July 17, 2003
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë: I was excited when I was able to borrow this book from a fellow Book Crossing member. I kept thinking, “Tragic, gothic romance. Should be right up my alley!” Unfortunately, I found it not to be.

I know that I’ve liked other books from this time period (Jane Eyre and (Madame Bovary for example), but I found Wuthering Heights to be extremely difficult to get into. I also had a rough time keeping track of the characters and their relationships to one another as well.

To me, I think the biggest problem was that I didn’t really like any of the characters. By having no particular character to root for, it became a laborious task to continue with the book. However, around page 200 or so, I finally found a character that I could sympathize with and like and I felt that the book picked up and managed to draw me in since I did want to see how it ended. I don’t know, though, if slogging through the first part of the novel made it worthwhile.