Wow, just wow.

excuse me, I have to go weep now

they should make a "twilight...and zombies!"

that way we get to read about in gruesome, nauseatingly detailed manner about how edward and bella and the entire god forsaken city of forks get ripped apart and have their entrails devoured by an army of the walking dead

anyone smell a crossover?

I always pegged Edward as a fan of Rimbaud and Ella as a fan of Judy Blume.

.....Damn it.
@ Lincolparadox - I imagine Hop On Pop and the Cat in the Hat would be more up their alley.

Now I never spent any time reading or even looking at a twilight book. So I don't know but is this even brought up in the books? Is there some part in there where the dialog is

B: I am so detached from the world I am a unique rebel.

E: I Love that you are so unlike everyone else that you buy all your clothing from Hot Topic, and look I sparkle outside rather then burst in to flames

B: I like books I once read Wuthering Heights it was awesom

E: Yeah I love that book. hey do you smell fish?

B: I think thats my Vagina

E: Weird I thought it was mine

http://yfrog.com/3wtwilightstinkyvag4chanj

there is a visual refrence

I'm callin' BULL**** on this here Twilight mess,right now,Bo![/Early Cuyler]

Damnit, I think I've been spending too much time not giving a fuck about twilight. Not only I didn't realize it was a rip-off cover, but I actually thought "Bella and Edwards" was some sort of TV show, a bookstore, a Cafe or a website.

And my gym's recepcionist is a sweet, cute girl who's totally on twilight. Starting out a conversation about disney buing marvel isn't really taking me anywhere.

I remember when the Twilight relationship was on television every week as Buffy and Angel.

Any time I see Twilight shit in the stores I go off on a 20 minutes rant on how Hot Topic has destroyed any semblance of 'counter-culture' and that any retailer who has a 'Twilight' section should be burned to the ground and the CEO's entrails pulled out and fed to angry hogs. I dunno. I don't even listen to myself when I rant about it anymore.

Technicly speaking, Edward is an Ephebophile, since Bella has reached sexual maturity, but not the age of majority, or empotional maturity.

anyone smell a crossover?

No, and not least because Twilight vampires seemingly require something on the order of depleted uranium APFSDS to be destroyed. Zombies just aren't going to cut it.

Oh, and Rob, Jane Austen may have had "feisty and strong-minded" heroines, but what's rarely remarked upon is how her male characters generally have as much depth of characterization as Prince Charming in Disney's Snow White (which is to say, that of damp cardboard) and have roughly the same impact on the bulk of the story.

Aw, why must they soil Kate Bush's favourite book with their cannibalistic undead posing. :(

My heart just died. I was forced to replace it with some hastily done up wiring.

I'm an English Major. Yet I am so dumbstuck I cannot bare to edit my grammar in this post.

Why, WHY must they make a horrible novel worse?

Also, to kill the Twilight leeches we need only one thing: old World of Darkness characters. Any of the.

Twilight, why must you spread your evil tendrils of corruption into the world of real literature? What's next, the Twilight cover of Romeo and Juliet? The only thing that's remotely funny about this is the fact that Bella thinks Heathcliff is super romantic and awesome, just like her Edward. More proof that her brain is mush. Although, you know, there might be some unintentional parallels there...

and the world inches another second closer to Armageddon.

That is truly one of the most godawful things I've ever seen in my whole life.

Goku's favorite book is the Diary of Anne Frank.

Arrgh!

Although... I'm not sure I understand what the connection to Austen is.

On the one hand I shudder a bit at the idea of this; on the other, if this attempt at cross marketing gets a few moist bimbos away from shoddy mass-market pandering and into something a little more like Serious Literature, it's hard to think of it as entirely bad.

After about the fifth Entertainment Weekly cover in a week to feature Twilight, I now officially hate Twilight. This just further enforces my feelings.

Literature died when The Stand became a best seller.

