What is /lit/'s opinion on Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"?
>>8051499
it's an absolute utter classic matey
>>8051499
It was written by a vagina human so it's poo poo.
>>8051544
Is shitposting allowed in this board?
>>8051499
I've only read Jane Eyre from the Brontë sisters. From what I gathered, all the Brontë sisters wrote Gothic Victorian novels.
>>8051615
Don't you want to read this book?
>>8051544
>vagina human
vagina bearers aren't fully humans
>>8051604
If it wasn't, there would be about five posts per day
>puffin classics
>>8051499
One of the best novels I've ever read desu
Not meming, I hated it. I know characters are more interesting when they aren't perfect and relatable in every way, but goddamn, every single character in this book was a miserable sack of shit whose only goal was to spitefully ruin everyone else's life. The characters have nothing to do but mope and plot how best to fuck everyone else over. Nothing else happens. The only book I ever remember starting but not finishing.
>>8051647
Nigger.
>>8051604
Is this your first day on this board?
>>8052068
Ask your mom, asshole
>>8051499
Toehider did it better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnG5iLR9g9k
>>8051499
Last time I read it was sophomore year of high school and I can't say I was a hug fan, but maybe if I read it now I'd like it.
Probably not though
It's fantastic. I really enjoyed the narrator-within-a-narrator deal and how the prose style changes depending on the narrator (within a narrator). However, I honestly found the most famous characters (Heathcliff and the first Catherine) to be among the most boring characters, while my favourite was probably Isabella. It is also interesting to see how Emily's extremely limited real-life experience influenced the novel and made it so dream-like (more accurately, nightmarish) to normal readers.
>>8052144
damn.
>>8052144
I actually enjoyed this man's singing more then the book.
>>8052862
Who doesn't?
i've never seen a penguin cover like that
>>8052001
>States what happens
>Nothing else happens.
This could be said about any book
>>8052001
If you read for plot you're going to have a hard time with a lot of great novels.
>>8052001
Basically why I liked it.
>>8051499
Great song
>>8051499
I absolutely hated it. The main characters were hateful, hopeless, and offensive. They deserved what they got.
>>8054214
Do you also hate Othello because of Iago?
They're built that way; grotesques of strained humanity my dude
>>8054138
nigger this is a plot-based novel
>>8054294
I'm not sure how you could read part of it, get bored because there's no plot, and then say it's plot based.
It's interesting for the atmosphere, character interactions, quality prose, and innovative structure. There are also subtle bits of metafiction, although they're not that obvious.
>>8052934
Puffin, friend.
I wanna fuck Kate Bush back when she was fresh and supple
>>8052001
I hated everyone but loved the book,
>>8054256
It meandered far too much, too. Catherine and Heathcliff should have just killed each other and let the others get on with their lives. My favorite author is Faulkner, and I love O'Connor. Both of them specialize in grotesque characters and Southern Gothic. I can dig offensive, baroque individuals.
WH was just unbearable because there was little even to commiserate with. I can deal with evil characters: Iago had Othello as his counterpart, and even Cassio was also noble. I have a hard time dealing with a whole novel full of shitty characters, though.
>>8056045
Not all of the characters are shitty, though. The mains narrators, Lockwood and Nelly, are fairly neutral, as they are basically just vessels, but they aren't mean or nasty. Isabella is misled and becomes a bit unstable but is overall admirable, and the second Catherine and Hareton are both redeemed by the end. There are numerous side characters who are also not evil, but those major characters stand out as not being bad.
