Comments | kayselkiemoon: regarding the merit of a literary man with a wooden leg

kayselkiemoon

regarding the merit of a literary man with a wooden leg

Jan 19, 2009 22:00

what do you all think about Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights? Masterpiece Theatre just finished airing a new adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and now they're presenting a new adaptation of Wuthering Heights. such cheerful subject matter! *scrunched nose* the summer I was 13, I read Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Brontë), and ( Read more... )

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superfin January 20 2009, 03:59:04 UTC

When you come up next weekend give Jenjen and i a ring. Not waht are plans are but maybe we can hang. :0
As for a Brontë to read:Agnes Grey

We just watched Tess: Damn what a great version. i loved it. *But if you ask Jen she will tell you i was yelling at the TV every time thing went bad for tess.

olivia_cochrane January 20 2009, 04:56:54 UTC

That is a wonderful passage. I just can't get into Dickens, somehow, although I really enjoyed Great Expectations. David Copperfield, though, I managed to get halfway through twice and was repelled at that point both times. I just can't stand to read about a kid whose life sucks so utterly and completely ( ... )

grazia January 20 2009, 05:26:34 UTC

I liked Wuthering Heights, but I think it helps if you're reading it as a gloomy misanthropic teenager. You have to be in one of those "the world sucks" kind of mind-spaces. When I re-read it as an adult, any charm it held for me was nostalgic (much as re-reading Catcher in the Rye).

That's why, actually, I think Tess is a truer book -- just as gloomy, but without the romanticism of gloom. When I read that as a teenager, I loved it but found it almost unbearably difficult to read -- it's so painful. Same with Jude the Obscure, which is my favorite Hardy novel.

nimoloth January 20 2009, 11:30:48 UTC

I love Jane Eyre, having only read it recently. I don't really know the other stuff.

There was a fantastic BBC adaptation of Jane Eyre quite recently that's well worth finding if you can.

penguin_beta January 22 2009, 11:49:45 UTC

what do you all think about Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights?

Life is too short. I read it for school when I was about 14 and couldn't stand any of the characters (I believe my final essay was a scathing commentary on why they were all acting like brats, which is pretty rich coming from a 14 year old). I keep thinking I should give it another chance at some point, maybe I would find new things to appreciate about it, but then I remember the old adage "so many books, so little time", and go read something else instead.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall I enjoyed immensely, though I think the narrator could use a swift kick in the breeches and have no idea what the heroine saw in him.

kayselkiemoon January 22 2009, 23:30:19 UTC

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall I enjoyed immensely, though I think the narrator could use a swift kick in the breeches and have no idea what the heroine saw in him.

I agree! ^_^

the old adage "so many books, so little time"

so true, so true. although it is a comfort to me to know that I never have to worry about running out of books. so many possibilities!