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.
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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)
@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.
@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...
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!
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!"
@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.
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.
@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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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.
@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.
"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."
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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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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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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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Kate. Bush. Wuthering. Heights. Ring. Tone.
[www.lyricsfreak.com]
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I'll have to settle for my I AM THIN & GORGEOUS Absolutely Fabulous ring tune.
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Though I'd have to hold the Yorkshire pudding.
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Okay to me this sounds perfect. Convincing my husband of this is a different matter all together.
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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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[www.gutenberg.org]
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"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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