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[rivka]

I think probably one should not read Wuthering Heights for the first time when one is nearly thirty and happily married and a psychologist.

Because, sweet Jesus, I'm supposed to think that's romantic?

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[ailsaek.livejournal.com]

I read Wuthering Heights in high school, and wondered the entier time when we were going to get to a sympathetic character. I hated Catherine, Heathcliff, the narrator, and probably Catherine's parents and brother as well (that much I don't remember). I seem to recall being very relieved when the next generation came onscreen.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Mr too. I've always thought there was something wrong with me that I didn't like this great work of classic literature, and suspected that the proper book had been swapped for a bunch of melodramatic howling.

Ugh.

OTOH, I'm presently reading Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South and it's brilliant.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Hee!

North and South is one I'll have to look for. I read Gaskell's Wives and Daughters and enjoyed it a great deal. Cranford I liked somewhat less.