wuthering heights is overrated (rant review)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- tell me a classic you hate.
0:00 intro
1:34 thesis and overview
2:54 flaw 1 melodrama
7:11 tone clash
7:29 narrator kinda OP
9:03 long but good example haha
13:04 quote is over haha
14:00 humorless
15:19 flaw 2 characters (heathcliff)
20:00 other silly character moments
22:52 hated the characters (the PERSONAL)
24:40 boring
25:16 the setting
25:35 classics suck!
28:33 a series of unfortunate events
29:50 my haters hate me
30:24 parts I liked
emily bronte
20,098
![Sean Rii, Karyon, Sharzkii - Taungule [My Love] (Official Music Video)](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eJoMuypbSzQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Alternate title - a wuthering review of withering heights
You’re killing me every time you say “Withering”😭😭😭
Except he's not making a joke, he's getting it wrong. lol
Its greatest fans are people who have read two or maybe three classics, one of the others always being To Kill A Mocking Bird. Jane Eyre is “too long.”
babes, where have you gone??? the fans miss you😭
i got stuck in traffic!!
Come back, Charles, your fans miss you 😞
“I still don’t care because it was annoying to read” is exactly how I feel about the entirety of this book. I get what she’s doing, I understand why people like it as a character study on trauma and relationships. but holy hell was it annoying.
You didn't think it was really well crafted and "stage managed"? Every single element of the plot is perfectly engineered within the larger structure. And the emotional whirlwind among despicable characters - no attempt made to placate the reader with solace. There really is no other novel like it.
yes totally. i think objectively it’s a great book, and i’ve read many good books with characters I greatly disliked. but there’s something about this book that leaves me feeling so annoyed that it hinders my ability to appreciate it.
Listen Josh... if you're stuck in a window again
im stuck in a doggie door this time
why did u fall off the earth queen
im here and im listening, but you need to lower your voice.
Damn, almost 2 months without posting a video? I'm having withdrawal symptoms. I hope you're doing ok Charles.
same keep coming back to check if his back, i miss the iconic eye rolls
@@zamzamnur1121you'll lose count trying to count all the different faces he makes 🤭
jesus baby dont be so dramatic, just smoke a cig
@@cs0p Sorry, I’m always dramatic af.
@@cs0pbest thing to happen to me today
Charles, are you alright, man? 40 long days without a new vid? I hope you're reading for yourself and not for RUclips but please share anything with us in the Community.
im back and im sexy and ill be seeing you sooner than you think....
@@cs0p OMG! Charles. ❤🩹 Praise the Lord!
Charles, I hope you're doing well. You haven't posted a video in over a month & I along with other viewers are concerned about your well being. Even if you don't want to post videos just share a community post.
your concern flatters me i am OTW
I hope you’re ok, Charles 🤍
i am ;)
As someone who knew before going in that there’s pretty much no likeable characters, it’s not a romance and pretty much everything is miserable I liked it for the simple fact that I like reading about awful people
i loved hating them all 😂 and that's why i love the book
we miss you! hope you are well 🤍
I feel like Wuthering Heights is the kind of book you need to read at a certain time in your life to truly revel in the angst and melodrama. For me that was during my teenage years. I was a huge fan of the Twilight books and The Flowers in the Attic series and my idea of great television at the time was Desperate Housewives😅. Wuthering Heights was the first classic novel that I found fun to read and it fed my angsty teenage soul. I finished the book in 3 days and processed to immediately re-read it because I was not ready to leave Heathcliff and Kathy's toxic relationship and family drama behind. I haven't read the novel since and I dont think I want to because thinking about the novel makes me feel nostalgic about my teenage self and also I'm not sure my adult self would have the patience for all that unnecessary angst and melodrama 😂
Agree… read WH in school because it was required / MANY YEARS AGO. (Although glad I did read it so I’m in sync with Charles’s review.) you must be my daughters age……… I read the Twilight Series with my daughter when she was in her late JR high to high school days. Really enjoyed them. 👍
3 days??? Omg 😭
And furthermore, CONGRATS ON 20,000 SUBSCRIBERS, GORGEOUS! 🥂
we miss you king ❤
i MISS YO U MORE
Send us a sign of life please.
I'm literally so worried. 😫
would a sweet little kiss on the cheek work?
@@cs0ppucker up
We're going to starve without you making us your special soup.
