Meme of unread books

[vaznetti]

As seen everywhere, the list of books other people say they haven't read. The best part about this is learning that many, many people share my loathing of Tess of the D'Urbervilles.

Comments

[nestra]

Oh, you should read Jane Eyre. Much, much better than Wuthering Heights. In fact, I should have put Wuthering Heights on my "hated it" list.

[vaznetti]

I read Wuthering Heights over a couple very hot days immediately after finishing my Cambridge exams -- it was the perfect thing to read then because it was all misty and overwrought. So I remember it fondly for the reading experience, even though I recall that the characters were mostly crazy and unlikable and came to bad ends. But I will read Jane Eyre someday.

[nestra]

My dislike was the result of years of being told that Heathcliff was the ideal romantic hero. Around the time he started hanging puppies, I began to doubt that.

[cofax7]

::seconds Nestra's Heathcliff-dislike::

Hated that book and nearly everyone in it.

[tiferet]

I was traumatised for ages when someone compared something I'd written to that book.

I looked back at it a year or two later and yes, the characters I wrote there start out crazy, but they do get better and they WANT to do good.

[vaznetti]

I was traumatised for ages when someone compared something I'd written to that book.

Ack! That would be scary.

[fourteenlines]

*clings*

Other people who hated Wuthering Heights! For the same reason I did!

[vaznetti]

My dislike was the result of years of being told that Heathcliff was the ideal romantic hero. Around the time he started hanging puppies, I began to doubt that.

Although when you think about it, that explains a lot about fandom, doesn't it?

I remember not quite getting what all the fuss was about -- but then, I don't know if you've read those Thursday Next books by Jaster Fforde, but there's a hysterical scene where all the other characters (except Cathy) gang up on Heathcliff during an anger management session.

[se_parsons]

That book is so completely sick. It's great at being sick, but that's not the way most people are told to view it.

Obsessive love to the exclusion and abuse of others is NOT COOL, people.

I have no idea how that book ever got to be thought of the way it is. The crazy is all there on the page.

I still like it despite its hype, though. It's really a good book if you read it in the same way you'd read, say, "Notes from the Underground." Totally delusional narration.