"Tomfoolery, mediocrity, and more., December 5, 2005
Reviewer: S. Shen "Uneducated Fool" - See all my reviews
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Possibly the most uninspiring and redundant book I've ever read, Wuthering Heights is inundated with Emily Bronte's so-called unique style. It's style is unique alright, if by unique you mean a brand new alternative form of euthanasia. Nevermind the fact that Bronte's "paragraphs", which are actually composed of one or two extremely long sentences, have superfluous clauses slapped on top of each other repeatedly. The syntax of these sentences is not stiff or constipated, but in fact, it is just the opposite. It is more like the imbibement of heavy laxatives, and the resulting inducement of loose and watery diarrhea that runs across the pages, unpredictable in its rampant tides that sends everyone over the hills. When do the prepositional phrases stop Emily? When? Unfortunately, this was a book that I was required to read for school, and I managed to read a grand total of half of the book before I shut it, never to bother it again. However, what do I know, I'm just a high school student that is just following his personal intuitions about Wuthering Heights. For a more thought-provoking and relevant book in modern-day society, go read George Orwell's 1984. You'd be surprised at how its content trumps the romantic trainwreck that is the brainchild of Emily Bronte" -
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/customer-reviews/0553212583/ref=cm_cr_dp_2_1/103-4695632-9587834?%5Fencoding=UTF8&customer-reviews.sort%5Fby=-SubmissionDate&n=283155i remember having that book read to me, word for word, in community college.