I really miss you. I REALLY hope you're okay. ❤️
i just made u some soup..u otw??
@@cs0p Damn right I'm on my way. Been thinking and worrying about you every single day, I'm not kidding. 😫 So happy you're (alive and) here! 💓
the “nelly i AM heathcliff” paragraph lives rent free in my mind
Charles, i hope you're okay!
thank you baby
i spent a total of 5 days trying to figure out who were all the characters and i gave up at page 10. Not even the family map that was in the book helped me figure out.
Come back please we miss you 😢
baby i just might
i’m loving this consistency charle!
Hope you’re doing well!! Really miss your videos!!! 🙏🏻💖
you wont have to be missing them for too much longer ;)
@@cs0p I was literally just thinking about you and wondering how you are. Very excited about the new content and about hearing your thoughts on books and life 💖
My whole bookclub (me and my local bookshop owner) hated this book when we read it... i literally don´t understand how people call it romantic
It is Romantic because it was written during the Romantic period. It didn't just spearhead and help codify the Romantic genre, it also features most all of the themes, tropes, and motifs of the post-enlightenment era. That a bookseller was completely oblivious to this fact is both concerning and depressing in equal measure.
@@bad-girlbex3791 I meant people who actually like the couple (which there are a lot) and who say that the couple is the reason they like the book
@@gusarapii So you DO know why it's referred to as being Romantic then???
@@bad-girlbex3791 i know when people refer to it as romantic regarding the artistic movement but people call it romantic as if the couple itself is cute/ something they want
Come back... It's been almost a month
dont tell me what to do!!
This channel is my new drug
Come back pookie 😢
fine 🙄
I read WH as an angsty teen and absolutely loved it. It was the most moving, intense book I’d ever read and to this day, I’ve never read anything like it. I respect your opinion and it seems to be a very polarising work anyway - you either love it or hate it; nothing in between, lol. I was going to re-read it this year, two decades after I read it for the first time, but your review has scared me, Charles 😂 I’m worried that reading it as an adult will be a different experience and may tarnish my love for it 😂 Although it really is my vibe; I love bleak, depressing books 😅 I think I’ll hold off on the re-read for now and continue to bask in my love for it 😌😅
I just love you and your video's so much. I hope you're okay and that you're just taking a little break from YT to read some amazing books just for your own pleasure. We miss you and will welcome you with open arms whenever you feel like uploading a new video. Take all the time u need. (Or am I being melodramatic for being worried after only a month? Idk I just hope you're okay.)
you either love it or hate it. i personally adore it so much i've read it 4 times, truly one in a million
We don't know your accounts on Instagram and Twitter "I'll always call it Twitter, btw" You're mysterious as hell, you must be scorpio
i have to keep my fans wanting more
oh, we’re in for a treat (you truly are the gift that keeps on giving!)
the slander is unforgivable- love you, loathe this opinion
Same 😭😭😭
I have read/listened to this book half a dozen times now trying to figure out why people like it. It's heartening that there are others out there who dislike Wuthering Heights, because I've truly never understood why it has been lauded above others for so long. Also appreciate how in-depth you went with this review.
This makes no sense……I mean why would you listen or read this a dozen times if you didn’t like it??? Now I’m just being curious as to why? NOT hateful.
@@puppy2haley Oh no, it was only six times. A few were back in my school days, as it was a text we had to examine for English Literature so when I left school, I chose to re-read in case the reason I hadn’t liked it was simply because it was something we’d had to pick apart and write essays on. I tried the audiobook with the Patricia Routledge narration for she is amazing, but alas, alack and all that she couldn’t save the book for me. Unfortunately, I was never going to be the reader Wuthering Heights required.
charles, is it me or everytime someone recommends you a book or the book community hypes up a book, you end up hating it 😟 (i trust your hatred)
I haven't read it, but i see many people disagreeing and is always so interesting to see how differently the same books affect individually. I found a comments section recently hating on a book i really loved recently and i thought "how could anyone hate it? How did you read it and didn't understand it?" But it really is a amazing phenomenon to see how a book can have a thousand different ways to be interpreted
Ooooh. This is so interesting. While I love Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, I’ve hesitated to read this one by one of the other Bronte’s. Maybe this is because Jane Eyre manages to accomplish SO many moods without feeling like it’s trying very hard. And, omg does Tolstoy do humor well. Somehow he finds ways to insert humor into War & Peace! I love a book discussion video with passages used as examples and with HUMOR. You do this so well. 😊.
