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| Build the Open Shelves Classification : A proposed outline for fiction | | 59 | StarofSophia, Friday 9:44pm | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 12 July 2008 | | 315 | cameling, Friday 6:38pm | |
| 888 Challenge : Carlos 888 in '08 | | 56 | CarlosMcRey, Thursday 7:59pm | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : brochettes is trying to read 1001 books before she dies- and hopes that she lives a very long life.. | | 3 | brochettes, Thursday 7:24pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : pekala_'s reading list | | 17 | pekala_, Thursday 5:45pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : HeathMochaFrost's reading for 2008 | | 43 | callmejacx, Wednesday 8:50pm | |
| 20-Something LibraryThingers : Books Read in High School English | | 18 | ambushedbyasnail, Wednesday 8:38am | |
| 50 Book Challenge : citygirl's reading | | 77 | citygirl, Tuesday 6:32pm | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Kerian's 2008 challenge | | 40 | Kerian, Monday 10:53pm | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Jane Eyre | | 13 | Demiguise, July 19 | |
| FantasyFans : Who else collects more than one copy of 'special' books? | | 37 | flissp, July 18 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : merry10's 2008 challenge | | 144 | merry10, July 18 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : Carlos' 75 in 2008 | | 21 | Whisper1, July 17 | |
| Top 100 Novels of All time : Which books on the list have you already read, and are you reading one now? | | 16 | Dilsey, July 16 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 5 July 2008 | | 264 | Whicker, July 15 | |
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| 1001 Books to read before you die : June 2008: Which Book from the 1001 List are You Reading? | | 104 | billiejean, July 15 | |
| Hogwarts Express : What is everyone reading at the moment? III | | 641 | rissa, July 13 | |
| Hogwarts Express : Snape vs. Lupin | | 176 | shanfan, July 11 | |
| Reading Globally : Welcome & Group information | | 52 | lindsacl, July 9 | |
| The Green Dragon : The Do Not Bother To Read Before You Die Thread | | 70 | theduckthief, July 8 | |
| 888 Challenge : morninggray's 888 | | 27 | morninggray, July 7 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Delongebrodeur's reading in 08 | | 41 | delongebrodeur, July 3 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Sophie's-Choice of books for 2008 | | 8 | sophies_choice, July 3 | |
| Book talk : Do you read multiple books at the same time? | | 54 | Madcow299, July 1 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Top Five Books first quarter of 2008 | | 119 | rachbxl, July 1 | |
| Awful Lit. : 'Why are classics classic? | | 170 | bookstopshere, June 30 | |
| Kindley Book Club : Um...Whatcha Readin? | | 83 | garrybuck, June 28 | |
| High School Students : AP English | | 5 | miss_chievous, June 27 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - JUNE 2008 | | 220 | teelgee, June 26 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : BeSerene's Books of 2008 | | 45 | beserene, June 24 | |
| Group Reads - Literature : Next book suggestions - after Middlemarch | | 202 | teelgee, June 23 | |
| 888 Challenge : bookaholic girl's 888 challenge | | 29 | bookaholicgirl, June 22 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : OliveHoover's 50 Challenge | | 14 | OliveHoover, June 16 | |
| 888 Challenge : Retrogirl's 888 | | 19 | virginiahomeschooler, June 9 | |
| 888 Challenge : maryanntherese's 888 | | 2 | medievalmama, June 9 | |
| Virago Modern Classics : Which Virago are you reading? | | 271 | englishrose60, June 9 | |
| Someone explain it to me... : Wuthering Heights | | 21 | goddessladyj, June 7 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Toughest books to get through | | 111 | 0bazooka0, June 7 | |
| Reading Great Books : Great Books I have read | | 8 | Sandydog1, May 24 | |
| Book talk : Desert Island Books | | 61 | usnmm2, May 24 | |
| What did YOU buy today? : April 2008 edition | | 33 | benitastrnad, May 16 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Romance on the list? | | 17 | VivianeoftheLake, May 14 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What You're Reading the Week of 3 Mayl 2008 | | 158 | ellevee, May 12 | |