@hussein:

I think what Rob is saying is that Bronte's characters who are in need of intense therapy for their insanity are probably a better choice for Twilight's stupid-ass characters than Austen's grounded, feisty, fun characters (e.g. Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy)

OK - even if this travesty of a marketing ploy gets kids to buy the book, the moment they attempt to read Literature (because current culture has turned their brains to mush), they'll chuck it aside for a magazine, or a quick read novel that's based off a movie or television show. Teenagers have a difficult time keeping their focus on things that move at a slower pace, as Bronte's novel does. Literature, which is full of metaphors and opportunities to explore what the text means to the reader is beyond what a teenage mind can grasp because they often lack the critical thinking skills to think for themselves.

Other than that - this is what our society has turned to. Just one marketing tie in after another. Sad.

PLEASE NO MORE TWILIGHT POSTS...

It's better to just ignore it all together.

I agree with the horrible dichotomy expressed in previous posts:

on the one hand "HOLY FUCKING SHIT PANDERING CRAP CROSS OVER MARKETING APPEAL SHIT FUCK KILL IT WITH FIRE DIE IDIOT TWEEN BRAIN DEAD STUPID TEEN GIRL CRAP!!!!!!!"

On the other hand.... well, damn. If this transparent calculated soulless cynical ploy gets a even a handful of semi-brain dead teenage girls to actually read a classic novel like Wuthering Heights... I guess it can't be all bad. And screw any naysayers, Wuthering Heights is great and it is a BRUTAL book. Emotionally heavy and cruel... it's far closer to Mamet's Oleanna or the Louis Malle film Damage than the pop-trash tween girl soap opera of Twilight.

You know in 15 years when all the Twilight hype dies down people are going to laugh at this cover as a piece of kitsch. :)

Despite my overwhelming of sparkly, gaunt "vampires", I don't see how this is any worse marketing than my copy of Moby Dick from 1996 with the plug "Captain Jean-Luc Picard's Favorite Book" on it.

I think they should start doing this to all novels now. I know I would certainly be tempted to pick up Moby Dick because it's "Batman's favorate book."

The Bible. It's Jesus' favorite book!

I am an English Major and I liked Wuthering Heights, but mainly because I read it when I was just getting into anime so I pictured the two families as biker gangs in Neo-Tokyo...

But I digress. It is a difficult piece of literature to slog though, and therefore I don't believe for one microsecond that Bella has ever read that book. You know she just watched the movie--and not even the one with Sir Laurence Olivier. The made-for-TV one.

I guess HarperCollins is desperate to sell novels, but this is low by anyone's standards. I don't remember them putting a boy with glasses on an edition of Oliver Twist and advertising "The tale of a British orphan in the spirit of Harry Potter!"

No. NO. I can't go to the bookstore anymore, in fear that the second I see this sitting on the shelf in front of me, I will become an arsonist.

SERIOUSLY. What are they going to do now, make War of the Worlds Megatron's favorite book? Gah, why can't people like to read just because they like to, and not because some fictional... things appear to enjoy it too? :(

That's really sad. It's a shame that more people don't read - I'm one of the very few people in my own sphere that do - but attempting to entice people with tenuous links to their trash du jour? That's going too far. Would the average Twilight fan even be able to read a real novel?

This is simply insane... it really is, why won't twilight DIE, its a stupid fad that has long outlived it's 15 mins of fame.

The only positive thing that could come out of it is some shy authors getting the nerve to publish their stories bc if this piece of crap sells hell why not yours?

Also, Bella this Heathcliff is romantic??? He's insane! He abuses his beloved's child to get back at the child's father! This has whargarbll all over it!

The worst part is that it isn't even accurate. I have read all four of the Twilight books (yes, I'm a masochist) and Wuthering Heights is not "Bella & Edward's favorite book". It is Bella's favorite, but Edward hates it.

See, in Eclipse, Edward sees that Bella is reading the book (and clearly loves it enough that her copy is falling to pieces as she reads it) and he proceeds to talk about how horrible it is because the characters are unsympathetic, nasty people and it's ridiculous that people think it's a great love story. ("It's a hate story," says he, as if that were profound and not the obvous intent)

Meyer did the exact same thing in New Moon (the second book) with Romeo & Juliet. In both cases, Edward hates on Romeo/Heathcliff for acting like morons and then proceeds to behave exactly the same way later on. And in case her readers were too dumb to "get it" (which is, of course, a very real possibility), Meyer actually has edward come out and say, "Wow, I was acting just like Romeo/Heathcliff! I'll never criticize that character again!"

