Book Meme - Day 5

[nozenfordaddy]

Day 05 - A book or series you hate.

I know it's a classic, I know it's a glorious tragic love story, I know it was written by a freaking Bronte but I have never been able to make myself finish Wuthering Heights.

I could care less what happens to any of them except maybe poor Isabella, the main characters aren't even a little sympathetic being a brute bent on revenge and a spoilt princess and the gothic air and prose I love so much in Jane Eyre (the other Bronte) or The Fall of the House of Usher (Poe) comes across as melodramatic and unwieldy.

On a more contemporary not, I managed to finish the first Anita Blake book (barely) but I continue to be mystified at why LKH's books are so popular.

Comments

Did someone say Wuthering Heights?

[shiplizard.livejournal.com]

It's a vile story about a vile sociopath and his vile ditzy paramour in which everyone bar no-one not even the nosy narrator is not vile vile vile or victimized.

That is why you don't like it, I think.

Re: Did someone say Wuthering Heights?

[nozenfordaddy.livejournal.com]

Probably, I will admit that I feel badly for Isabella who is the most victimized of them all. If it was a modern story I would feel less sympathy for her since she would have options but in that day and age she was utterly trapped.