WOW WUTHERING HEIGHTS IS SO FUCKING BORING

I feel for you, OP.
It would suck enormous balls to have an attention span so shit you can't even enjoy a novel as well-written as Wuthering Heights.

>>24507906
>women

>>24507896 (OP)
Is it? I guess I'm not reading it then, since an anon in 4chan told me it's boring.

Same OP same...
Worst is I read works people consider way more anons deem 'boring' to go through like Moby Dick or Les Miserables and felt vivid joy through them.
But just something about Wuthering Heights...
Just the dialogue and the prose...
I don't know why but it feels weirdly autistic

>>24508641
It's a novel about the twisted emotions of overcomplicated assholes. It's mainly for women with borderline personality disorder.

>>24508646
Half of it is like that. The other half is a victorian melodrama where we wait to discover if the true love of a selfless maid can mend the manners of a rough brute whose behaviour belies his noble blood.

>>24508646
Well I am a man with BPD funny enough and I couldn't relate to it. I have a much easier time relating to female writers after the start of the 20th century.

why are all the boys to whom i am so attracted so bad? oh please dont ravage me on this dark night as the rain pours and wind howls mr ceo vampire werewolf rapist hybrid but with a heart of soi

>>24508641
>Just the dialogue and the prose...
I don't know why but it feels weirdly autistic
wtf?her prose is great.

>hehheh is it I, the infamous hethclif. I am the doer of countless evil deeds! w-what have I done you ask? well, I kicked a puppy once.. also, erm *cough* oh look at the time, if I don’t get going now I will be late to the villain meeting *runs over the moors*

>>24508749
The only female author worth reading is Virginia Woolf.

>>24509138
>female author worth reading

>>24507896 (OP)
Is it universally seen as a somewhat boring novel? I am considering reading it since I like some of her poems.

>>24509200
Nah dude it's fun as fuck and there are loads of high pace tense action sequences followed by rough dark romance type sex such as when Hethcliff was defending Moonbase Wuthering Heights from the crafty poltergheist using nothing but estrogen magic

>>24509200
It's hardly boring. Decent prose and completely fucking retarded (in a fun way) evil (in a fun way) characters ruining each others' lives. A much more fun read than your average realist novel. Tolstoy, Eliot & co. were putting me to sleep in comparison.

>>24509200
>somewhat boring novel
If this is boring for you, you shouldn't even be readig period. GO back to vidya

>>24508713
Oh shut the fuck up. There are a thousand ways to tell that story that are infinitely more interesting. People only jerk off WH because it’s an early example. The characters are insufferable and the concerns of the narrator are utterly domestic and mundane.

>>24509610
>The characters are insufferable
That's the point. I hate every single one of these retards, and that's what makes their dramatic downfall so enjoyable.

>>24508927
Overwrought Victorian English prose with too much meandering description of insular emotion, not enough allegorical symbolism or descriptive language to give weight or artistry to the towering BLOCKS of endless trite monologuing. Clear marks of an insufferable female writer who never married.

>>24509516
Go feed your cats and enjoy your screed by yourself, loveless hag.
>>24509515
>Eliot and Tolstoy put me to sleep
Filtered.
>>24509620
You want to spend hours reading about complete assholes doing awful things to each other? You’re either a woman (who inherently can’t understand the appeal and need for heroism storytelling), or you’re a pathetic weasel of a man who gets off on schadenfreude.

>>24509630
>You want to spend hours reading about complete assholes doing awful things to each other?
Yes. Yes, I do.

>>24509655
Don’t get enough of that already, huh?

You know, normal healthy people don’t want to be friends with weirdos who enjoy trouble, right?

>>24509667
You're the sort of pansy who don't see no appeal in Tarantino films, do ya?

>>24509622
You read too much in translation, in which nuance is lost but not replaced. All three Bronte sisters (and, for that matter, Eliot) wrote in magnificent prose.

>>24509667
Normal, healthy people enjoy Wuthering Heights. You're not talking about some obscure self-published cult underground work.

