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⌈ Secret Post #2342 ⌋

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Comments

[dreemyweird]

Different strokes, eh? I don't consider it reasonable to support the opinion that there are ultimate universal criteria of what is good and what is bad in literature (although there are definitely some reliable ones when it comes to technique).

But I'd be interested if you shared your reasoning. I get finding the book boring, but why is it "badly written"? The language is quite good, I think, and I remember the plot being interesting. Besides, I was... horrified by the ghost scene. Couldn't sleep properly for a couple of nights.

And as to "bad" and "good" literature in general, now that I think of it it turns out I have never been bored by a book that was a universally recognized classic. Not a single one. I... don't know what to make of it. And by "not bored" I also mean "I thought they were all well written".

[(Anonymous)]

There's a lot of interesting experimentation in WH that made a lasting impact on The Novel. But there are some missteps in there too. Nelly's narration is implausible in places. Especially where Bronte is building atmosphere, and you're suddenly confronted with the realistion that this servant has been sat for the last fifteen minutes about Cathy and Hareton and "bees humming dreamily about among the bloom" and "great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze". It's the original How I Met Your Mother in that regard.

There's also a widespread agreement that the pacing flags somewhere in the middle of the second Cathy's story. Lot of people get fed up and bored trying to keep track of who's whom, and I don't think that's all on the reader.

[dreemyweird]

Thank you! This makes sense. Detailed first-person/third-person storyteller narration can be quite ridiculous at times. Apparently it didn't bug me in Wuthering Heights, but I understand the sentiment perfectly.

Also this is a good comment.

[(Anonymous)]

I was wondering about this as well. Boring, I totally get, but I don't think that the book was written that badly. I quite enjoyed the book despite the slow moving, boring bits here and there.