I Hate Wuthering Heights, and I Will Go to My Grave Hating Wuthering Heights. I Will Always Hate It

@DrWatson It's a fairly short read, so find out for yourself. I honestly don't see how people read it as a love story, or sex it up for the latest movie adaptation. For me it is about how a man is moved by his childhood experiences of extreme prejudice and psychological cruelty to plumb the depths of human depravity and destroy everything he loves and ultimately himself.

@SunshineGirl Now THAT makes sense.

I saw the old movie with Laurence Olivier, and that movie does depict it as a love story, with the two principals reunited as ghosts at the end. But the movie begins by depicting the sorts of things you describe, and if the book follows the path you described, it would have a very different tone to it. I think you just convinced me to read it someday!

@PDXNative1986 What did you think about the descriptive writing of the desolate Yorkshire moors?

I think it's great that you've engaged with the book enough to form such strong opinions. You're perfectly entitled to detest it. It just happened to speak very strongly to me for other reasons.

@SunshineGirl I can't help but view everything through a very modern lens and while everything might have been ok by the Standards of the 1800s today we regard such behavior as abhorrent, for a reason. Of the moors, it sounds pretty dreadful but then again I've grown up in the Pacific northwest, we have Winters like that. Desolate.

@yestestvennaya I could not disagree more. that's the merit.

@PDXNative1986 it's the problem.