I have not actually read the book. *hangs head in shame* I've been reading tons of criticism *about* the book, though. LOL I know I'll love it when I get the chance. :)
hahahah! No big - read it when you can and then gush and wibble (I can't wait to go home now, I'm gonna dig out my copy and read it tonight.) I'm afraid I'm alone amongst my friends in my deep deep love for Jane Eyre. They're all Wuthering Heights fans. To which I say "Pheh. Heathcliff is a whiny pansy jerk. And I want to smack Catherine up like the prissy beeeetch she is." And then there are fights.
I'm with you. I've read Wuthering Heights fans and it just makes me want to wander the moors and hope I die. Jane has balls. Catherine's a bitch and Heathcliff is a jerk. Of course, Mr. Rochester is kind of a jerk too. :)
I just couldn't get into Catherine's or Heathcliff's headspaces. They were just too neurotic and dysfunctional and GOD the whining. My friends love the book because it's the height of romance (but I call foul because they loved it thanks to Laurence Olivier's portrayal. No fair! My response is if Sir Olivier played Rochester, they'd love JE too. Then we fight.)
I have to recommend a series that sends off WH, JE and a bunch of other literary characters that totally tickles my lit-nerd bone. You guys HAVE to read Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next (http://www.amazon.com/Jasper-Fforde/e/B000APXZAC/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1271299573&sr=1-2-ent) series. How could you not love a series where the Earnshaws and the Lintons have banded together to create a "We hate Heathcliff" support group, and have to attend an anger management class (moderated - with a pistol! - by Ms. Havisham of Great Expectations) where they do nothing but rag on how much they hate Heathcliff and Catherine, AND where Heathcliff gets horribly upset because Rochester won "Most romantic character of the year", breaking Heathcliff's 7 year winning streak? It is hysterical!
Did you know there's fanfic? Really, really good fanfic?
I don't think WH is the height of romance because never once have I thought to myself that digging up my husband's dead body would be totes awesome LOL but I do think it's this gorgeous and fucked up picture of obsession and passion and insanity. Yum.
ARE YOU KIDDING ME (ok, ok, this is the intarwebs and of course there's fanfic, but why have I never thought to LOOK?) Where are the good TH fanfic? Recs, please please pretty please omg.
And you're right - Heathcliff and Catherine define obsessive, possessive, insane, seriously jacked up love. But I still want to do massive violence to those two because, OH GOD grow up you two!
I don't think WH is the height of romance because never once have I thought to myself that digging up my husband's dead body would be totes awesome LOL but I do think it's this gorgeous and fucked up picture of obsession and passion and insanity. Yum.
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Ahem.
But there's necrophilia! Doesn't that count for something?
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Also, the servant who tells the story is not very believable. I cry unreliable narrator.
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*beams*
(Is it totally geeky that I am grinning to split my face because VICTORIAN NOVELS ROCK!)
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But I am also equally sure there is mad love in my heart for JE. :)
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I have to recommend a series that sends off WH, JE and a bunch of other literary characters that totally tickles my lit-nerd bone. You guys HAVE to read Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next (http://www.amazon.com/Jasper-Fforde/e/B000APXZAC/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1271299573&sr=1-2-ent) series. How could you not love a series where the Earnshaws and the Lintons have banded together to create a "We hate Heathcliff" support group, and have to attend an anger management class (moderated - with a pistol! - by Ms. Havisham of Great Expectations) where they do nothing but rag on how much they hate Heathcliff and Catherine, AND where Heathcliff gets horribly upset because Rochester won "Most romantic character of the year", breaking Heathcliff's 7 year winning streak? It is hysterical!
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Did you know there's fanfic? Really, really good fanfic?
I don't think WH is the height of romance because never once have I thought to myself that digging up my husband's dead body would be totes awesome LOL but I do think it's this gorgeous and fucked up picture of obsession and passion and insanity. Yum.
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And you're right - Heathcliff and Catherine define obsessive, possessive, insane, seriously jacked up love. But I still want to do massive violence to those two because, OH GOD grow up you two!
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Here's one! I thought I'd recced more.
Here's all the Yuletide fic: http://yuletidetreasure.org/archive/fandom_jasper_fforde__thursday_next_series.html
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LOL
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THIS! Wuthering Heights yay!!!!
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