| Audiobooks : Authors you prefer in Audio over Print | | 11 | emanhaud, May 10 | |
| Fforde Ffans : Did you read [Jane Eyre] before or after [The Eyre Affair]? | | 18 | fannyprice, May 10 | |
| The Green Dragon : Please help my mom read | | 31 | ejj1955, May 10 | |
| Amazon's Kindle : Did you get your Kindle yet? | | 42 | Eurydice, May 10 | |
| Book talk : I can't believe I haven't read.... | | 14 | Michael_P, May 8 | |
| Cats, books, life is good. : What is your fave book/author? | | 18 | Harinezumi, May 3 | |
| Travel and Exploration literature : Non Travel books that have made you want to visit a place | | 63 | varske, May 3 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - April. 2008 | | 388 | milbaby, May 2 | |
| Awful Lit. : Awful Classics, Part 2: Son of Awful Classics | | 185 | marvas, April 29 | |
| The Green Dragon : Have you been bad recently (bought any books), Part 4 | | 431 | clamairy, April 8 | |
| What did YOU buy today? : March 2008 edition | | 37 | thioviolight, April 7 | |
| Girlybooks : 500 Great Books by Women | | 202 | primlil, April 6 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - DECEMBER 2007 | | 172 | lynnlib, April 6 | |
| 75 Books Challenge for 2008 : lizbet's 75 | | 6 | lizbet, April 4 | |
| Someone explain it to me... : Conversion Thread | | 3 | Sandydog1, April 1 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Lavinia starts April 2007 | | 95 | Lavinient, April 1 | |
| Hogwarts Express : Books You Dislike | | 80 | LettaAvanell, March 30 | |
| The Green Dragon : The TBR List from Hell | | 74 | citygirl, March 29 | |
| Book talk : List ten books that... | | 73 | bookladykm, March 28 | |
| Book talk : Your favorite book? | | 58 | Imprinted, March 27 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : Retrogirl's Challenge | | 4 | Retrogirl85, March 26 | |
| List Five Books Parlour Game : We're all afraid of something | | 14 | ostrom, March 26 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : reading jane eyre and wuthering heights at the same time | | 5 | Nickelini, March 25 | |
| LT's list of great books you should read : Action thread | | 60 | medievalmama, March 24 | |
| Catholic Homeschoolers : What Are You Reading Now? | | 9 | SaintSunniva, March 19 | |
| 1001 Books to read before you die : Can we do better than Boxall? | | 9 | Sandydog1, March 15 | |
| Singleton Showcase (Books!) : On the other hand........... | | 5 | jjmcgaffey, March 13 | |
| Writer-readers : What about short stories? | | 119 | yareader2, February 25 | |
| What do you recommend? : Getting down to the basics. | | 20 | bsquared46, February 25 | |
| Hogwarts Express : Top Twenty Books Shared | | 42 | Kerian, February 25 | |
| Book talk : Rereadings | | 64 | bookbesotted, February 25 | |
| I Love Jane Austen : Film Adaptations - Pride and Prejudice | | 44 | yareader2, February 24 | |
| Book talk : I'm 13 and love to read so what is everyones favorite book? | | 27 | ivyd, February 24 | |
| 50 Book Challenge : LadyN's 50 book challenge | | 43 | LadyN, February 23 | |
| Kindley Book Club : Welcome to kindle the kindleReaders club | | 44 | amacd, February 15 | |
| Dormant: 1001 Books to read before you die : Top 5 from the list read in 2007 | | 34 | Nickelini, February 7 | |
| Dormant: Historical Fiction : Most Popular Cover? | | 16 | ariadne02, February 5 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : First Line Game | | 238 | Irisheyz77, February 4 | |
| Dormant: CLASSICS: Books For Life (Let's Read The Books) : Is there a connection between Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights? | | 2 | VictoriaPL, February 4 | |
| Dormant: List Five Books Parlour Game : Where are you from? | | 31 | ostrom, February 3 | |
| Dormant: What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Came Into Your Home Today? - JANUARY 2008 | | 222 | Cariola, February 1 | |
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1: Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff, as Henry V in Henry V, as the nazi in marathon man, As Darcy in the Aldous Huxley adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in Hollywood in the 40's , As Max in Rebecca
2. Tony Curtis as the saxophone player using the Cary Grant accent in Som ... ... of the Alpine front, and the rest of his life.
