wuthering heights - it's...

LOL as Cliff Richard as Heathcliff! Maybe he did play him, I have a glimmer of this somewhere in my memory as well.

And everytime I imagine Heathcliffe nowadays, he looks like Cliff Richard. Did he play him or something, or was that a bad dream?

i had no sympathy for either Katherine or Heathcliff.

they were both vapid, not very nice people and it's never pleasant to read about such characters.

Think I am not girly enough for Wuthering Heights Mrs R

true raw passion i loved it but also devoured hardy with the same gusto

ranting housewife- I thought it was you who started this thread at first!
Come on- the passion and romance of it all! Dashing you head on the wall in frustration and running out onto the moors crying' Cathy! Cathy!' in a desperate
manner- Go on, try it now!!!! You need rain, wind and candles flickering...
Seriously- I agree with those who say it MUST be read aloud

truly wonderful

you should be on the Nick Hornby thread MAS

I hate it too MAS, you are not alone!

I loveit, I read it every few years.

It's been a few years since I read it but I think Wuthering Heights is wonderful! The high romance, the intensity, the comic relief in Joseph ( is it Joseph?), the servant.
My best friend and I read this to each other whilst we were travelling- we had met a man each and were madly in love for the first time and I have loved it ever since.

Wuthering Heights isn't dreary. OK, it rains a bit and is basically about an entire family being psychologically tortured because of a slight misdemeanour years ago: Yorkshire is still like that! Try Anne Bronte's "Wildfell Hall" it is by far the best book written by the Bronte sisters and has alot of the same themes as Wuthering Heights (but isn't set in Yorkshire).

maybe you should re-read the rainbow then
as book club exercise of re-reading book you loved when younger...would be interesting!

i actually love d h lawerence...very much
and thomas hardy

all the relentless tv period dramas put me orf reading jane eyre n all that...they go overkill on it..
holds no interest you are not alone loveangel!

I wonder why that is LoveAngel. I love Lizzy from P&P, she is JA's fave heroine too, and based somewhat on herself, I believe. I love that Jane Austen never married, but supported herself with her writing, I love that idea of a self sufficient woman in a time when women were so dependent on getting a husband
It is something that I loved watching Miss Potter, when she gets sick of her mother, but doesn't wan t to marry, so she goes to the bank to see if her books have earnt her enough money to buy her own house, and the banker says, Umm, you have enough money to buy about 7 Estates!!!

YEEEEEEEEEEES...........>>

Ooh - really disliked WH - wanted all the characters to fall into a big hole and stay there, I'm afraid. Read it as a teenager. I came to Austen only recently, and really love her, though.

If you have to read it and dont want to get it on cd, and listen to it in the car. I find a book on tape makes driving muchmore interesting, and you are also doing something else so you are not feeling like you are wasting your time.

See, that's the thing. I know I really should like Jane Austen. I like her themes. I think she's a very, very clever woman. But I just find her novels go on and on and bloody on, and I always feel very removed from her characters. i never connect with them in the way I feel I am supposed to, and that other readers obviously do.

never read jane eyre
or cold comfort farm either

if you cant go back and click with it mas, i'd leave it...
not enough to time to read if it doesnt do something for me..

I hated Josephs dialect too. I just skipped through his bits.

I thought it was very gloomy. Absolutly everybody is miserable all the time. I do find Jane Eyre very erotic.

Right, I must go and do things now. I shall be starey-eyed all day. This thread has cheered me up enormously.

MAS - do it OUT LOUD, gawn, and the dialect bits. And report back. Betcha you'll get into it.

Jane Austen is amazing. There is so much behind her writing, and the more I read them the more I see in them. I loved the film Becoming jane and can imagine that she was perhaps like that in rl, dashing off to write down something someone said and using it later in a book. In that film you see a lot of the characters from her books int he people around her. Obviously this is largely speculation, apart from what they got from her letters and such, but I love her quote about "The more I see of the world the more I am dissatisfied with it, and I think this is what she herself felt. I also think I relate to her books more now, having lived in the real world, rather than the safe, teenage world.

I agree about WH, it is a wonderfully romantic book, with the notion of soulmates, and undying love, but as Cathy knew, you can't live on love alone, so she chose the rich guy, and then she learnt that you can't deny your love and suffered for it, sorry to ruin it, but you don't want to read it and I'm hoping you wont care, or that iot might whet your appetite to know more
I think this is why it appeals to teenagers who haven't really experienced real life love and relationships and who still think that it is all sweeping of your feet, longing glances and wonderful, when in fact they discover the reality and have lived longer in the real world, you are perhaps less likely to enjoy this book if you are already a littel jaded.

i read villette recently - lovely, alot less draughts. i found the xenephobia a bit hard to stomach though.