Why do I read this book again? It is a little depressing and I don’t care how much Catherine and Heathcliff love each other, they are spoiled and annoying and so very tragic. But here I am, reading it again. I’m just about as hopeless as Catherine herself. Recommend me something that doesn’t involve soul mates, unrequited love, and death. Oh, yeah, and it can’t be about vampires.
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Ender's Game. I tell myself everytime I pick it up that I'm only going to read the introduction or the first couple of pages just to kill some time, but the next thing I know, I've finished the whole thing.
Of course the similarities to Wuthering Heights are very close, but at least it is set in the future ...? And the vampires are few and far between.
Marty,
Uh, sorry, I just re-read, Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Zenocide, and Children of the Mind. So get me a new recommendation.
I have that same problem with Wuthering Heights--except that I keep reading it thinking that this time I will like it. After all, I got a degree in English. Hasn't happened for me yet.
Oh, ick. I hate Wuthering Heights. Try Jane Austen, instead. Or, if you're in the mood for historical fiction and swashbuckling fun, I don't think anything beats The Count of Monte Cristo. I can pick that book up, but I can't put it down.
Alright, alright. I just had to throw that one out, you know. Here are my other recommendations (you ask for books from me, you're going to get more than you bargained for):
1. The Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellaburger. Set in Italy around the time of the Rennaissance. It's got swashbuckling and all that.
2. Something from Jules Verne. He is a really good storyteller.
3. Shakespeare. You can't go wrong with the bloke. Of his plays I HIGHLY recommend "The Merry Wives of Windsor." It is soooo clever and so funny. It's great. You must read it sometime, it might as well be now.
4. Cyrano de Bergerac. I don't know if you've read this yet, but I think it is one of the best plays ever written.
5. Something from P.G. Wodehouse. Try something different than Jeeves and Wooster, since you're so familiar with them. I just read and LOVED "Pigs Have Wings."
I'll stop there, but if you read any of those, you will not regret it. Or if you do, I at least won't be close enough for you to come chastise me.
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