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Book #11 - Wuthering Heights
Huh. Apparently I had forgotten to write about reading Wuthering Heights for British Lit. Oops!
This wasn't the first time I read it, though I think I might not have finished it the last time because we hit a point where things stopped sounding familiar. I remember feeling that it didn't make very much sense to me (the Cathy/Catherine thing, because I remember thinking, "Is she dead or isn't she?!"), and it at least made a bit more sense now. Plus I watched it on Netflix to give myself some reference.
In class discussions my page numbers were off because I was using the edition I'd bought at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, after seeing Hurlevent at the Palais Garnier. We arrived just as it was starting so I didn't have a chance to read the program ahead of time, but as the dancers were moving through the story, I remember thinking that it felt familiar. Then at intermission I read and found out it was Wuthering Heights ("hurlevent" apparently ~= "wuthering"). Aha. Suddenly I knew what was going on, and quite enjoyed the rest of the show.
I'm still not completely sold on the book, though. It's too dark for me and moves _very_ slowly and I just want to take each and every character by the shoulders and give them a good hard shake, if not an outright slap. I feel badly for the Lintons because Cathy & Heathcliff really quite messed up their lives. Not content to be miserable themselves, they have to spread it as far and wide as they can. Really sort of the theme for the whole book...
Title: Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Pages: 417
11 / 24 books. 46% done!
This wasn't the first time I read it, though I think I might not have finished it the last time because we hit a point where things stopped sounding familiar. I remember feeling that it didn't make very much sense to me (the Cathy/Catherine thing, because I remember thinking, "Is she dead or isn't she?!"), and it at least made a bit more sense now. Plus I watched it on Netflix to give myself some reference.
In class discussions my page numbers were off because I was using the edition I'd bought at Shakespeare & Co. in Paris, after seeing Hurlevent at the Palais Garnier. We arrived just as it was starting so I didn't have a chance to read the program ahead of time, but as the dancers were moving through the story, I remember thinking that it felt familiar. Then at intermission I read and found out it was Wuthering Heights ("hurlevent" apparently ~= "wuthering"). Aha. Suddenly I knew what was going on, and quite enjoyed the rest of the show.
I'm still not completely sold on the book, though. It's too dark for me and moves _very_ slowly and I just want to take each and every character by the shoulders and give them a good hard shake, if not an outright slap. I feel badly for the Lintons because Cathy & Heathcliff really quite messed up their lives. Not content to be miserable themselves, they have to spread it as far and wide as they can. Really sort of the theme for the whole book...
Title: Wuthering Heights
Author: Emily Bronte
Pages: 417
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Wuthering Heights is definitely a novel that improves upon rereading. I most enjoyed it last year when I wrote an essay exploring nature of Heathcliff and Catherine's obsessive relationship.
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And I do agree with you about it improving upon rereading. I already think it's so much better than I did the first time I read it. But I think I really was too young to appreciate it the first time I tried (probably my early teens). So maybe if and when I get around to picking it up a third time I will start to truly _like_ it.