/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2380746]

Are the Bronte Sisters worth reading? I was going to read Jane Eyre and my friend said after that read some more of Charlotte's works and then her sisters as well. Or should I read a more modern females writing like Virginia Woolf?

I'm liking the old style of David Copperfield(I usually don't) so i figured i'd either read some Charlotte Bronte or Jane Austen.

[Anonymous No.2380759]

Wuthering Heights and Middlemarch (George Eliot) are the best novels from female Victorian novelists

[Anonymous No.2380774]

Wuthering Heights is one of the most turgid, awful pieces of writing in English literature.

It is seriously fucking horrible. I wouldn't read it again for anything less than a thousand quid.

[Anonymous No.2380783]

>>2380774

>Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was generally considered the best of the Brontë sisters' works during most of the nineteenth century, many subsequent critics of Wuthering Heights argued that it was a superior achievement.[3] Wuthering Heights has also given rise to many adaptations and inspired works, including films, radio, television dramatisations, a musical by Bernard J. Taylor, a ballet, three operas (respectively by Bernard Herrmann, Carlisle Floyd, and Frédéric Chaslin), a role-playing game, and a song by Kate Bush.

[Anonymous No.2380791]

>>2380774

It's objectively the 6th best novel of all time.

[Anonymous No.2380793]

>>2380783

So fucking what?

[Anonymous No.2380796]

>>2380793

No one adapts crap literature decade after decade.

[Anonymous No.2380799]

>>2380796

Yeah they do. You just proved it.

[Anonymous No.2380811]

>>2380799

Took the words right out of my mouth/keyboard.

Starlight Express has been running in every city in the world since the seventies, does that mean that faggots in spandex rollerskating and pretending to be fucking trains is something special?

Only bitches dig Wuthering Heights, and only then because they're too scared of their peers to read Twilight.

Pic related. It's you, only thinner and less ugly.

[Anonymous No.2380813]

>>2380799

fucking told

[Anonymous No.2380820]

>>2380799
>>2380811
>>2380813

I feel sorry for you, samefag, that you cannot enjoy what is arguably the most perfect novel in the English language.

[Anonymous No.2380835]

>>2380820

>Thinks people disagreeing with him are samefagging.

There are at least two of us.

Don't care anymore anyway, because this is now a spiderman thread.

[Anonymous No.2380839]

>>2380820

learn 2 detect samefags.

[Anonymous No.2380859]

>>2380835
>>>/b/

[Anonymous No.2380860]

>>2380820
>>2380746

[Anonymous No.2380862]

>>2380859


Don't like /b/, thanks anyway.

[Anonymous No.2380884]

Jane Eyre sucked completely. I hate anything Victorian though.

[Anonymous No.2380892]

>>2380884

[Anonymous No.2380896]

>>2380884
I thought I didn't like Victorian style either but as I said, I'm liking David Copperfield quite a lot.

[Anonymous No.2380899]

>>2380896

Fuck David Copperfield. You can see the wires when he 'flies'. He did bang Claudia Schiffer though. Props for that.

[Anonymous No.2380907]

>>2380899
I'm up to where he goes to boarding school so maybe my opinion will be the same as yours, soon.

[Anonymous No.2380910]

>>2380896
not even just the fact that its Victorian, I honestly just don't find many female authors to be very captivating. Meh.

[Anonymous No.2380922]

Jane erye sucked

[Anonymous No.2380943]

>>2380783
>Wuthering Heights
>a role-playing game

[Anonymous No.2380955]

I loved Jane Eyre. I think Charlotte Bronte uses the semi-colon more effectively than anyone in the english language. The baroqueness of her prose reflects the complexity of the narrative structure that is at the same time a comedy and a tragedy. Some of the scenes, such as the horse drawn carriage and the ice, are very memorable. I really love Jane Eyre. More so than Jane Austen, this novel plumbs the social complexity of love.

[Anonymous No.2380966]

>>2380955
Nope.jpeg, it was boring and cliche.

[Anonymous No.2380981]

>>2380966