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I couldn't get into Dickens at the approved stage of school, but reread several in my twenties, and realised that there are no normal people in Dickens - everyone is larger than life - a caricature if you will - and if viewed as a written forerunner of a comic book, the verbosity was pertinent in overpainting the characters.
I loved Wuthering Heights as a teen - and have seen several movies of the story which are fascinating in the variation of the directors' take on the characters. I've come to the conclusion that Cathy and Heathcliff were just totally out of control, but that could be the view of a straitlaced granny, as when I was a teen I was carried away by the angst and raging hormones.
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