idc how many times you referred to the novel as "withering heights" ...you're a modern day icon, baby. 💗
🤭🫶
We need a series you reviewing classics please
Obsessed with the way you ended the video lol. Love the thumbnail!
real for this. jane eyre it's SOOOO much better
They are just completely different.
i can’t believe this, sending h*te
Hope you are doing okay Charles!!
im good and i hope youre doing even better ;)
@@cs0p I'm sooo happy you're back!!!! :)
I respect your wrong opinion
Thanks for saving my Saturday Devil Daddy. ❤
i absolutely despise this book. this was my Goodreads review for it
"it took this book 22 chapters to become mildly interesting . tbh only reason i read it was for my a level. literature equivalent of a plain chicken breast. slightly burnt, little bit of charcoal on the bottom but its like soggy inside. and has that weird chicken residue
thats hhow much i hated reaidng this book"
Oh no. We disagree on this :( Before last year ended I read one book of each Bronte sister. (Jane Eyre, WH, and Tenant). WH is just superior. Sad it didn’t work for you.
Where are you, my friend? We miss you
Ive been here waiting for you baby
Missing you pookie 😘
good.
Whenever someone raves about a book I find that it's never as amazing as they've built it up to be. It's partially why I enjoy participating in book clubs. Sometimes other people have a totally different perspective and I realize that they're possibly mentally ill and not to ever listen to their book recommendations again.
not possibly mentally ill 🤣
charles come back home babe the kids miss you 😔
i thought i told you im not gonna raise those rats with you
Charles - I just wanted to say I really needed the laughs this time, and ALSO the affirmation that I think Wuthering Heights is boring. Thank you💛
🥺im late but this made me very happy
@@cs0p You're just on time. It's a privilege to hear from you!!! You bring joy to RUclips, but do it on YOUR time.
The way I paid 27$ at B&N for this book (the hardcover is so pretty) , read 15 pages and never picked it up again lol. Somehow you hating it makes me want to go read it..
Well I read this book over a decade ago so now I’ll have to reread this book to see if I agree with your opinion. 📕 ❤
Wow, Milo Yiannopolous has a book vlog
Yaaaaaaas! YAS! YAAAAAAS! This one I also felt is overhyped. And it is clunky on its structure at times and it can be confusing on the first read.
I read this years ago, so I mostly remember not liking it, but you jogged my memory in that I remember at the time thinking the "maid is telling the story" device was SO clunky and ridiculous and at times I was totally taken out of the story because I kept thinking, there is no way she can just recite all these conversations word for word that took place thirty years ago, COME ON.
Idk if you remember I told you, I was going to buy less books but I bought one.... Because I've seen you talk about it, buuuut I love it so much so far 👌
you owning multiple copies is so real because i also have two copies because they are ALWAYS at thrift stores and they look absolutely gorgeous. no i haven't read them yet
back for a rewatch!!!!
What a coincidence, I am now reading wuthering heights and have been watching all the reviews of it. Then you've posted 😊 agreed with almost every point.
Very many of the works acclaimed as great romances are…not. Romeo & Juliet: disaster all around. Ditto Anna Karenina.
I think this book is important, but it is not for everyone. It’s important because of its masterful but tricky play with timelines, narrators, and repeated names and repeated patterns. And it is important because it is so very unlike books written by women up to that moment, and long after (there were many many novels written by women-just not like hers).
INDEED!!!
Oh God the setting.... The moooors, the ✨moors✨ enough about the GODDAMN moors already jesus
This makes me want to read it again. Thanks for the book rec.
np baby
No this is my favourite book! I love the melodrama! And the setting is my favourite part, the Yorkshire moors are such a magical place! And the Kate Bush song is amazing!
Hiiiiiiiiii. Hope you are doing well. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
baby i am and i will see you soon.
og rants and og background are back
omg your first controversy 💪😍
* goes to Goodreads, removes Wuthering heights from tbr * ( thank you for saving me a headache )
Hi, just want to say I love your videos. You're so cute and interesting! Would love to hear your thoughts on everything, not just books, but thanks for all you do. You are awesome
you might just get exactly what youre asking for ;)
I’m so happy I found your channel
im happy you found it more
I had bought the cute Woodsworth Clothbound edition. Tried reading it a little bit... hated it. I was so bored! How do so many people hype up this book? Ok maybe I'm not fully qualified to judge since I DNFd it - but still... I don't get it.
this phone won't let me edit my comments since the YT update so adding here:
Oh yeah, the book was annoying too. Glad I unhauled it. Going in my pango shop once I get it set up.
