Wednesday, 3 December 2008
Bronte vs. Bronte
Another little quiz to see what's what for Stuck-in-a-Book readers... this time it's a bit of a grudge match, as they've been fighting it out for well over a century. Step forward, Jane Eyre vs. Wuthering Heights. Ladies and Gentlemen, place your bets. Or, rather, your favoured title...
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Jane Eyre hands down!
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ReplyDeleteTabitha (Australia)
Definitely Jane!
ReplyDeleteKaren
New York
Jane all the way!
ReplyDeleteAnother vote for Jane here!
ReplyDeleteJane! Nothing like a Woman Who Knows What She Wants. (And gets it!)
ReplyDeleteWuthering Heights. Definitely.
ReplyDeleteIt's Wuthering Heights for me. It was the first Bronte book I read and I loved it.
ReplyDeleteWuthering Heights!!!
ReplyDeleteWuthering Heights!
ReplyDeleteSimon, this is very unfair. It's like asking me to choose btween my children (if I had any, which I don't). Can I vote for both? I've read them both at least a dozen times. Please?
ReplyDeleteGah! I don't really want to choose, but ultimately it's going to be Jane Eyre. But I really, really love Wuthering Heights too.
ReplyDeleteIt used to be Wuthering Heights for me but having only read Jane Eyre recently I would say that it has the edge slightly. Embarrassingly it is Mr Rochester that swings it!
ReplyDeleteAnother Jane Eyre vote!
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre gets my vote. RESPECT and all that...
ReplyDeleteWuthering Heights...Wuthering Heights....Wuthering Heights...!! :-)
ReplyDeleteJane for me too. Everyone in WH needs a good slap!
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre, without a doubt!
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre's my winner!
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre.....difficult though.
ReplyDeleteC.B.
Wuthering Heights. No contest (for me). :)
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre, but only just!
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre of course!!
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre, every time.
ReplyDeleteThis is just not fair....how could anyone possibly choose?!
ReplyDeleteNo contest - it's Jane Eyre of course!
ReplyDeleteWuthering Heights!
ReplyDeleteI love Jane Eyre
ReplyDeleteWuthering Heights, hands down, despite the fact that I hated it when I first read it (aged 13) and loved Jane Eyre... However, when I re-read it for A-Level it really blew me away, and remains in my top ten reads to this day. And where would Kate Bush have got her first hit from, had it not been for the mighty WH??! The mind boggles.
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Definitely Jane Eyre. Every time I read it I feel as if I am going on holiday to a much loved destination.
ReplyDeleteDeb W
It seems that Jane Eyre is coming out as the favourite but I vote for Wuthering Heights (though both are brilliant).
ReplyDeleteJane Eyre!! (I read them both a week a part last year. HATED WH; LOVED JE.
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ReplyDeleteI've struggled over the years to persuade OVW of the virtues of Wuthering Heights, but even my Kate Bush imitation has proved inadequate. When I suggested that I give two votes for WH on our behalf she declared the tome to be abominable and that she would never voluntarily read it. (But she blames her irascible comments on hunger - having just returned from the supermarket but not having eaten for many hours). So it looks like.
OV - WH
OVW - JE
I had to do WH for A level and hated it, and didn't find it had improved when I re-read it a couple of years ago, so I will pick Jane Eyre.
ReplyDeleteBut am I the only person who would quite happily do without both? *Why* does everyone make such a fuss over the Brontes? I have a sneaking suspicion that they would be much less popular if they hadn't had tragic lives and died young.
Jane Eyre for me - I agree with Julie "Everyone in WH needs a good slap!".
ReplyDelete"Wuthering Heights"!!! Definitely. It's a genial book.
ReplyDeleteI liked "Jane Eyre", but I think WH it's superior in many aspects.