Yes, that's it. Apparently the love story part had no real effect on me....I completely forgot about that.
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...Something Wicked This Way Comes....
Read This Perfect Day by Ira.
That sounds fascinating, I may try and find that too. Thanks for the ID @goathunterI once read a book about Jack the Ripper travelling through HG Wells Time machine to modern day and Wells following him. All I remember was because by the 70's (which was modern day when the book was written) the time machine had been moved to the US that's where they ended up. Probably New York. And Wells ended up in what he assumed a restaurant, standing behind others, and describing everything as a scientist who has never seen this stuff, and after listening to others order, he asked for "a quarter pounder with" but has NO idea what it is....even after he gets it. Quarter pound of what? Some kind of meat substitute is what he finally decides. Anyway, it was a good book. Not a classic, but a cross between a few classics.
Me too. A friend of mine gave me a paperback of four of Conan Doyle's Holmes "adventures" after I'd demonstrated to her some observation/deduction skills (which I was unaware I had). I think the volume included A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Red-Headed League. I read that book, then bought all the Holmes stories and all I did for a long time was read them. I found myself thinking like Sherlock Holmes, observing people, trying to figure things out about them. It was something to do. A man's got to have his hobbies....I also loved Arthur Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The Sherlock Holmes character is one of my favorite characters. It feels like I'm playing a game reading it as I try to figure out the mysteries and guess how Holmes figures things out, though I am always several steps behind like Watson.
Me too. A friend of mine gave me a paperback of four of Conan Doyle's Holmes "adventures" after I'd demonstrated to her some observation/deduction skills (which I was unaware I had). I think the volume included A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Red-Headed League. I read that book, then bought all the Holmes stories and all I did for a long time was read them. I found myself thinking like Sherlock Holmes, observing people, trying to figure things out about them. It was something to do. A man's got to have his hobbies.
I have read Frankenstein which I thought was fabulous. I find the classics hard to read, to be honest, as I find them .......boring!! Yes, I know, I am a heathen!!
I'm at a loss why Wuthering Heights is looked at as a romantic book. Heathcliff is a totally abusive jerk.I have also read Shakespeare - Midsummer night's dream and Hamlet - comedy and tragedy. Perhaps I am not such a heathen after all. Tried to read Wuthering heights more than once and can't get past page 100.
I know what you mean. I think this is one of the reasons why I have a problem reading it.I'm at a loss why Wuthering Heights is looked at as a romantic book. Heathcliff is a totally abusive jerk.
This book deserves its own genre. Heathcliff is an ass and the rest of his family aren't much better. But it is a compelling story nonetheless.I'm at a loss why Wuthering Heights is looked at as a romantic book. Heathcliff is a totally abusive jerk.