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Title: playing it safe
Review: I was excited when i realized this book was a modernized version of Wurthering Heights, but was soon dissappointed. Not that I expected it to live up to the original, but I at least thought it would be an interesting take on one of my favorite books. For one thing, the book did not go far enough - Hoffman tried to keep it "safe" for the modern reader. Hollis (Heathcliff) is completely one dimensional, negelecting the reader of the one character that makes Wuthering Heights such a great novel. Bronte never gave the reader what he/she expected - which is that either Heathcliff would turn out not to be so evil or that all the other characters in the novel would wise up and leave him to suffer alone. Hoffman gives the reader exactly what he/she is expecting, and this is what truly made the novel inferior to its predecessor.
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