It's a magical story, out of the thousands of books I've read in my life all the classics and most popular it's ONE OF THE BEST.
Can anyone recommend any other novels set in or around World War One?
Thanks and happy reading ... It, which was really quite cute. I think I might be ready for something a bit more weighty and grown-up, so I'll tackle Wuthering Heights tomorrow. I actually have the weekend off, and the weather is supposed to be a bit blah, which makes me think it'll be perfect for curling up with Marius. ... ... of the House of Usher
15. A Christmas Carol
16. The Pit and the Pendulum
17. Jane Eyre
18. Agnes Grey
19. Wuthering Heights
20. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
21. Mary Barton
22. Shirley
23. The Scarlet Letter
24. The House of the Seven Gables
25. Cranford
26. V ... ... and Fahrenheit 451.
My senior English teacher let me and a few other students who had already read Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights read other Bronte sisters books of our choice, and I really appreciated her flexibility on that. I think I read Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell H ... ... The Kite Runner I'll need something light to go along with it.
For my read-at-work-when-we're-slow book I'm reading Wuthering Heights, a classic that I've never read or seen any film adaptations of, and I'm enjoying it very much so far. ... read A town like Alice, The go-between, Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets, some short stories by Roald Dahl and Wuthering heights. ...
belles-lettres
Then there is:
religious fiction (Left Behind)
bildungsroman
coming of age
academic
psychological (Wuthering Heights)
domestic (Wuthering Heights)
war novels
I think one can use LT tagging to see how many people divide up their own libraries.
Then there are ... ... been able to settle on anything for any length of time. I've been bouncing back and forth between Five Children and It, Wuthering Heights, Garden Spells, and Topper. Unfortunately, none of them are able to keep my interest for more than a few pages, so what I'm mainly doing is running my ... ... Feedbooks:
Five Children and It
The Phoenix and the Carpet
The Story of the Amulet
(all by Edith Nesbit)
Wuthering Heights
The Princess of Cleves
From Amazon:
Enter a Murderer
Final Curtain
Hand in Glove
Clutch of Constables
Photo Finish
(all by Ngaio ... Last night I determined to leave the problems of Pern behind and devote myself instead to Wuthering Heights. Now that the principal characters are all introduced, I think I might be liking them just a little bit more. Well, still not overly fond of Heathcliff, but he is intriguing me a little ... ... of your response leads me to ask: "Why not?"
>134 Demiguise, people here gush? About books? I hadn't noticed....
Wuthering Heights is the perfect polybibliovore book. No matter where one leaves off, or for how long, the narrative reaches out and engulfs one's attention the second it's ... ... I might file it away for winter reading. Especially since at the moment, I have two books going which are kicking my butt- Wuthering Heights and The Princess of Cleves. :) ... Children And It by Edith Nesbit last night. Cute story so far and I think it will serve admirably to distract me from Wuthering Heights and The Princess of Cleves.
I am intrigued, however, by all the mention of The Lace Reader and may have to look into it. Because my TBR pile really ... I'm still slogging through Wuthering Heights and The Princess of Cleves. The first is taking me a while to get into, and the second is changing my first impressions- that of light and fluffy- which I was warned about. :)
I need something fun and frothy to offset both of these, but can't ... >259 richardderus, oh, great! And here I thought it would be a nice contrast to Wuthering Heights! :) Well, maybe that will keep me from abandoning poor Topper in all this.
Thanks for the warning. ;) I've begun Wuthering Heights. It seems to be a bit slow in starting, but I am hopeful that it will pick up soon; I am only three chapters in.
I also began The Princess of Cleves last night, which appears to be a sweet, fluffy sort of story. At least, that's the way it appears from the ... Right on, CarlosMcRey. I am not very familiar with old, gothic novels but I thought Wuthering Heights was a great book. Yes it is over the top and has some unpleasant characters, but I enjoyed reading it. I have Women in Love and Woman in White in my TBR pile. Of those I've read, I would have to go with Wuthering Heights. ... but I can't quite seem to get into it at the moment. Guess it's time to pull Marius (my Kindle) back out and start on Wuthering Heights. :) I don't know if this is really appropriate, but I really felt like standing up for Wuthering Heights and especially poor, misunderstood Heathcliff. Not misunderstood because I think he's a sensitive soul, but misunderstood because he's a monster who people seem to compare with Mr. Darcy.
