Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 14, 2006 17:58:48 GMT -5
earlier i watched most of the 1930-something original movie. i didn't watch all of it. but i was getting a bit confused. was it basically just cathy being stupid and not being able to make up her mind for the true love she knew she had or the socially benefiting love she knew deep down she didn't want? that's what i got out of it
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lostgirl
First short story featured in regional newspaper
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Post by lostgirl on Dec 17, 2006 1:07:40 GMT -5
^Don't go by that film. It's tremendously unfaithful to the novel
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Dec 17, 2006 13:15:02 GMT -5
haha okay i usually don't trust movies, or i ask other people who've read the book and seen the movie how well it portrays it. so thanks for telling me that the book is better than that movie. lol
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bookworm148
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of a sky of a tree called life."
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Post by bookworm148 on Jan 31, 2007 10:45:55 GMT -5
I loved Wuthering Heights. It took me a while to get through the middle because I didn't like Heathcliffe very much, but once you get past it, wow!!
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bookworm
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"Everything you can imagine is real" - Pablo Picasso
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Post by bookworm on Oct 7, 2008 3:14:38 GMT -5
I've just finished reading Wuthering Heights... It took me ages because I found the story so horribly violent and dark that I couldn't bring myself to read it! I do think it is a great book though, a very complex story brilliantly written... I both hated and felt sorry for Heathcliff, such a unique character... Now I really want to watch a film adaptation, possibly the one with Ralph Fiennes...
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Post by Hanna on Oct 7, 2008 4:00:57 GMT -5
Is that the newest one? Because I really enjoyed that movie:)
I'm planning to reread Wuthering Heights soon, it's like you said Bookworm, it's a very complex story so I feel that I need to read it again and again. But at the same time it is so dark, that I need some time between the readings...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2008 12:13:57 GMT -5
I read the book recently. And now reading this thread I have to check the movies. The book was so great, full of passion and crazy people Heathcliff was really scary, but I felt so sorry for him he lost his true love
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Post by Hanna on Oct 10, 2008 10:39:07 GMT -5
Yeah, sometimes I just wanted to hug him. To think of how different their life might have been had he been treated a little different when he was younger.
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neh
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I live in two worlds; one is a world of books"
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Post by neh on Oct 14, 2008 20:21:05 GMT -5
But i've always felt that the nature vs. nurtue arguement isnt quite as clear cut as we would like it to be, not only with Heathcliffe but with Cathy aswell, because you could argue that she was spoiled as a child and as such continued to live by the attitude that her needs mattered the most above all else, but then Edgar and Isabella probably had a similar treatment from their parents and they didnt abide by the same selfish desires, at least not to the extent that Cathy did. With Heathcliff i'm not the best person to judge, because troubles or not, i just really despise the man!
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Post by Dominique on Oct 14, 2008 20:35:43 GMT -5
But i've always felt that the nature vs. nurtue arguement isnt quite as clear cut as we would like it to be, not only with Heathcliffe but with Cathy aswell, because you could argue that she was spoiled as a child and as such continued to live by the attitude that her needs mattered the most above all else, but then Edgar and Isabella probably had a similar treatment from their parents and they didnt abide by the same selfish desires, at least not to the extent that Cathy did. With Heathcliff i'm not the best person to judge, because troubles or not, i just really despise the man! I think Cathy was left to run wild though in comparisson to Isabella wasn't she? (it's gotten a bit fuzzy in my memory now) In that sense she could be one of the many examples of female characters who go astray because they're left to their own devices/given freedom/not kept in check (for want of a better way of putting it).
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neh
Collection of short stories published by an independent editor
"I live in two worlds; one is a world of books"
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Post by neh on Oct 14, 2008 21:08:54 GMT -5
True, she did run free - i just meant she was still pretty indulged by her dad, and you could see even from a very young age how demanding and self-centered she was.
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Post by Dominique on Oct 14, 2008 21:29:12 GMT -5
That's true, it's the classic nature vs nurture argument. For Cathy I think it's probably a blend of her nature and her environment that made her the way she was.
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franzimeyer
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Post by franzimeyer on Feb 17, 2011 3:29:22 GMT -5
It took me weeks to really get started to read the book, but right now I´m so into it! I think the charactere of Mrs Dean is amazing because she is the One who got the perspectives and somehow she is always right.I always hope that she is not right and that the people aren´t as bad as she says but well! But I also like Hareton I think he is so cute, trying to learn reading and showing it to the young Miss Linton! Well I am not yet finished so I keep on reading!
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Post by Pilleriin on Feb 20, 2011 4:10:53 GMT -5
I read it last summer, and I don't know. I mean it is well-written and interesting, but I had some troubles with it. I got stuck in the middle, and I just couldn't bear to read it. It took me few weeks to finally finish it. And it did got a lot better towards the end ! I also think that maybe Twilight kind of ruined it for me. I'm not the biggest fan of the Twilight series, so I was a bit prejudiced even before starting the book. All in all, I think it was a pretty good read, really interesting, and Emily Bronte is an amazing writer, but there was a lot I didn't like. Maybe I just need to read it few more times ...
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franzimeyer
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Post by franzimeyer on Feb 21, 2011 6:39:33 GMT -5
Just finished it! I hoped this would be the end that Catherine and Mrs Dean get out of all this without dying like all the others! But that Heathcliff would die like that so all of a sudden. But I really liked the end when Hareton is marrying Catherine, somehow I knew it but I thought it would not be possible. But my favourite charactere remaines Mrs Dean, but now it is also Hareton, I just totally understood him wrong all the time!
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