So, what I'm getting at is that it's not only an offensive defiling of a literary classic to try and capitalize on a current fad, it's not even accurate to the fad it's trying to leech off of! So it's doubly offensive!

You beat me to it, EspanolBot. I don't think I'll be able to listen to Kate for a few days, now. :(

God-damn sparkly vampire bull****...

I hate to admit it but I too have read all 4 Twilight books and I agree with everything The Mud Puppy said. And Morwen09 wasn't to far off with Romeo and Juliet. I suspect that if this stunt boosts Wuthering Heights sales, Romeo and Juliet will follow suit.

Tell me that's just a sticker that they slapped onto the book, that the cover wasn't really designed that way.

...I actually felt a little cold when I read that. No, really.

As overrated as Twilight is, the series has caused a serious increase in young readers which I believe is a good thing. This reissue will without a doubt, cause a younger audience to pick up Wuthering Heights and maybe even down the line, books like it. I'm not the biggest fan of this reissue but I have to be honest and admit that it does have its benefits.

Sadly this same ploy pushed the book's sales well in the UK. But once said brain dead fangirls got the book cracked open however...:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/28/vampire-endorsement-bronte-bestseller

No.

Then again though, I mean, if it can somehow get these mindless people to pick other books than Twilight, perhaps they'll realize just how awful it is.

I'm gonna have to read that book this year for English Lit and I'm already hating it... but this... this is unforgivable.

Goddamn you Twilight. Goddamn you to Hell.

Of course one cannot truly appreciate the work of Emily Bronte until one has read it in the original Klingon...

You know there were three publishing Bronte sisters, right? As such, it's a little hasty to lump them all together and dismiss them with one compact "Bronte" generalization. Is Jane Austen's work really so superior?
Also, I don't care for Wuthering Heights either way, but I am a fan of Jane Eyre.

"Greg said: I remember when the Twilight relationship was on television every week as Buffy and Angel."

Er, except for the part where Angel actually left Buffy for her own good, and she agreed to it, and both of them grew up and moved on because they had a little sense about the whole ridiculous situation.

And may I note that Buffy didn't turn into a paralyzed "shell of a person" who couldn't function when he left? She continued to kick ass.

Y'know, just felt like pointing that out.

Wuthering Heights is morose British crap. I love some morose British crap (Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde) but a lot of it (Dickens, Bronte, et. al.) is just inane British high society pap.

This still sucks, though. It reeks of the mary sue storytelling style. "Hey! Wuthering Heights is my favorite book, so I'll make it the favorite book for both my proxies in MY book! Wheeee!"

Stephanie Meyer is the worst thing to happen to literature since they let Posh Spice write a book.

Flytrap: I know the point you're trying to make, but literature didn't die when The Stand became a bestseller. "Bestseller" stopped being an indication of a significant and well-written book somewhere around the time that cinema and television became the pasttime of choice in modern society. Good, canon-worthy, literature is still alive and kicking, it just isn't usually on the bestseller list (alongside Stephen King et al) and you have to dig a little to find it.

I am so pissed off about this I am tempted to write in all caps. I don't necessarily want to burn every Twilight book (actually, yes I do) and I don't necessarily hate every person who likes Twilight (everyone is entitled to their flaws) but this is SO LOW. Emily Bronte has been read for more than a goddamn century. A CENTURY. Edward, Bella, Twilight? For barely even a decade. And likely it'll be forgotten long before Emily Bronte is.

What are people in the future going to think when they see this? Are they going to shake their heads and assume we were all idiots?

And yet they try to sell Emily Bronte through some cheap little book that has nothing to do with the Wuthering Heights except for a passing reference?

I...just...so...pissed...off...AGH! I can barely type because I want to jump from my window to the home of who ever is responsible for this.

It's a sad day for classical English literature when a book has to be labeled with a current pop-culture reference to get people to read it.
Does Wuthering Heights really need a blurb from "Twilight", especially since "Heights" is required reading for many high school classes? Or is this the publisher's way of "being hip" to today's readers?

