Recommended by a schizophrenic friend of mine, I loved the dark richness of this rather tragic tale of love. Oh Heathcliff..

It has the slow, somewhat awkward pacing that was popular during this time in literature, which can make it difficult for a reader more accustomed to modern novels. But the story is strange and interesting, sad, but honest. Worth reading if you love to read.

It’s a classic, so you must read it but I just didn’t get it. I tend to dislike tragic love stories, of course or ones where I really don’t ‘feel’ for the main characters in the story – or like them.

Manages to be much more interesting than Jane Eyre with a plainer plot.

This is one of the books on my (embarrassingly long) list of should-have-read-by-nows. Summer also = catch up reading.

While I don’t like this as much as I liked Jane Eyre, this book is still quite good. It’s amazing how the emotions the characters experience and struggle with are the same emotions you and I still experience and struggle with.

This is an intense book, rather long sometimes, but a classic.

Picked this up after Anne Carson referred to her so extensively in Glass, Irony & God. I realized I had never read it.