Just finished reading Wuthering Heights.
Jane Eyre is one of my favorite novels, so I was excited to read something by another one of the Bronte sisters. That may have been foolish, as even Charlotte Bronte infamously hated her sister Emily's novel, writing in its foreword after Emily was dead "I scarcely believe it should have been written." And she may have been right.
It wasn't poorly written like Pride & Prejudice or boring like Moby Dick, but I would have to say that Wuthering Heights was the worst classic novel I've read yet because it simply amounts to nothing at all. It has no message, doesn't try to convey anything, and bears no relevance on my life (and plenty of books of the same age do, so that is no excuse). Wuthering Heights is a whole bunch of drama. Petty drama that you would see on a midday soap opera. Featuring one of the most unlikable characters ever. Heathcliffe is supposed to be sympathized with, and maybe you can at first, but the righteous part of his revenge happens largely off-screen. Then he just continues to be a colossal douche for the rest of his life. There are few times when I feel that the book wouldn't have been bettered if some character didn't just murder Heathcliffe, ending things immediately. Instead he dies literally because revenge becomes boring. Oh woe the fuck is you.
If anyone wants to experience a multi-generational story where a street urchin is abruptly adopted into a high-class English family only to angrily try to take control of the estate from its rightful owners, they are better off with the superior adaptation, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. Sure, there's a few important differences, but Dio is so Heathcliffe that it's hard to imagine it wasn't a direct source of inspiration. And frankly, this character works much better as an unsympathetic villainous vampire who can stop time and eventually gets punched to death (I assume, not done with Stardust Crusaders).
Pride and Prejudice seems like a poorly written book until you have read it more than once. It is much more difficult to comprehend on your first read than other novels because it is not exactly as easy to distinguish what is actually going on as easily as Jane Eyre. It isn't as difficult a read as A Tale of Two Cities, you just will not understand the novel as easily when you first read it.