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    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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    Waterstones Synopsis:

     

    "Wuthering Heights" is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

     

    This is not the first time I have read this book, but I must admit it was the first time I enjoyed it. The first time I read the book was for my English Literature course and I really did not like it, but this time I read it for enjoyment and it made all the difference. This time was different also because I listened to it, which I found helped me get into the story.

     

    Wuthering Heights is a great classic. A tale of love, jealously and revenge set in the Yorkshire Moors. Catherine and Heathcliff are in love, but Heathcliff leaves thinking Cathy does not love him. When he comes back he is angry and out for revenge. The story follows their families, they way they clash and how they each manipulate one another.

     

    Oddly, even though I enjoyed this book, I didn't really like any of the characters. I found them all quite similar: selfish, grumpy and manipulative. Everyone was out for themselves, even Nelly the narrator. However, I think this added to the enjoyment of the book, because I was forming opinions about them instead of being indifferent to them all.

     

    I liked how Emily Bronte wrote. The book was descriptive and it is a great story.

     

    4/5

     

    Audiobook: http://librivox.org/wuthering-heights-by-emily-bronte-2/

    Kate's Reading in 2010

    in Past Book Logs

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    I've been listening to The Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I loved it! I loved Sara, and felt so sorry for her while she suffered, but I loved her dignity and kindness. I was hooked to this book, and although I knew the outcome I really enjoyed it anyway :D

    Kate's Reading in 2010

    in Past Book Logs

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    One book I had been reading at bedtime was The Prophetess by Wendy Virgo, and I've finished it :D I pinched it from my Mum :lol: and am glad I did. Wendy is a Christian writer and I love her books. The Prophetess is her interpretation of the story of Deborah, a woman from the Old Testament who heard from God when the Israelites were under Canaanite rule and drifting from God. The story tells of how her faith and obedience to God and what He was saying led Israel out of poverty and oppression. This was a great read, I really enjoyed it.

    Unfortunately...

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    Unfortunately, Katie... doesn't own her castle yet, but she holds out hope that one day soon she can pull her berets out of storage .

     

    Unfortunately Katie still feels that her breasts are too big and has already scheduled a visit to America to have her 5th breast augmentation surgery.

     

    Unfortunately Katie was bored with life on the farm. She and Robert Sugden got closer, thinking it was lust and pre-wedding nerves, they began an affair.

    Hehe they are funny!

    Kate's Reading in 2010

    in Past Book Logs

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    I have just finished Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett. Not one of my favourites but I think part of that might have been because it was narrated by Tony Robinson, and I found the voices he used to be similar for all the characters so I was sometimes confused as to who was saying what.

     

    I think my next audiobook will be The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain :friends0:

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