/28/09

    @SylvanSylph: Huh, that's an interesting idea, that H&C never had a relationship. I don't think H thought so, and I have to wonder about all that running around on the moors together as adolescents.
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    08/28/09

    In reply to Books Selling Books: Today's Bestsellers Hawk Yesterday's Classics
    Posted on Waterstone bookseller's site:

    "is this book in old english or modern english??"

    "just a question to anyone who has read this book is it in old english or mordern understandable english? if so i want it but it sounds like it's just the original version with a different cover."

    Oooo, if it’s not written in sparkle English I won’t read it. Unfuckingbelievable.
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    08/28/09

    @Rose.Selavy.Needs.A.Drink: SPARKLE ENGLISH FTW
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