Wuthering Heights

Overall this book is amazing. It is written with a looming sense of suspense that makes it in many ways a thriller. the characters are written in a fully realized way that makes you wonder at there bruteness and sever honesty.They are overindulgent and at times insane, but their actions keep you on their side. The passion of Catherine and Heathcliff makes their relationship impossible to fulfill in life. But the satisfaction of the story comes from their future generations. The story is all in the characters. It truly captures the culture of the time.

I felt extremely satisfied with the story, and the writing is immaculate, therefore I give this book 5 stars.

By far the hardest book I have ever read. Sadly, not worth the effort. It is an incomprehensible and sad story, presumably of love.
May never return to any of the work by the Bronte sisters as punishment for a miserable read.

I could give this three different ratings. Need to think about it some more...

The other Brontë sisters' books are much better than this one. I feel bad for not liking it (it's my grandmother's favorite) but I could not find a likable character in the whole book. I understand and completely agree that characters don't have to be likable, and there are numerous books that I do enjoy with very few likable characters, but I just couldn't understand the reasoning behind any of the actions of any of the characters.

I didn't expect to like this as much as I did. From everything I heard, I expected it to be a really sappy romance with really sappy characters and and a really sappy happy ending. It turned out that the characters who experience the central romance were actually very strong-willed and often very cruel. There are very romantic speeches, but the book is anything but smushy love. I found the story to be very well-written and interesting and it is certainly one of my favorite books.

I reread this novel for the first time since high school and LOVED it. During high school, I was very anti-Cathy. I blamed her for turning Heathcliff into a monster. During this read, I understand her better. Heathcliff was an angry guy who made bad choices. She didn't see him turning away from that, so she chose something more peaceful, Edgar. Heathcliff continued to make bad choices to cover up his feelings of sorrow. Because of that he just continued down a bad road and tried to take others with him. Emily Bronte is amazing! I can honestly say that this novel opened the doorway to my passion for Romantic and Victorian English novels. The Bronte sisters, Austen, Mary Shelley are among my favorites!

Why Heathcliff has become one of our ‘great romantic characters' is beyond me. He is selfish, vindictive, abusive, moody and cruel. Now you can blame these character traits on his tortured and enduring love for Cathy, but really he is just a miserable sod.

As for Cathy, I have seldom encountered a more spoilt and mean character. The way she teases Isabella about her feelings for Heathcliff reminded me of school-girl bullying.

However, at least these two characters had a bit of fire and passion within them. The most detestable character in Wuthering Heights has to be Linton - Heathcliff's spineless, insipid excuse for a son.

I didn't really like any of the characters in this novel (Cathy Jnr and Hareton turn out ok in the end), but maybe that is the point. I respect that not all works of fiction need a ‘goodie' and a ‘badie', and applaud Bronte for not making these distinctions at all.

I found the majority of the book a bit of a chore to read, but admit that I was satisfied in the end. I understand why Wuthering Heights is a classic, but think I will rather side with her sister and the delectable Mr. Rochester.

Oh, and did anyone understand anything Joseph said?

I react to this book's story and speed of plot the same way I do several well known authors in New England area of the US, of the 1800s; I avoid. Just too slow and too depressing.

Gothic wilderness, madness, first loves, betrayals, childhood best friends parting and meeting again, castles, the highlands, wild, unbridled, intoxicating passions.

Wuthering Heights is phenomenal. Emily Bronte only ever wrote one book during her lifetime, and died not long after this one was published, but as it stands, Wuthering Heights is rightly enough to put her on the list as one of the best writers in the history of English literature.

This book is moody, fierce, brooding, intense, tragic and very, very beautiful. The prose alone is a pleasure to read.

When I first read Wuthering Heights, I spent the first half despising Heathcliff and Cathy. They were whiny bitches for the larger part, and when I was finished with the novel I couldn't figure out just why it was that I put the book down having another perspective to look back at those same characters now. Of course, they still made you want to punch them in the stomach, but you couldn't really avoid liking them as characters. It was the first book that inspired such intense dislike and yet made wonderful reading all the same.

This book is one of my all time favourites.

My first experience with Emily Bronte, and it was because this is required reading for my secondary school. It was probably wrong to introduce this story to a young crowd. The tale seems a tad dark. The obsessive theme coupled with the romance makes the tale somewhat confusing and difficult to connect with. Maybe I just need to re-read it now that I'm older.

I had to read this way back in 10th grade. I remember it mostly because of one day when we had a substitute teacher for English. We had to take turns talking about the events of the book. But then, when the entire class realized the substitute teacher hadn't read the book, we began making up plot points and additional characters. It was hard not to laugh.

But the actual book? I don't remember liking it. Lots of mooning about Heathcliff as I recall.