Sep. 3rd, 2009

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At first I was appalled at Wuthering Heights being marketed to Twilight fans, but really, when you consider that all the Brontes began their creative lives as enormous Byron fangirls (except Branwell, but I believe he was kind of a fanboy) and Emily and Charlotte both carried it well into adulthood, I think they'd understand the obsessive devotion to an idealized male object of desire. But they'd probably be a little bit tripped up by the quality of the writing. I sure hope so, anyway.

I do have to say, though, the fans who react with "there's not enough of the love story" rather than "this book is about how your great epic love will make you and everyone around you first miserable and then dead"? Reactions like that trouble me. The sensible person's reaction to Wuthering Heights is "I HATE THESE PEOPLE," or "wtf is wuthering, anyway?" not "MOAR ROMANCE!" (Or, you know, you could take the mature approach and note that it's about how love does not only happen to nice people who make good or sensible decisions, and love does not redeem anyone or anything; but I read this book when I was fourteen and I HATED Cathy and Heathcliff.)

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