Wuthering Heights

Keeping Up With The Karcrashians


I want to love this book a great deal more than I do. It's concept is something that arrests me completely; a look into the personal hell that a dysfunctional community of people can cause for one another. The writing is elegant and what one could expect from the time period and a skilled writer.
Yet, there is something in the execution that did not hold me. I don't know exactly what it is, but it after about sixty pages it became less of a joy and more of a routine to read. I still read it to the end because it is a good book, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Jane Austen but was perhaps putting this one off. The relatively low rating really only reflects the fact that I will not feel a desire to read it again for a long time, if ever. I'm glad I did read it though. It's beautiful and diabolical and intense.