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O Monte dos Vendavais, by Fernanda Pinto Rodrigues, Emily Brontë

ldpaige's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

logolepsy's review against another edition

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3.0

Tutto nasce dall'incontro di due bambini, Catherin e Heathcliff, tra i quali, subito, nasce un legame più che speciale. Il sentimento che li lega, fin da subito, è un'amore, anzi una passione, infinita, forte, indistruttibile e indissolubile, che li accompagnerà fino alla fine dei loro giorni, portando entrambe all'autodistruzione. Per quanto profondo, il loro amore è impossibile, e la vita e le circostanze li porteranno a restare separati per sempre, impossibilitati ad amarsi come vorrebbero.
Alla loro storia d'amore se ne intrecciano tante altre, sempre impossibili, sempre ostacolate, ma mai intense e profonde come quella che lega i due protagonisti.
La loro storia d'amore, infatti, è diversa da qualsiasi altra: ha qualcosa di oscuro, di morboso, di violento. La visione presentata dell'amore è del tutto nuova; non è più il matrimonio, l'affetto, il voler costruire qualcosa insieme. E' una passione incontrollabile, che sfugge alla razionalità, che travolge e trascina in un vortice di emozioni forti e insuperabili.
I personaggi sono tutti perfettamente caratterizzati, Heathcliff in particolare. Di quest'ultimo, è anche perfettamente evidenziata la sua evoluzione interiore, che lo accompagna fino alla fine, facendo di lui un personaggio molto dinamico, ma che conserva sempre alcune caratteristiche peculiari.
A fare da sfondo a questa storia, l'aspro paesaggio ventoso, cupo e solitario delle colline inglesi, molto ben descritto, precisamente e dettagliatamente, che è in grado di rispecchiare perfettamente l'indole dei personaggi del romanzo.
In conclusione, un capolavoro imperdibile e senza tempo.

ludovichy's review against another edition

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dark emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

classic literature but let's make it toxic

sabsey's review against another edition

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5.0

My head's still spinning. This book was so wild and so strange and looking back on it, pretty brilliant. Wuthering Heights destroy's you much in the same way it destroys the characters, anyone you want to love or even like you will end up hating at one point or another, and many of the characters swing wildly between loving and hating each other until their deaths.

I feel so out of breath finishing it, the intensity and passion that bursts through the page is almost physically effecting. I can't quite describe it, but I feel like I need to lie down for ten or a hundred years.

I know this book is one people either destest or love it to bits: I mentioned to one friend I was reading this and she rolled her eyes and said "ugh why?." And then, when I pulled it out later with another friend, she saw the book I was holding and went "Yes! I love that book!" And going down through my list of goodreads friends, there's either all five stars or all one/two stars. I think more than anything that's a testament to Emily Bronte's writing. It makes everyone who reads it feel something powerful and immense.

lizscanlon's review against another edition

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Lord knows I tried to read this... I haven't been so bored for a while... 188 pages was a very good result for me considering I wanted to give up at page 30... Sorry Wuthering Heigths lovers..

sara_bojinca's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

fangirlashley1's review against another edition

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challenging emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

molllllusk's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

tej's review against another edition

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dark emotional tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

kirstynwillis's review against another edition

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3.0

Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Jane Austen….I get it. They’re beloved classics. But WHY must they be so dramatic??? Idk, I cant. But that’s just me