Ive never read Wuthering Heights but i clicked so fast when i saw this title knowing that you were going to Have Opinions about it XD
I only recently read Jane Eyre and thats a book thats similar to WH in that its been sort of lauded as his great 'romantic' classic. I have extremely mixed feelings about it. I can understand WHY its so big and loved and why people eat it up (i also ate it up)- but there are themes and aspects that... Leave a bad taste in my mouth. There are times Janes character slays and times im not not so sure.
Im curious about what youd think about it and if youd point out the same things. BUT I wont recommend it directly to you because like you said itd be a waste of time to read something you wont like.
Love your videos!!! Feels like a genuine book club XD
come back… are you okay?!
im as sexy as ever ;)
Uh, 9:03. Can I just put that on repeat as I fall asleep? Just like Matthew McConaughey reading a bedtime story.
this is so funny to me cuz wuthering heights is my fav book ever
Why though?
charles come home we miss u hope all is well
im OTW OTW OTW hope youre doing good too ;)
@@cs0p i hear the angels singing 😭😭
omg charles it's my first book of the year.. literally purchased it yesterday
The way I immediately removed it from my library holds list 😅 by the way, Briefing for a Descent was absolute nonsense and a complete disappointment, I wouldn’t waste your time on it if you ever stumble across a copy. On the fence about whether I want to check out more of Lessing’s work.
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN
hiding from you.
Josh it's WUTH not WITHERING 🥰
I read this in my AP Lit class and I actually really like it lmao. Obviously, to each their but I don’t think others shouldn’t try it out just because of someone else’s opinion
to each their own (i personally did not immediately fall head over heels after reading 🥸 but the more i took my time in deconstructing it, the more i appreciate its story cuz there’s so much to dissect!!1!1) however you saying heathcliff was bullied “a little” (17:18) greatly undermines the abuse he went through since he literally became hindley’s slave 😟 i think wh is the type of book that requires its reader to read over and over bc you can easily miss its many many details
I agree so much. I read Wuthering Heights a few years ago when I was 18 because it was so famous. But I found the timelines disorientating and the dialogue melodramatic. And most of all; I was bored.
I liked Jane Eyre a lot more.
You are so real for this.
Is all down hill after you listen to the Kate Bush song.
bruh. I haven't even started yet but what the heck. I hated the book at the beginning but ended up LOVING it by the end.
i have about 6 copies of this book and have only read it once during a grieving depression. it is my favorite book
you ate
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford is supposed to be a great 20th century classic, but I can’t see this at all. It grates on me like no other classic I’ve ever read, or tried to read. The characters might as well be lemmings. Lemmings who talk too much and take far too long to get to the cliff.
btw you should read BIOGRAPHY OF X by Catherine Lacey (or any of her books if you havent already)! it's amazing and i think you'd like it
i will check it out!
Great book! He’d love it for sure
NO NO NO I LOVE WUTHERING HEIGHTS WHYYYYY (its okay i still love you)
miss you
no i miss you
I didn’t even make it 10 pages in and was already bored/not feeling it. Maybe I’ll try to read it again but you aren’t giving me warm fuzzies about it lol
Finally someone else agrees with me that wuthering heights is bad. I never understood why ppl liked it at all. I mainly hated heathcliff the most too because he is abusive but whats crazy to me is that readers who love this work justifies or tries to justify his actions because he was bullied as a kid, and also I hate animal abusers as well which is what he does. He even abuses his own child and lets him die because the child’s name is the name of someone he hates too. Right now I’m reading the Tenant of Wildfell hall by Ann Bronte and ironically I think it’s better. I even found myself chuckling at Ann’s wit with the characters vs Emily’s.
i kinda wonder what he thinks of jane eyre
Come back - there was so much content then nothing, i should have appreciated December/January more
on the way...;)
Happens to be one of my favorite books! Will always love it.
maybe ill change my mind in 10 years
i love wuthering heights because i couldn't stand any of the characters Emily did everything so well for me to hate them. And maybe she hated them too 😂😂
Here for this 🔥
You're so coool 😭😭😭
good to see you here 🥳