Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

197 • 376 pages

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Average rating3.6

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I went into this book knowing that it is not a love story, that people either love it or hate it, and that the characters would all be despicable.

I hated it. It was not in the slightest a pleasurable reading experience and it felt like such a drudgery to keep turning pages.

The story did not draw me in and I did not like the writing style at all (not for a lack of appreciation for classics, because I am very much enjoying reading classics now as an adult; but I truly cannot understand why the people who love this book praise its writing style so much).

Every character is unlikeable, which I expected, but I also felt that the characters lacked depth and that their mental illnesses, evils, and overall character ???arcs??? were ill portrayed.

As for the descriptions of the moors, which seem to be an aspect of the book that some readers find especially awe-inspiring, ???I could never see anything extraordinary in them.???

I shan???t be recommending it to anyone else.

November 7, 2021