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Originally Posted by issybird
I'd always held that there are Emily people and there are Charlotte people and I was firmly in the Wuthering Heights camp. Jane Eyre is a lot more sloggish and there's much that's distinctly creepy about Mr. Rochester. Heathcliff, your garden-variety sociopath, didn't bother me nearly as much!
But then I read Villette a few years ago and loved it, so now I give Charlotte her due also.
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I definitely prefer
Wuthering Heights to
Jane Eyre, but that's not saying a whole lot, since I despised
Jane Eyre when it was foisted on me in high school and haven't been able to get through a rereading as an adult.
I revisited
Wuthering Heights a couple of years ago via audiobook. Eh.