Wuthering Heights

Listening to this as an audiobook was a VERY BAD IDEA. The orator doing the different voices for Heathcliff and Linton and UGH Joseph was just insufferable. Also it was like 12 hours long. I won't lie, by the end I picked it up to 1.75x speed and had to read some SparkNotes for the parts where I got distracted.

I had just finished watching Bridgerton and thirsted for more early 19th century romance and scandal. Alas, Wuthering Heights is not quite that. It's far more gothic and disturbing. And the fact that most of the book is told second-hand through the housekeeper Nellie, while an interesting literary device that leads to an equally interesting conclusion when the narration transitions into real-time, left me feeling unsatisfied. Like, cmon, she really remembered all of those details years and years later, and had the stamina to repeat them? I guess storytelling was the form of entertainment back then, so flourish would be common; so the natural conclusion then is that little of this is to be believed. Unreliable narrator and whatnot.

Maybe I'll revisit this in print sometime later, but I think I prefer the other Brontë sister.