I ... I've just finished Seamus Heaney's Beowulf translation (brilliant brilliant brilliant) and have started Wuthering Heights for Go Review that Book! I've also been hitting the Wainwrights, especially A pictorial guide to the lakeland fells: the Northern Fells, cos we're off there in just ... ... paper book (gasp!)- Final Curtain by Ngaio Marsh. This looks like a quick read, however, so I will probably start on Wuthering Heights before the weekend. ... I didn't even bother to read Eclipse. I feel it only fair to point out that I dislike Romeo and Juliet as well as Wuthering Heights, both novels that are supposedly very romantic, so apparently unhealthy relationships are not my cuppa.
I also did not like Eragon. People are ... I'm about 2/3 of the way through Persuasion and hope to start Wuthering Heights in the next couple of days.
I also found a copy of The Night Life of the Gods that looks hilarious, so I'll probably start that soon, too. ... apart in the last few chapters - nothing is explained, it's like he ran out of ideas and threw any old crap together.
Wuthering Heights a story of a lot of unpleasant people, behaving unpleasantly but we're supposed to forgive them because it's all for luuurve. - Bah Humbug.
I have The Host next to my bed to read (almost halfway) and Wuthering Heights..... Fingersmith
Wise Children 2 rollicking reads
Wuthering Heights suprisingly OK
The Idea of Perfection the pull of an Australian small town.
In Defence of Food for something completely different but good. There now, you see? I love Wuthering Heights, it's one of my constant re-reads. And I've read The Name of the Rose twice now, and after just recently talking about it with MrsLee I've been thinking I should read it again soon (I guess I'm weird too drneutron ;-) And after diligently ... ... liked the book. The other (Everyone Worth Knowing) by Lauren Weisberger wasn't worth the time, though.
I'd have to say Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I will never get that wasted time back. ... Bottom line, it was okay but not one of Simmons' best.
Liz, how about Wuthering Heights? I just read it a couple months ago, and would like to see your opinion on it.
Whoever is picking for me, please pick from my books tagged whymaggiemay in What Are You Reading Now? : Jane Eyre (Jun 26, 2008, 5:14pm) ... read it 5 times, but not for 40 years. Obviously time for me to put my core 5 in line for re-reading: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Complete Works of William Shakespeare, and Heidi. Wuthering Heights is finally finished! Took me awhile to get into it, as I did not really care for the main characters Heathcliff and Catherine. They just weren't likeable at all in my opinion..and I have to like them in order to care about their "love" story!! But the second half of the book ... ... In Wonderland and Through
The Looking Glass
10. The Stand original 1978 version
11. Jane Eyre
12. Wuthering Heights
13. The Witches by Roald Dahl
14. Memoirs Of A Medieval Woman The Life and
Times Of Margery Kempe
15. The HandMaid's Tale
16. ... 82. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, 1847
A complete change of pace into gothic revenge/romance. I liked it! ... novel I've never read.
Since I don't imagine either of these are going to be long reads, I have Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights lined up. I recently discovered Feedbooks.com and am loving it! Wuthering Heights - hysterically good. ... Women. It was probably the first book I read from the 1001 list many years ago.
