So I got sucked into TCM last night and watched Wuthering Heights (1939) and Jane Eyre (1943) because I recognized almost all the actors from Errol Flynn movies. :) But this is the sort of situation where I would be motivated to read a book based on having watched the movie. I had absolutely no interest in reading either of these books (they seemed all Charles Dickens-y depressing), but now I think I could get into Jane Eyre. Wuthering Heights is too tragic for me to want to read it and I wasn't real sympathetic to Cathy - she's the one who messed everything up anyway. I wiki'd both books, of course, and found out that the Jane Eyre movie skipped a section of the book, but it still ended the same, so I won't be too surprised reading it. As I was googling stuff, I found an interesting article entitled, "Jane Eyre movie adaptations: Why are there so many and which one is the best?"
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2011/03/up_in_the_eyre.html
On a literary note, I'm glad I finally know who Heathcliff and Rochester are. They're alluded to a lot in random places and I never really understood the reference until now!
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