Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Book Review)
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Hello everyone, time for a new book review. Wow, this book was deep. So deep and utterly bleak.
None of the characters I liked because they were utterly deplorable, miserable, toxic. I couldn't wrap my head around this kind of obsession - and then call it love between Heathcliff and Cathy. To me, it was something else because with my own value set, love does not include obsession - to me, they are two completely different emotions that don't go together. When they do, there's always some calamity that occurs.
Well anyway, I understand why this is a classic. When a book gets you so worked up - whether you love or hate it - then it's a book that will be around for a long time.
What are your thoughts about this book?
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Thank you for your insightful discussion. Some of the other participants of "Victober" (a youtube event where bookish youtubers join together to talk about Victorian literature during October) and I have been joking about Team Jane Eyre vs. Team Wuthering Heights. It seems clear that almost everyone STRONGLY prefers one over the other. I am definitely Team Jane Eyre--but I now appreciate some of the things that Emily Bronte was doing in her novel. Right now I'm reading Ann Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall, which is much closer to Jane Eyre. (Loving it so far.)
Thank you so much for sharing these as I wasn’t aware of Viktober, I don’t know anyone who has read Ann Brontë’s book (I take it you recommend it?). Yes I wasn’t aware of the two sides until my husband mentioned this. I’m glad I read both. I definitely am for Jane Eyre but I can appreciate Wuthering Heights now. Thanks for watching and sharing your thoughts.
I applaud you for being mature and having the integrity to understand you must “go with the flow” of ideas expressed in literature, and also publicly admitting this. I would like to think you are expressing grace. Far too many exhort a deeply judgmental and stodgy inflexibility with literature of an earlier age. I hope others who watch your channel will be open to this idea of grace. Well done. Keep up the good work and I enjoy your channel.
Thank you for this feedback and sharing your thoughts here. I appreciate that you took the time to watch and share this. I believe it’s really important to view the book as it was written for that time. It’s giving us a glimpse into that time and although I have my “current day thinking” I cannot look or judge it by that standard. It’s a struggle though because you went to express regardless. In all honesty, I’m finding this exact thing you mention harder with time. Maybe because society is evolving so much that maybe the differences are becoming starker. Guess the best thing I can do is to remain open to all ideas, question, understand.
I had a feeling when you were so enthusiastic about Jane Eyre that you would not like Wuthering Heights. I discovered Wuthering Heights as a 21-year-old college student, just getting ready to head off into the world on my own for the first time. To me, it was about finding your passion in life. I felt that Cathy betrayed herself when she considered what the world and society expected of her rather than go with her heart and Heathcliff. So to me, it meant not being true to my soul would lead to trouble. There was a movie on the US Public Broadcasting System about the sisters. They had a bleak existence and their brother Bronson was a alcoholic and drug addict who broke his family's heart. I very much enjoyed your review!
Thank you so much for watching and sharing your thoughts. You know, I had LONG conversations about this book with my husband (he loved it) and a couple of other friends who didn't - we talked about this obsession and whether it was really love or just some toxic emotional abuse. I liked this book for the conversations it gave me. TBH, I do prefer Jane Eyre. WH was far too bleak and depressing but I'm so glad I read it. I saw a movie of it (a recent adaptation of it) which was also bleak, heavy, and just...omg, sad. No wonder Emily Bronte wrote this story like this if they had an existence like this. Still, I wouldn't say it's one of my favourite books of all time - but I'd say it would be unforgettable.
It seems like it was a good-bad-book. I haven't read it yet, but I will. Reminds me of a feeling when you come out of a movie theater having seen a terrible film that you however, could never forget. It means that the movie touched you and did an excellent job.... therefore it really was a good movie, wasn't it😂😂
@@DefaultName-nt7tk The Lighthouse (movie with Willem Defoe and Robert Pattinson) affected me that way. I hated watching it but couldn't get it out of my mind.
@DefaultName-nt7tk Exactly this! 🤣
@booktalkingwithlibrarylin1924 I loved the Lighthouse (the book). I haven’t seen the film. Once again, when chatting with friends, a couple of them DESPISE it for some reason. I didn’t. I thought it was brilliant. Then we would argue back and forth. That’s why I like that books create these discussions. We see differences and we can talk and share perspectives. The world would be boring if we all liked the same books. 🤣
Wow, that’s a lot of good lessons you learnt, even if you didn’t enjoy the darkness. Thanks for sharing. I have not read it.
Thank you for watching Joyce. I appreciate that. I think if a book inspires so much conversation as this one did for me, no wonder it’s a classic. 🤣
Just found your channel it’s fabulous! Thanks!
Thank you! 😊
Edgar Linton is definitely not cruel, neither is Hareton so they're my favorite characters
@@betz5359 Hareton hangs puppies…
I was read the book early above one year ago and I love this book very much as other books and I'm also a poet i wrote so many poems related to human life since above 1 year ago can you review my poems ❤
Wonderful! Thank you for your comment. Poetry is something that is difficult to write so writing it must mean you have so much to share and express. All the best with that and thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts. 🙏
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Can you please do a review of 'Breasts and Eggs' by Meiko Kawakami? I feel like it's right up your alley of reflective and feminine genre.
Thank you for this recommendation. I have checked it out to see if it’s available from our library. It is! I’ve reserved it now and will read it. Thank you.
@YVISKEY I borrowed Breasts and Eggs from the library last night and started reading it. It sucked me right in. Fantastic story and a page turner. How talented is Kawakami!!!
Are you going to move on to The Tenant of Wildfell Hall to get the Bronte hat-trick?
I need to. Don’t I? I need to find the book and buy it for my own shelves. I’d like to have all her books for my own (ie not borrowed from libraries).
The next book im reading is Antifragile from Nassim Taleb Nicholas. I had just finished Pride & Prejudice and thought “Antifragile will be next!” (With no rhyme or reason). It takes a bit of cognitive stretching to go from period pieces to Taleb. Let’s see how it goes. 🤣
I listened to it. The roles and duties of women are touched in this book as well.
If I find it in my travels through second hand book stores or a library, I’ll get it. It’s a book I’d like to read. Thanks for the recommendation! 😊