CURSE YOU EMILY BRONTE

[sobsister]

You've broken my streak.

I have loved enjoyed every single Bronte novel I've had to read lo this past year or so (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - not infuriating! Villette - charming and hilarious! Jane Eyre - surprisingly awesome! The Professor - delightful, full of lulz! Shirley - totally amazing! )

But now, now....Charlotte, why must you ruin

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[dollsome]

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Um, essentially: yes. Omg, Wuthering Heights, how so maddeningly terrible?? I'm in the midst of my blasted thesis and was getting a little grumpy at Jane Eyre and CharBro (stop trying to make Rochester happen! He's not going to happen!), but you have just given my life some much-needed perspective in that department. Bless you, Charlotte, for not being Crazy Emily.

However. Obligatory Best Thing Ever inclusion!!!:

[sobsister]

HAHAHA

So, basically the moral of the night goes: Rochester, so annoying - and yet NOT HEATHCLIFF. So.

Also, I JUST finished replying to your kick-ass Jane fic which was totally awesome and likewise perspective-giving. Brontes are always topical, apparently?

(On the phone to my Dad tonight, I might have accidentally said I was okay with Crazy Emily having died before writing another novel. Terrible person y/y? Bless you Charlotte indeed.)

[molly_may]

Have you read the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde? The basic premise is that people can enter into books and interact with the characters, and the characters can come out into the real world as well. The main character, Thursday, works for a group that polices novels to make sure that the characters behave themselves in the way that they were written. In the third book, The Well of Lost Plots, Thursday and her mentor Miss Havisham go into Wuthering Heights to hold a rage counseling session for the characters, which is interrupted by an assassination attempt on Heathcliff by a "ProCath" terrorist group. Google books has the entire chapter here.