General Chat

Looks like Pricklys as Peed as the proverbial Newt :-D Catawalling all over the post. :-D :-D By the way, the book/s discussed are only after all Fantasy and the result of a vivid imagination.they had nothing else to do then,you should try reading some of the Russian Books.they,re really mixed up. :-S :-D

Hayley

I'm off to get the Kindle although I did have trouble getting around the free books site last week. See how I get on this time.

Vera

Kate Bush is lush and one of the best :-DX

I meant to say I hate you PH now she once again put that bloody song in my head I dont really hate you PH sorry if I offended you or it sounded too strong ,,xx <3


vera its a free book I got for me kindle in fact I got about 3 , started on a bit of pink and fluffy :-D

I hate PH too :-P :-P No, not really

Those Kate Bush words sound silly. They had good songs in my day:

Hot diggety, dog ziggety Boom what you do to me

Does your chewing gum lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight.

Aaah memories :-D :-D

It sounds quite good to me. All that dark and brooding cant be too bad. I will download it to my Kindle if its cheap.

I vaguely remember Jane Eyre.

Vera

"I hate PH"

Wow!!

Thank you John I just wasnt going to let it me defeat me, .......
actually the song although I mocked it at the time 1978 it was the most uncool song ever, but by god what a talent katie Bush has, sums the book up in 3 verses ....I always thought it was Heathcliffe lost on the moors and she was mourning him begging him to come home but actually she is haunting him begging him to go with her which explains his bitterness he is a tortured soul , when he knows he is dying he knows he will be with her and finally find peace.

All together now - Wooo-ooooooo

Men, squeeze them - you'll get up there :-D :-D

Wend...........i sang (or maybe screamed ) that in my bestest Kate Bush voice.

I always receive an encore when i sing it at the karaoke.



:-D

*Whispers* - has Prickles been at the cooking sherry again? :-0

Hayley, it's me, Holly, I've come home
I'm so cold, let me in in-a-your-window


Ooh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
Ooh let me have it, let me grab your soul away
You know it's me, Holly.

:-D

I'm with Sheila, on Jane Eyre, and Mr Rochester :-D

But...Brummie Jan! how can you say LOTR is virtually unreadable :-0 I came to it later than some, but if I had to have one book ( well trilogy) and one only for the rest of my days it would be that :-D Horses for courses and all that ;-)

All the other men in the book are attentive to their spouse but Heathcliffe I thought at first , this is the authors fantasty of a man, dark brooding full of mystery but by the end no one aprt from Nelly mourned his dealth and that was only out of duty, I didnt like him.

Used to love reading these classics as a boy (Dickens, Joseph Conrad, and the Brontes). But have not picked up a book and read it for many years.

I think there was much more time to read years ago. Now with telly, computers, phones, it is more difficult to make space.

Hayley, I am impressed that you have hacked througth the book. And precised it well. That shows a lot of mental discipline - particularly if not really enjoying it :-D :-D

I was watching Bangor beat Aberystwyth 7-1 at soccer on Welsh TV, probably when you started Chapter 17. Don't feel quite so righteous :-D

It's one of my favourite books. I fell in love with Heathcliff at an early age, so brooding, dark and intense.

The reason classics are classics is because so many people enjoy them - but not everyone is going to. I can't stand anything written by George Eliot but a lot of people really enjoy her stuff. I love Hardy and most of Dickens, although the latter does go on a bit.

Usually the so-called classics are basically good stories, told well.

Gwynne

Its the one and only classic Ann I have ever read and I am not eagar to read any more, Sheila I dont know about growing up they needed to stand up to him what a bully, I think the author was trying to maintain that Heathcliffe first pined and then was haunted by the dealth of Catherine, he was nasty and spiteful to everyone else around him, and even forced his dying son to marry Catherine (Catherines daugher) and they were cousins, whilst her father lie dying he kidnapped her and stole her wealth. The whole story is narrated by the housekeeper Nelly Dean to a new tennent Mr Lockwood.

Thanks Hayley, never managed to read it and won't have to bother now I have your excellent précis. I actually feel there is a lot of 'snob' value put on the reading of many of the classics. As if you haven.t read them you can't be intelligent. We had to read Thomas Hardy for Greaders many years back. I hated his style of writing.

I don't like Wuthering Heights, I just wanted to slap them all and tell them to grow up :-D. I do love Jane Eyre, though, Mr Rochester is much more likeable (in an odd sort of way).

There isnt much to the story really is there Jan, set in 1800 Normal family father mother son and daughter, father returns from a business trip with small urchin, they name him heathcliff the father dotes on him, the son and daughter dont like him for a while then him and the daughter become playmates which as they grow to teenagers grows a bit deeper but no one really knows how deep, Catherine is a spolit brat and hurts Heathcliffs feelings he disappears for a couple of years with new found wealth which is never explained, the brother has disppeared and returns with a wife who has a baby son and the wife dies in child birth. Catherine marries a neighbour whom Heathcliffe dispises and the him heathcliffe, so out of spite he marries the sister, he has already moved in with Catherines brother whom now is a gambling alcholic and doesnt care for the baby son, who grows up almost wild, Catherine dies in child birth and mad as box of frogs at the same time, Heahtcliffes wife now dispises him and does a runner, who is also with child, 12 years later she dies the child moves back with him, and guess what Heathdliffe hates him as well.