The next book I would have read was Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte... One of the best things about Wuthering Heights is that it inspired the Wuthering Heights Anger Management scene in The Well of Lost Plots, which is absolutely hilarious, but probably not as funny if you haven't read Wuthering Heights. I too, really enjoyed the ghosts, angst, brooding, resentment of Wuthering Heights. I read classics on my own (not for academic reasons). I frequently refer to on-line study guides. That sounds like a lot of work, but it's in a way, a lazy reaction. I sometimes don't like to intently study ... Today I picked up Interview with the Vampire, Wuthering Heights and Black Dahlia. ... Wollstonecraft
10. Mothers of the Novel by Dale Spender
11. Memoirs of a Korean Queen by Lady Hong
12.Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
13. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
14. Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
15. The Professor by Charlotte Bronte
1 ... Oh no I am sure there are plenty of Wuthering Heights fans and I am glad to have read it. It will just not be my favorite either for similar reasons- self-obsessed characters who I don't like very much- only in this case it isn't satire. I just finished Jane Eyre, what to read next? Originally I had planned to read Wuthering Heights but then when I read the forward to Jane Eyre, Charlotte had much to say about Vanity Fair so I started thinking about reading that next and now lg and mar have been talking about it the last ... ... by Stephenie Meyer 1/26/08
7. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer1/30/08
8. Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer 2/4/08
9. Wurthering Heights by Emily Bronte 2/14/08
10. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous 2/18/08
11. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 2/24/08
12. Nefertiti by Mic ... Anyone else have summer reading for AP English next year? My class has been assigned Wuthering Heights and The Beggar. I read Wuthering Heights in a Women in Pop Culture class in college. We had to write papers comparing it to modern romance novels. That was a really fun project (I'm a nerd, I know), which helped me appreciate the novel. It's not very romantic, of course, but it was interesting learning how it ... ... 2nd half in just one day. It really picks up! I am def. going to check out the movie.
2008 book total: 26
Next up, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. ... I just went through a Brontes phase myself earlier this year after discovering I had only really read Jane Eyre. I read Wuthering Heights, Vilette and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Then of course I read The Brontes Went to Woolworths as well.
I notice it says in the notes that she ... Yeah for all the Dracula readers. I can't wait to see that discussion. Bib I read both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. I'd go for Jane Eyre over Wuthering Heights but that is me. I found Wuthering Heights a bit overwrought and I didn't really like Heathcliff or Cathy.
compski you are ... #41 - Haven't read Jane Eyre but I'd vote for that cause I'm pretty lukewarm about Wuthering Heights (my hub likes to call it Bluthering Heights *insert eyes rolling*)...which might explain why I haven't picked up Jane Eyre just for fun. ;)
If anyone's interested too, I finally wrote my ... ... go, so I should finish it tomorrow. I'm thinking Bronte next; which one though? I'm open to suggestions, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. (I'll look at Anne last unless someone changes my mind!) ... ki
34. Fathers and sons - Toergenjev
35. Madame Bovary - G. Flaubert
36. Uncle Tom's cabin - H. Beecher Stowe
37. Wuthering heights - E. Bronte
38. Candide - Voltaire
39. The golden ass - Lucius Apuleius
Edit: this is an update of books I'd forgotten to mention and book which I ... I read Agnes Grey this week, and I also liked it much better than Wuthering Heights. It was excruciating sometimes to read about Agnes' experiences with her pupils, but the book was surprisingly funny, which helped offset the darker parts. And what a sweet protagonist. Not to mention that I ... My vote goes to Emily Bronte's Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Even though he has a bit of the Byronic hero edge, he's just so single minded! He's the protaganist that I loved to hate because his passion drives him to the point of insanity. ... I think I will read The Shining, listen to The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket, and do another classic ebook...maybe Wuthering Heights.
I don't know though, I jump around a lot. There's so much to choose from! ...
Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor
The Loch by Steve Alten
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
I could go on and on...
Dixie City Jam by James Lee Burke
Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine
Return to the Forbidden P ... 46. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. 1001. I'm currently riding on a Bronte wave, having just completed two of the three sisters. I preferred Jane Eyre but perhaps that is just a matter of taste as I found Heathcliff and Catherine just as well drawn and passionate as the main characters in Ja ... ... and The Origin of Species
Works by Edgar Allen Poe
Great Expectations and Hard Times
The Warden
Jayne Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Walden and Civil Disobedience
Fathers and Sons
Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener and Benito Cerino and Billy Budd
Madame Bovary
Cri ... ... on my bookshelves, i.e.:
The Enchantress of Florence (English edition, I'll get it soon)
Buddenbrooks (Norwegian)
Wuthering Heights (Eng. + Nor.)
The Brothers Karamazov (Nor.)
Pride and Prejudice (Eng. + Nor.)
Madame Bovary (Nor.)
David Copperfield (Eng.)
