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RE: Wuthering Heights, the Movie

From: "Forward, Jonathan" <JForward@sitgbsd1.telstra.com.au>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 97 08:47:00 EST
Subject: RE: Wuthering Heights, the Movie
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> From: Allan Anderson
> Date: Thursday, 16 January 1997 5:53AM
>
>
> i just saw this recently.  It was in colour, so i presume that it was
> the remake of the older one that inspired our Kate. ?
>
> it got to me.  I wasn't really expecting it to, as I'd always filed
> the story (which I've read part of, I know, I'm a slacker) as
> 'stupidly passionate and abusive'...not very admirable at all.

 It's a very slim volume (slacker!) and well worth reading, even more
 so if you know something of the Brontes' lives. I found reading Emily's
 reaction to scathing reviews of her excellent book particulary moving.

 TSB