Emily Brontë's classic novel Wuthering Heights has been chosen as the next book in the Leaky Lounge's non-Harry Potter Book Club. Jo's Book Nook features discussions open to all Lounge members who wish to read a classic novel and take part in open discussions on many topics related to the novel. This time around, the analysis of the book is accompanied with a number of other activities, including a quiz to see which character from the classic novel you'd be. Check out what your fellow Lounge members are talking about in Jo's Book Nook today!
I’ve been meaning to try and read this again. I read about half of it in high school, but I didn’t appreciate it and I only read what I had to to get by in class. This is a good way to get me to read it again. Excellent!
I just read this book for school in december 08. Bronte is a great writer – i dont personally like this book though. but for those of you who have not read it – READ IT – its challenging and mind boggleing and when your done you can brag about it! :)
What a great book! I’d love to reread it, but I just don’t have the time to do with with all the reading I have to do for school, and lines I have to memorize for the play I’m in. But I just read it for the second time for a class last semester, and I had a great time reading it and writing a paper on it. There are some very interesting things to talk about.
Mhh, HollyLime, I rather thought that Jo may have been inspired by them for the Snape-Lily relationship. They also grew up beeing play-mates as kids and when getting older Lily got entangled with James, who Snape had as arch-enemie, a bit the same as Heathcliff and Edgar.
I read Wuthering Heights for school a few years ago. It’s well written, but Heathcliff and Cathy are such utterly unlikeable people that I really don’t find it romantic at all. It would be very interesting to reread with Harry Potter in mind, though. There’s actually quite a few similarities between the characters of Heathcliff and Snape, I think, both in terms of personality and even plot. Heathcliff is like a worse version of Snape because he’s not heroic at all and never does anything at all to redeem himself. Coincidentally, there’s actually a Snape/Lily song by the band Split Seven Ways called "More Myself Than I Am", which is a famous quote from WH, which alludes to WH. Interesting, huh? I have to wonder whether Rowling had Heathcliff and Cathy in the back of her mind when she wrote "The Prince’s Tale." Sorry, if I spoiled anything about WH. I was an English major in college and am, therefore, trained to overanalyze everything and find comparisons between all literature, lol!
"I will expect you at six o'clock on Monday evening, Potter. My office. If anybody asks, you are taking Remedial Potions. Nobody who has seen you in my classes could deny you need them."
Ohh! I love this book! I am very excited!