Comments on: ‘Twilight’-branded ‘Wuthering Heights’: Love or loathe?

By: Alexandria

Alexandria — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:02:14 +0000

Honestly, I don’t think it matters what the cover looks like… it’s the actual book that matters, not the cover art.

By: trav

trav — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:37:38 +0000

I read Wuthering Heights in year 10 at 17 and found it to be an immensely difficult read, however I did enjoy it. Twilight is perhaps the simplest book I have ever (partly) read. If some Twilight-obsessed air-head thinks they will be able to cope with Wuthering Heights, I sincerely wish them luck. While HarperCollins will probably make a fair few dollars out of this, it is still a ridiculous idea.

By: Elise

Elise — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:41:30 +0000

This makes me sick.

I know it probably makes more non-nerds read classics of their own will, but I feel as if Wuthering Heights and other classics are tainted by Meyer. They’re identified simply because Bella reads them, when they really should be identified for their own merits and the achievements of their authors (as opposed to the merits of some author who came along in the 21st century and slapped her propaganda on them).

And besides, the Bella and Edward versions aren’t very well made. I have a classic-bound version of Wuthering Heights, and it’s absolutely awesome. It stays together well, too; I’ve seen that my peers’ copies of the Twilight version have a huge curve in their covers. They begin to look old after one reading. My ancient version is in much better shape after roughly a century’s worth of reading and abuse.

By: Cammie

Cammie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:26:08 +0000

^^^precisely! Remember that Twi-hard in youtube? She actually SAID that Meyer was a better writer than THE Stephen King. I think it’s just because she CAN’T read the book. Same case here. Either the kid would start appreciating decent literature, or quit Wuthering Heights after the first three pages.

By: Cammie

Cammie — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:23:24 +0000

to Olivia ^^ Same thing. I’m 14;I loved reading and writing since I was seven, and I used to like the Twilight series (mostly because a lot of my friends do). Then I took a literature class and saw the truth. Twilight does not have the artistic and emotional depth Wuthering Heights has. And to those who think these covers would make teenagers appreciate classics more? Well, the results may be one of these:
a)Twi-hard teen girl sees a copy of Wuthering Heights with the new cover and buys it.She reads the book,decides that she loves it,begins to dislike Twilight and moves on to more mature literature.
b)Twi-hard sees a copy and buys it,then quits reading mid-way because it’s not the easy-to-read cheesy, cliche romance novel she expected.

By: dani

dani — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 14:37:34 +0000

As if Twilight readers can comprehend Wuthering Heights.

By: Bailey

Bailey — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:38:21 +0000

i think that this is a good idea to get other kids to realize that there is other great love stories besides twilight (even though i am almost over obsessed)! Some people have read the twilight series over and over again and i have too but then i saw “pride and prejuduce”, “wuthering heights”, and “romeo and juliet” i read all three and love them all!

By: Tessa

Tessa — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:36:04 +0000

p.s.
if you think this should be a better book, maybe you should try to make i romance about teenage vampires and make it a world-wide best seller, and she worked very hard on this and its really rude and dis-respectful so go make a freaking website about is and talk sh*t its just so unkind, rude, and cold. I’ll tell you this right now, your not going to get a guy acting that way, find something better to do with your time than go make Stephnie Meyers feel bad. She did a great job, especially being a stay home mother that has children to take care of! than you see what its like. I’m just going to stop here because im about to freak out. GROW UP!

By: Tessa

Tessa — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 03:00:38 +0000

y’all obviously don’t know the meaning of a romance book, i mean really twilight saga owns, and you just wish you could find someone as caring and smexxii as edward. and no im not a little girl i am 15 years old and the twilight saga totally owns. and your jealous so take your hatred and riot wanna be – ness and go hate on another book that needs to be hated on !!

By: aaron126

aaron126 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:49:31 +0000

Almost anything is worth getting a younger generation to revisit classic literature. Changing a cover picture does not affect what is inside, so I think this is an excellent idea!