Reading of Wuthering Heights Opens in Jo's Book Nook
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Posted by: Edward
February 28, 2009, 09:30 PM
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!
Enjoy!
23 Comments
129 Points
Ohh! I love this book! I am very excited!
186 Points
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!
2573 Points
I think I’ll check it out.
94 Points
This is great I chose to read it own my own for my book report for English.
392 Points
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! :)
1260 Points
Yay! I haven’t been able to finish it yet but hopefully I will soon.
6176 Points
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.
70 Points
I read this so much for my Eng A Level I think it made my eyes bleed, I did like it though I still think big Cathy is a twat.
Daphne Blake – True as your views of big Cathy are, you can’t use that word!! I did giggle when I read it though.
2235 Points
oi i’m readin this book. . . . . finish upto page 2 !!!;D :P
241 Points
What a great book. I imagine Jo might have taken some inspiration for the Ron-Hermione matching from Catherine and Heathcliff.
228 Points
I’ve meaning to read this book for so long but always found an excuse to delay it.
Now I’m really going to read it as soon as I can
4024 Points
Never read this book, maybe I’ll give it ago!
Have it sitting upstairs on my bookshelf :)
xx
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.
6907 Points
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!
Ohh! I love this book! I am very excited!