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Ophelia - I grew up on those moors. Not the Yorkshire Moors (although I have visited Haworth).

I grew up on the Lancashire Moors - in a small cottage - built in 1805 - (it said that in stone above the door!!). The Lancashire Moors and the Moors around Haworth are very similar.

It is very wild and beautiful - but the important thing, I think, is that those of us who grew up there in various isolated cottages - grew up with a wild and independent way of thinking. We relied on our neighbours - we learned to trust one another. Do you know what I mean when I tell you, when it snows up there - it snows sideways.

I am working on my laptop now and haven't got access to all my pictures, but tomorrow, when I am on the main pc., I will send you some pictures of Pickup Bank - an area on the moors between Blackburn/Darwen/Haslingden if you want to look on Google Earth.

Then you will see me there - because we went to visit there last year - and it hasn't changed a bit, since I was a little girl and lived there from the age of six until I was seventeen.

Ooooh but I think Wuthering Heights is a love story.....

Even the married ones - you'd be amazed what we know about romance.

As much as you guys rave on about this book, maybe I will give it another shot soon :]

Penelope wrote:Carly - A lot of people in UK voted Wuthering Heights their favourite novel of all time.

I think it is a silly book. BUT - I do wonder how a very small spinster lady who died at a tragically young age - knew about all that passion!!

Kathy and Heathcliffe - I wanted it to be true love, once.....but now I am glad that I know it is just the wonderful imagination of a very gifted young woman.

Seductive idea, but dangerous.

Hi Penelope . . . I see you're a couple years younger than me.

I'm just curious which post of mine you were responding to here.

I liked Wuthering Heights - liked the movie too - a good old fashioned romance.

Did I say I didn't like it? If so, I must have had it mixed up with something else.

Well, at our age, we've got a lot of books under our belts.

This one here? I don't remember doing it in school - not even in the adult education credits I took in the 90's.

I think I mentioned that we had to do Lord of the Flies when I did a lit/comp course at Burnhamthorpe Collegiate - grade 10/11 credits.

I had my high school credits, but got most of it by going to a business college for 9 months.

Enjoyed school a lot more, as an adult, than I did as a teen.

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I don't really care for this book so far - very wordy - unnecessarily wordy, IMO, but a lot of old books are like that.

Doesn't matter what the teachers tell us is good literature, if I don't like a book, I don't want to read it.

I'm going to read this one to the last chapter and if I'm still not interested, I'm closing it.

I find it kinda' depressing - maybe it's because I get particularly ticked off at the way our white ancestors just moved on into places and 'colonized'.

I won't enlarge upon that thought, for fear I'll be on my soapbox, boring everybody with my political/social views.

Ha ha!

Well, fellow 60's swinger - It sounds as if you have a similar sort of education as myself. Mostly self induced I'd say.

Yes I have read a lot of books - but I know from going to Evening literature classes - that I haven't always - got their message.

I was amazed at Virginia Wolf - no story - about relationships!!!

Lord of the Flies - not meant to be entertaining - meant to be disturbing.

A Clockwork Orange disturbed me most of all - but I loved it.

Some books you read....and you're never quite the same again....don't you think? HD is one of those.

I've realized something through this forum... I must enjoy dark and disturbing works. I liked both Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies

I didn't think I was going to like it, but once I got rolling into it, I found it intriguing.

(I did NOT like Lord of the Flies)

Just to let you all know...I just cannot get into the book . Conrad's prose is waaay to annoying for me to make it more than 20 pages. It is kinda tedious...at least right now.

I might still read this in the future...but I just cannot right now...especially while trying to plow through Pinker.

Hello Mr P,

I do sympathize, I really had a hard time reading Heart of Darkness.


Not to worry though, help is at hand: Carly mentioned that she had listened"" to a recording of the book on the Gutenberg project site.
I tried, and I really liked it and wished I had known earlier.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9343

Ophelia wrote:Hello Mr P,

I do sympathize, I really had a hard time reading Heart of Darkness.


Not to worry though, help is at hand: Carly mentioned that she had listened"" to a recording of the book on the Gutenberg project site.
I tried, and I really liked it and wished I had known earlier.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/9343

Thanks for the link. I will give it a go...but I am an avid avoider of audio books. Just do not like them.