Adina (way behind)'s review of Wuthering Heights (original) (raw)

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Adina (way behind)'s Reviews > Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights
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There are some books that you either love of hate; there is not much middle ground. Like some types of food. Marmite or licorice come to mind. Wuthering Heights is one of those books. Since I started using GR I have read many conflicting reviews for this book and they made me increasingly curios to find out which side I would take. Unfortunately, I am more with the hate party.

I will not write a long review here as it was done thousands of times. I will only say that the book took all the joy of living from me and put me into a reading slump from which I hope to heal quickly. After I finished this last night I was considering what to read next and I realized I did not want to read anything for a while, I felt catatonic.

I believe I started the book on a wrong foot. I was expecting a love story, which in my opinion it is not. Instead, I think this is a very well done study of two sociopaths, pathologically obsessed with each other who manage to destroy the life of everyone they know for the fun of it. Their ability to hurt others and each other is so extraordinary that I might consider this book from the paranormal genre.

Yes, I appreciate that the novel is revolutionary for the period and so on but I did not enjoy it at all. Dear friends that love this novel, I am really sorry I did not like it more and I hope you will not take it personally.

Disclaimer: I read it in Romanian, the way I prefer to read all Victorian novels in order to avoid the archaic language. Maybe I was lost in translation.

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Reading Progress

June 16, 2014 – Shelved as:to-read

September 30, 2014 – Shelved as:classics

March 23, 2015 – Shelved as:british

October 26, 2016 –Started Reading

October 27, 2016 –50.0% "This is not a romance!"

October 28, 2016 –Finished Reading

January 29, 2018 – Shelved as:1001

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