What's next, a blurb on "Dracula" that says "Read the inspiration for Edward"? Geez.

I honestly would be just fine with a mass genocide of Twilighters. They're wasting good air that could be used by more deserving people... like murderers and politicians.

Thanks for pointing that out Kryton. It needed to be done.

I can't wait for the new edition of Catcher in the Rye with the "9 out of 10 Serial Killers Love it!" sticker on the cover.

Too far Twilight, too far.

I have to admit, I'm detached enough from English literature that I can't do much more than be amused at this. The prospect of reading characters like Bella and Edward compare themselves to Jane Austen heroes and heroines is just one more reason why I have no burning desire to read these books.

That being said, the misuse of the word "pedophile" peeves me every time. I know Bella was seventeen. Edward might be a really old guy in a young man's sparkly body or whatever, but being attracted to a seventeen-year-old, while potentially creepy, is just not pedophilia. I've seen this happen a lot, and it just infantilizes the female character because she's female, not because, like Bella, she might be whiny and immature.

This beats my previous example of bad literature crossover promotion. In college, I was writing my senior thesis on W.H. Auden, and so I bought the paperback collected edition of his poems, which was not a small book or a cheap book. In fact, IIRC, it was something close to a thousand pages. It had a sticker on it, saying something along the lines of:

"FEATURING the POEM used in the film FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL!"

Did anyone really pick up a thousand-page book of poetry because they like "Funeral Blues" when they heard it in a movie once?

Hey, shut up! Wuthering Heights is my favorite book! Alas, Twatlight is not. Besides, Cathy in Wuthering Heights is just as feisty as any Austen slut.

BRB. LOLING FOREVER.

no one will understand just how deeply this upsets me.

now I have to read Cassidy (you know, The Preacher one-shot) just to get the Bella and Edward taste out of my eyes

Also, lets hear it for Jane Eyre! I love the book, she is fiercely independent and actually desires independence.

I think wuthering heights was basically a mocking of english society at the time, with the class conflicts and crazy relationships. Ie marrying for money, etc.

If it ever came down to a Byronic hero contest, Heathcliff would eat Edward for breakfast!

but what will happen when the Twilight dipshits read Wuthering Heights and discvoer it has an actual plot, complete with genuine characters and believable dialogue?

their minds might explode.

side note: Twilight fanatics hate women.
Female Twilight fanatics are self-hating women.

I... I love Wuthering Heights.

I hate Twilight.

I'm about 98% sure that I no longer have any soul, because this destroyed it.

This is fucking ridiculous, when ever I venture into the local bookshop, I see that the Twilight/tween vampire section is slowly taking over the store, but I guess that's not enough, now Twilight is infecting classic literature. I realize that it could lead to kids discovering the said classic literature, but I just cant stomach it. A line has been crossed.

I bet they'll try to convince Kate Bush to do a new version of "Wuthering Heights" like this...

"Bella...it's me, it's Edward...I've come home!
It's so cold outside your window!"

Here's my version of "Running Up That Hill" that sums up how I feel about Twilight...

If I only could
I'd make a deal with God
to let kill me Stephanie Meyer
I'd run over her on the road
I'd roll her down a hill
I'd drop her off a building!

ZeroCorpse: Dickens is a far cry from "high society pap"!

^^Agreed. Just because you didn't understand it Zero Corpse, doesn't mean it's 'pap'.

Regarding Edward thinking he's acting like Heathcliff. He could NEVER act like Heathcliff!! Heathcliff is so badass, he fucking hung his wife's dog because he hated her.

Also ftr Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights >>> Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre.

And Stephanie Meyer can suck a dick. I'm tired of her bullshit and her stupid fans and sparkly dildos.

I'm now going back to bed so I can have a big angry cry about all of this...

is Twilight a virus? It's already infected movies, lipstick and dlidos, now it's infecting classic literature? Shouldn't somebody do something?!

To whoever asked if Romeo and Juliet was next: Yes. Yes it is. Search it on Amazon. It is there. With a twilight-style cover and a blurb that says "The Original Forbidden Love."

