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I think you have to separate the story from the style. We all know Charles Dickens wrote fab stories, but have you ever tried reading them?! Just the way they wrote makes them really hard to read confortably. See if you can find an abbreviated version!!
Lord of the Rings is also virtually unreadable. but the prize for me goes to Lorna Doone, in which only 3 things happen in about a million pages (yes, a slight exaggeration!).
Fave book of all time for me is Jane Eyre though, having said all that.
Jan

One of few books I have ever read, and loved it.

I doubt she met many people. Very iolated life on edge of the Moors. Sisters got out a bit more, I think. Emily had a brooding and alcoholic brother.

Came across her father researching the family of Rev John Eyton, Rector of Wellington (1772-1823) in Shropshire. His curate about 1808 was a young unmarried Irishman - Rev Patrick Brunty. Same one who changed his surname to Bronte and became Vicar of Haworth :-D ;-)

It was the brother you had to watch. Very odd, very odd indeed.

Done the book for 'A' levels about 10 years ago.

Julia oin Derbyshire

BC but is the filium as the book intended ?

I have struggled to be honest Rose, they do on abit dont they, but as I said thats all they had was conversation in them days...lolol but then there are large gaps in years and things that just go unexplained :-|

You should have skipped the book, Hayley, and watched the fillum with Laurence Oliver wailing 'Cathyyyyyyyy....Cathyyyyyyyy'.....over the misty, dank moors...*sighs.... <3 (Merle Oberon was Cathy as I remember),,,,

It is a book I have never managed to read all the way through, Hayley, just couldn't get on with it.

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Just about finished reading this and I cant understand why people rave over it, ok so it was written by hand by candle light with a ink and a feather , and once you stop that silly song going round in your head, you can concertrate, but it makes you think more what was going on in the authors life more at the time then the story its self. I thought it was a love story, nope got that wrong its more about spite jealousy possibly people suffering from biploar episodes then a love story. What sort people did Miss Bronte meet in her life to come up with Heathcliffe and such misery :-(