/lit/ - Literature

Twilight for the victorian age.

If you believe in the supernatural and stuff.

It'd be good if it were about 200 pages shorter. There's a lot of really unnecessary crap shoved into the middle. I mean, if you're into romantic period soap operas then this is totally your bag. If not, brace yourself. It's long, and downright painful at times.

>greatest romance novels
>Wuthering Heights
>mfw

more like horrible people getting into some shit

fuck that shit

Emily Bronte pales in comparison to her sisters. The only book by Charlotte I'd recommend is Villette, however. Anne is the only Bronte sister really worth remembering.

Bronte is overrated.

Her writing style is unneccesarily complicated and convulated.

>>1497042
the fuck u talkin bout
aint nuttin complikated bout her writin'

is good book. is bella and edward faverit book

>>1497077
Is that why this book is so popular now?
Goddamn it, twilight. It's probably because this was the only classic that fat bitch of an author has read.

>>1497103

is bella and edward faverit book

>>1497042

I agree with this anon. I needed an angle grinder to get through that prose.

>>1497115

Beat me to it.

Got about 100 pages in and stopped. I don't know if it's worth going back to.

>>1497119
Jesus.
I don't like Emily Bronte, but nobody deserves this.

>>1497119
>>1497119
Oh god please no. Say what you will about Bronte... but.... oh fuck.

>>1497138
Pay attention to the framing devices. Stop and think about exactly who is telling the story. The nested flashback structure is actually quite complex.

dear OP,

if youre going to read this book just to join in the twilight fan girl phase then please kill yourself.

thank you

didnt read the book, but the movie was crap

>>1497119

Oh gods I just... urgh...

Where'd all this vomit come from? And the blood?

The only perfect English-language novel.

Dude is mad so he smashes his face into a tree. Pretty cool guy.

>>1497190

But framing isn't complex if you're not a woman.

i hate this book. hate hate hate. it's not a love story. it's a hate story, the characters are vengeful and mean spirited.. As a matter of fact it's the only book i've read that i despise, oh and couldn't they name the characters something original. everyone in that god forsaken book is named heathcliff or catharine.

It's something of a benchmark in the exposition of women's sexuality. I think it's fair to say that fiction and the popular arts were never quite the same after Heathcliff; though that was more a case of Bronte taking already exisitng tropes a little further than any great breakthrough of her own.

As a novel? Not for me.

got about 2/3 and stopped

not sure why, maybe it was because everyone died

I was forced to read for school when I was 12 years old. Why would you force a 12 yr old boy to read wuthering heights?

All I remember is not being able to understand what the servant, which is odd because I come from yorkshire

It was boring. I got more interested in the "narrator" than in the characters of the story themselves.
They just kept dying for the stupidest reasons.

The fact that it was written by a woman to impress other women didn't help either. By that time we had A Hero of Our Time or The Count of Monte Cristo, and a couple of decades later, Dostoyevsky was writing Notes from the Underground.

It just pales in comparison.

>>1497115
Poor Anne. Nobody will ever read her books.

Am I correct in thinking that Emily and Charlotte Bronte had a thing for writing about women falling for horrible brutes?

>>1497695
Just imagine what it's like for a non-native speaker. I bought Wuthering Heights, oblivious of how old the English in it is, and I stopped my first reading attempt at 20 pages or so because I had to look up more than a word per page. I won't even try to read away from a computer and an Internet dictionary next time.

>>1497543

I'm sorry, wat? Heathcliff is called Heathcliff. Catherine is named after her mother Cathy.

The rest of the characters are not called either Heathcliff or Cathy. Even Heathcliff's son is continually referred to as 'Linton'.

ITT: People who didn't get Wuthering Heights, or think it's cool to diss the Brontes. Fantastic book. Suck it up.

>>1497705
I don't know if they're meant to be horrible brutes, more like a tragic hero with the fatal flaw of being a snarky fuck.

Although the book is great, it is still flawed as hell. Bronte puts so much emphasis on insignificant stuff, events that should actually be shocking just seem to fade into the background.
Also, what's the deal with Hindley's knife pistol?

>>1496903
>>1497479
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogRi7qPmbk

If she was such a good authress why did she misspell withering?