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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jane Eyre. Loathed it as a teen. So hard to understand back then (30+ years ago). Love it now.[/quote]

Funny, feel the exact opposite. I thought it was romantic as a teen. As an adult, Rochester & Jane's relationship seemed eff'd up and don't even getting me started on the ex locked in the attic...[/quote]

I just started rereading Jane Eyre this week! I'm 44. Your comment reminds me of Wuthering Heights, through. [b]When I read it as a teen my mom told me she thought Heathcliff was hot, and my reaction was "are you crazy? Heck no."[/b] I reread it again about a year ago...and my opinion has not changed.

On newer books, I loved the two books (so far) in the Thursday Murder Club series. I don't think younger me would have loved a book about a bunch of 70-somethings in a retirement community but I'm just old enough now, with parents in their 70s, that i think it's funny and charming.   [/quote]

Ha, yes, that was my more or less my impression of Wuthering Heights as a teen/young adult too : all the protagonists are crazy and the whole book is enjoyably overwrought and silly. So I have never felt compelled to re-read it.  But perhaps I should, and like the first PP on Jane Eyre, would now go the opposite direction and find new depth and literary meaning!  :)

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