What are you watching these days?

[Jeff Wrangler]

Wuthering Heights is one of my favorite books ever.

Oh, do we have to agree to disagree. Had to read it in a lit class, and I remember hating it.

Put me off on reading anything by any of the Brontes.

 

[southendmd]

I don't suppose Jacob Elordi could make you rethink this....

[Front-Ranger]

I even thought he was hot as Frankenstein so imagine what I'm thinking of him as Heathcliff!

[Jeff Wrangler]

I don't suppose Jacob Elordi could make you rethink this....

No, I don't suppose he would.

A hottie playing Heathcliff in a movie is not the same thing as having to slog through a book.

I might consider attempting "Jane Eyre"--but that's doubtful, after what I've just read about that book. Seems awfully melodramatic.

[serious crayons]

I'm not surprised. Wuthering Heights is a very difficult book. Told through not just one but two framing devices -- Mr. Lockwood, the tenant, and Nelly, the housekeeper, both unreliable narrators. The servant Joseph's quotes, written in arcane dialect. The unexplored mystery surrounding Heathcliff's origins. The second half of the book, about the offspring spawned by the couples who married in the first half ... and so on.

I first read it in 5th grade and loved it. Read it about 12 more times -- it was right up there with Gone With the Wind and The Godfather (I know, kind of an odd mix).

But as I told my son the other night, I don't think I could get through it now. I don't have nearly as much
patience. And I've never read any other book by a Bront?, not even Jane Eyre.