>>24509630
>heroism storytelling
Of course I do. My favourites are Cuchulin, Conn of hundred battles, Niall of nine hostages, Brian of Kincora, the ardri Malachi, Art MacMurragh, Shane O’Neill, Father John Murphy, Owen Roe, Patrick Sarsfield, Red Hugh O’Donnell, Red Jim MacDermott, Soggarth Eoghan O’Growney, Michael Dwyer, Francy Higgins, Henry Joy M’Cracken, Goliath, Horace Wheatley, Thomas Conneff, Peg Woffington, the Village Blacksmith, Captain Moonlight, Captain Boycott, Dante Alighieri, Christopher Columbus, S. Fursa, S. Brendan, Marshal MacMahon, Charlemagne, Theobald Wolfe Tone, the Mother of the Maccabees, the Last of the Mohicans, the Rose of Castile, the Man for Galway, The Man that Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo, The Man in the Gap, The Woman Who Didn’t, Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon Bonaparte, John L. Sullivan, Cleopatra, Savourneen Deelish, Julius Caesar, Paracelsus, sir Thomas Lipton, William Tell, Michelangelo Hayes, Muhammad, the Bride of Lammermoor, Peter the Hermit, Peter the Packer, Dark Rosaleen, Patrick W. Shakespeare, Brian Confucius, Murtagh Gutenberg, Patricio Velasquez, Captain Nemo, Tristan and Isolde, the first Prince of Wales, Thomas Cook and Son, the Bold Soldier Boy, Arrah na Pogue, Dick Turpin, Ludwig Beethoven, the Colleen Bawn, Waddler Healy, Angus the Culdee, Dolly Mount, Sidney Parade, Ben Howth, Valentine Greatrakes, Adam and Eve, Arthur Wellesley, Boss Croker, Herodotus, Jack the Giantkiller, Gautama Buddha, Lady Godiva, The Lily of Killarney, Balor of the Evil Eye, the Queen of Sheba, Acky Nagle, Joe Nagle, Alessandro Volta, Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, and Don Philip O’Sullivan Beare. Great heroes to be admired, one and all.

it's crazy to me that this was a book which, fifty years ago, was universally read and enjoyed by the majority of the british population, and now we have weekly threads where 'literature enthusiasts' get filtered by it.

phones bad i guess

>>24509678
Bookish, sex-deprived retards who read wuthering heights are adjacent with the same audience that reads monsterfucker porn and online fanfiction - not normal, healthy people.

>>24509733
>big list to imply heroism is overdone
Maybe there’s a reason for that? Almost as if heroism is more culturally significant to the formation and preservation of culture than any decadent distraction which serves only to undermine and erode it? Not everything “lost” by history needs to see the light of day. Not everything was worthy of proliferation. The current state of publication and art, with all its feminine ideals and nepotistic authority, ought to be a crystal indication of what women largely produce when handed the keys to the zeitgeist.

>>24509733
There probably better ways to spend time on your sabbatical than shitposting on /lit/ “Anon”.

>>24509678
>translation, in which nuance is lost but not replaced
This statement is akin to having a conversation with a psychopathic narcissist who subtly projects disdainful assumptions through backhanded observations, becoming irritated by it, then having a self-righteous third party enter and call you tone-deaf for not agreeing with the narcissist’s conceit on the basis of it being “nuanced”.

No, I understand that the narrative and subtextual intentions of the emotion are being communicated through the prose style and character narration. It’s just that it happens to be incredibly redundant and infuriating to read for anyone who isn’t an intellectual sado-masochist who hates joy.

>>24509782
>rich people being fucking annoying and pretentious when she just needs some dick
Yeah don't need 300 pages of this bullshit

>>24509630
Calm down, fren

>>24507896 (OP)
>"You don't understand, I have to escape the stable and responsible man in order to be beaten and abused by the gypsy boy my father adopted when we were children!"
Women were a mistake

>>24509200
I'd struggle to name a more intense, thought-provoking book, honestly

>>24509782
You make it sound like pop-lit, which is a very good reason to hold it in suspicion.

>>24511360
it *is* pop-lit in the sense that it was written for normal people and for most of the time since it has been written has been enjoyed by the general public. that does not mean it is not a classic.

>>24510927
why?

>>24507896 (OP)
It's peak incelcore, wdym? Approach it like reading a women hate thread and you'll blaze right through

Isn't this book about rabies?

>>24511360
It basically is. But then so is Tale of Two Cities and lots of other stuff. Still worth reading

>>24507896 (OP)
This book has so much purple prose, it's tiring.

>>24507896 (OP)
This book is racist.

>>24507896 (OP)
trvke but the boring parts are why it's good

>>24512351
That's its only redeeming feature

>>24507896 (OP)
filtered

>>24512351
What's wrong with beihg racist?

>>24507896 (OP)
The story was dull and uninteresting, the characters unlikeable but not compelling. The best thing about it is the Kate Bush's song I guess
Charlotte is the better Bronte anyways.

>>24511582
Because it's intense and thought-provoking?

>>24507896 (OP)
filtered

>>24507896 (OP)
Yeah, not my thing either. This and Jane Eyre were absolute slogs for me. I like exactitude in my writing, I want every sentence to be meticulously crafted or at the very least sparse enough that I don't notice the quality, whereas in Wuthering Heights it seems to be all about how the mediocre sentences form an overall impressive whole and that just isn't for me; I need the pieces to be beautiful too not just the finished image on the puzzle.