50 books to read before you die discussion

Wuthering Heights is the 7th book on our bookmark list of 50 and our September 2017 group read. We previously read it as a group in May of 2014: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

I may read Wuthering Heights this month because I've been wanting to re-read it ever since I read it for the first time and loved it. I already have quite a few books I'm planning to get to soon though so I don't know if it will happen.

I've loved this book for years, and have reread it a number of times. On the surface, it is kind of hard to understand why I am so fond of it; Heathcliff is a truly awful, vindictive personality whose tainted shadow falls over everything and everyone, but somehow the people, the house, the atmosphere, and all the gothic elements combine to make an incredible story.

I have read it 4 or 5 times, the last time was because of a discussion somewhere on Goodreads about Heathcliffs ethnicity. I open the book just to check a few paragraphs and ended up reading it all over again.

I think these characters are built up so much through their actions and feelings and no person in this novel is truly good they are all completely human. I think that because this is how they are made to be it brings so much more to the book rather than just being a love story.

I’m listening to it now for the great American read and I’m finding it quite humorous. The characters and the story are hard to keep track of. I started to take notes.

Provide me a notes Kindel notes


On this book I can't afford to this book

Help me

I've found Cliffs Notes and Spark Notes useful in the past.

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literatur...
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuther...

It had never happened to me before reading Wuthering Heights that I disliked the majority of the characters and still loved the book.
I try to imagine that I’m reading it when it was first published and I think it would have been completely revolutionary, changing the typical romantic novel for a gothic one such as Wuthering Heights must have been strange to say the least.
I read this book for the first time just because I was named Catalina after Catherine and it ended up being one of my favorites.
I from Chile so I apologize if my writing is not the most fluent.

Hello Cathy, I read Wuthering Heights about 50 years ago as a teenager. We were on a family vacation and my dad was mad at me for burying my nose in a book when I should have been looking out the car window at the scenery. You have inspired me to give this classic another read. I am pleased “to meet you” through Goodreads, and your writing is excellent. And Catalina is a beautiful name!

The characters in Wuthering Heights are flawed and unlikeable, and felt real to me. Creepy but fascinating. That's how I remember this book. I wrote at the time "there's about a million and one quotes that made me stop reading and go find someone to share them with, either because they were so beautiful, so disturbing or so true, or a mix of all three." I'd love to read this one again too. Plus Mary, that image of you engrossed in this book on family holiday, the joy of reading!

I’ve tried reading the book at least 5 times and ever time I read about 50 pages and just can’t go on, it’s so difficult to read for me for some reason. I find it extremely confusing. Has anybody else experienced this?

I know what you mean Ethereal, I tried at least 4 times before finally finishing it. I found the beginning really hard going, it does get much better and easier as you go through it and by the end I found to my surprise that I really enjoyed it.