Wuthering Heights

I listened to an audiobook version.

For some reason I imagined that this book would be more interesting, that it would contain some great tragedy, blazing fits of the extremes of toxic love, that it would be an intense and heavy experience.

A while back I tried to read it and the first chapters would contain a lot of description, as I listened to it now it contained a lot more narrative and wasn't like the start at all. I thought it would be more difficult, but I ended up thinking that the whole drama and conflict was too simple. Some accents were a pain, but that's as far as the difficulty went for me.

For the length of the book I wanted so much more. I wanted fuller, more mature characters, not children engaging in conflicts. The amount of disturbing stuff that happened is minimal and I thought that stuff would be at least a little paranormal with the dream at the start, with so many mentions of the devil, but it wasn't. A lot of conflict in this book is due to the fact that its characters are not smart.

I expected the narrative to be rich and deep with psychological insight, but this was no Flaubert, I found no such a thing, it was very simple which has happened. It was so boring and plain and I feel bad for having this opinion because I had such expectations. There were so many events yet no proper reflection on them, no proper comment on them from the author and the main narrator would sometimes give her christian insights which I could not care for.