I will vomit now.

To inform everyone asking what the austen reference was about, bella really likes jane austen.
I happen to enjoy the books but hate how rediculous all of this is getting. The movie sucks, and this is just WAYYYYYYY too far.

I love the reader review as quoted in the Guardian - presumably the reader is one of the teen-boppers that bought the book because it's Bella & Edward's fav - is the book "in old english or mordern [sic] understandable english?" "if so i want it but it sounds like it's just the original version with a different cover," I'd like to fantasize about Twilight readers' heads exploding in incomprehension.

Btw, at least both Healthcliff & Cathy are proper sociopaths. The Twilight Duo are just wimps.

i like to know that i hate something for good reason; this is why i set out to read the books. i had a friend who had all four, and was like, "You can HAVE them, they suck."

so, anyway, this is an excerpt i just couldn't get over, in "Eclipse". i choked and wondered if Meyer secretly understands just what she's doing, because the irony-- OH THE IRONY. take note that they're talking about Wuthering Heights.

His face was thoughtful as he considered my words. After a moment he smiled a teasing
smile. "I still think it would be a better story if either of them had one redeeming quality."
"I think that may be the point," I disagreed. "Their love is their only redeeming quality."

i honestly haven't finished this one. not after that line, and not after i heard about the bullshit for content that supposedly is in the fourth one.

but, i mean, i'll be proud to tell my children one day about the fall of literature as we knew it, and how i witnessed it almost first hand. if i'm lucky, maybe this twilight thing will have disappeared into obscurity by the time they're adults?

I majored in English in college. And I frakking HATED Wuthering Heights. However, I utterly, truly *DESPISE* Twilight. As I was working in a bookstore at the time, I read the first book to see what all the fuss was about, and NOTHING can undo the damage! The references to Wuthering Heights in there aren't subtle, clever, or even noteworthy--Bella READS A PASSAGE OF THE BOOK TO HERSELF AND MUSES HOW MUCH EDWARD IS LIKE HEATHCLIFF!!!

Also, as disturbed I am at how ludicrously bad the writing is, I'm more disturbed at the young girls around the world who uphold Edward as the pinnacle of love and romance because it means we're going to see a generation of battered women on our hands. Girls, it's NOT OKAY when a guy stalks you, watches you while you sleep through your bedroom window, OR continues having sex with you when you've passed out! THAT'S BAD!!!

And don't get me started on Bella as a "heroine"--she's one of the most pathetic females I've ever seen in writing...

And I think the connection to Austen is that her literature is far too good and filled with strong female heroines for the likes of Bella and Edward to be interested in it.

C Field I resent the fact that you think current culture has fried our brains (yes I am a teenager!)let me inform you that eventhough I have read twilight numeruos times my favorite books still are The Phatom of the Opera and The Count of Montecristo (let me clarify that I did not read the abridged edition.) Moreover my friends enjoy Jane Austen and still are twilight fans. Next time don't go assuming things or do I need to remind what assume stands for?

Scortia I resent the fact you "would be fine with a mass genocide of twilighters". Genocides are a very delicate matter that you don't have the sensibility to treat it as such proves that you are much more of an airhead that any of those girls and moms and grandmothers that like twilight. Millions of people have died in these tragic occurences and yet you treat it as if it were a humorous joke. next time you have the urge to say something so irrational I would advice you to keep your mouth shut.

aznsong50 let me inform you that I read twilight and I love edward and bella's relationship. However I don't think it could work for me but hey to each their own right. I can
assure you that I will not end up a battered woman neither will Viri or Marlene or Megan or Valeria but then you know the future right because that is the only way that you can make such claims.

Lastly I want to let everyone know that while twilight fans enjoy the books we admit that they are not literature. We do have brains and we do think. gasp! yes I am not pulling your leg so now stop hating and go do something productive.
Better yet write your own damn books because in my experience the people that critize you the most are the ones that can't do any better.

One more thing xvbones I beat up my cousin's boyfriend with a crowbar because the bastard broke her arm and two ribs and I'm a feminist does that make me a self- hater woman I don't think so don't talk if you don't know ok.