Great Expectation ... ... - Thomas Hardy = 2
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo = 3
The Brothers Karamozov - Fyodor Dostoyevsky = 3
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte = 4
Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert - 6
I may have missed some, but this is a general overview and by no means excludes ... My votes are for (most are listed above already):
Wuthering Heights
Madame Bovary
Les Miserables
Count of Monte Cristo My suggestions for the time being:
Crime and punishment by Dostoyevsky
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Julie or the New Heloise by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky
Madame Bov ... Wuthering Heights I've read but I'm always open to re-reads because everyone here puts a new perspective on things.
So, thus far there's been Russian and English classics, so what about heading down the road of America and France? My suggestions:
The Bostonians by Henry James
Les Mise ... ... it and failed about five years ago, I usually have pretty good staying power -- but not with this book.
What about....
WUTHERING HEIGHTS by Emily Bronte
Lust for Life by Irving Stone
TESS Of The D'URBERVILLES by Thomas Hardy
I'm open... Looking forward to see other ... A couple of so-called classics that I should probably love and do not: The Great Gatsby and Wuthering Heights.
Another, more recent book that was highly thought of here on LT but I cannot stand is Beautiful Children by Charles Bock. I did not even bother finishing it. I finished reading Wuthering Heights, and I'm halfway through Songs of the Humpback Whale. I can't believe I haven't read Jane Eyre, The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath or Wuthering Heights.
I was an English major! And now I'm a librarian! I think the YA suggestion is good. I'm not so sure about some of the classics, though. Remember when Wuthering Heights and the like were written and how very convoluted the wording was. Likewise, with Shakespeare one has to "get into the swing" to understand him.
fleela, let us know how it ... ... Horror, Fantasy. Of course there is always The Hobbit and LOTR to fall back on too. Or the Classics like Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights Pride and Prejudice, Octavia Butler,Shakespeare,Great Poets like Bacon, Browning,Margaret Atwood, Joanna Russ, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Ma ... I'm halfway through Wuthering Heights, and I must admit it's way better than I expected. I finally finished Wuthering Heights. It took me about a week to accomplish it. I didn't like it at all, which is sad since so many people recommended it to me so highly.
I'll probably finish Anne of Windy Poplars before the day is over. Had Wuthering Heights not taken me so long, I' ... ... Edward fits that type I wasn't swooning but then I am not much of a swooner. And the books Meyer mentions in her book are Wuthering Heights and Romeo and Juliet. I found Heathcliff and Cathy annoying and there is some playing out of that she is deliberately referencing here. Neither of ... ... Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.
I'm currently reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. ... e
Tristram Shandy
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Frankenstein
The Last of the Mohicans (long time ago)
Dead Souls
Wuthering Heights
Fathers and Sons
Great Expectations
Notes from the Underground
Crime and Punishment
The Idiot
The Possessed
Anna Karenina
Germinal ... ... at the second, starting from when she stands on the cliff edge with her skirt billowing out -- when did this become Wuthering Heights? Honestly.) -- it is probably Austen's best and most likeable work (well, all her works are likeable, but P&P is particularly so).
But still, it is a ... ... Meridian as everyone seems to rave and rave about it. Anyway thanks for the heads up so I know what I am in for.
44. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. ... and time -- which I don't have (too busy reading) but I'll give it a quick go:
Middlemarch
Gone with the Wind
Wuthering Heights
A Hundred Years of Solitude
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (I guess thats three, but worth it)
Watership Down
Mansfield Park
Rebecca
Loneso ... ... Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A selection of poems by
W.H.Auden
In a German Pension
by Katherine Mansfield
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Not for Cats and The Rainbow in the Bruise
by Tony Weston
... Tales, Morgan le Fay in all the Arthurian stuff, Britomart in The Faerie Queene Catherine Linton, the daughter, in Wuthering Heights, Janie in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God
Contemporary -- Martha Quest in Doris Lessing's series, Fleur in Louise Erdrich ... Another library book sale for me too:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Crossing California by Adam Langer
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel
The Making of Britain: The Dark Ages by Lesley Smith
The Kings and Queens of England: A Tourist Guide by Jan ... ... both an old person (now that I've hit 30) and a nerd who loves reading. And I confess that, while I enjoyed reading both Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, I do not find them to be above criticism. I do not think at |
