View Poll Results: Please vote for the Gothic book you would like to read in August.

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  • The Woman in White

    2 8.70%
  • Mad Shadows

    2 8.70%
  • Belinda

    0 0%
  • The House of the Seven Gables

    1 4.35%
  • Bellefleur

    0 0%
  • The Woman in Black

    1 4.35%
  • Rebecca

    2 8.70%
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    6 26.09%
  • The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket

    8 34.78%
  • Beloved

    1 4.35%
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Thread: August / Gothic Novel Poll

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jozanny View Post
    Papa, this certainly brings back memories! I read it my freshman year, and it is one of only two Oates novels I actually like. I did a cursory search for my Wilkie and can't find him (I must roll with the souls of the damned, although I am sure the book was packed and must be around)--but I will definitely join in for Bellefleur!

    Great pick
    alll riiighhttt. I'm putting this on my to read list whether it wins or not (none of mine have ever won so I'm not holding my breath this time - not that I'm bitter or anything)
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    Notice from the Alzheimer's watch edition....

    It kept bugging me all week, since I knew the packing volunteer emptied my hall closet in the packing boxes during my relocation, but I was getting worried. Joey and not knocked Wilkie to the carpet behind the sliding doors, I did not see him on the temporarily overstocked lamp table (I usually keep my writing files there); I did not think he was in the big packing bin on the floor where I still fervently hope my relatively new Allen Tate collection is; he definitely wasn't in either of my bona fide book cases, and I know what spines are what in my milk crates, and so where in the hell is this book?

    On the temporarily overstocked lamp table, it turns out, in front of the lamp, under Richard Wright.

    I was nearly ready to cry, and lightened up when I realized it was all Scheherazade's fault!

    The Woman in White is now staying right here on the computer desk, whether it wins or not, and if it does, I'll start it at the end of July. I keep thinking this post would make an excellent journal entry, oui?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jozanny View Post
    I was nearly ready to cry, and lightened up when I realized it was all Scheherazade's fault!
    Click on my signature, why doncha?
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    I nominate Rebecca by Daphne Maurier. However if lots of people dislike that book I would gladly retract it, seeing as I'm not the greatest living expert when it comes to Gothic Fiction.

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    Nominations so far:

    1. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

    2. Mad Shadows by Marie-Claire Blais

    3. Belinda by Maria Edgeworth

    4. The House of the Seven Gables by Hawthorne

    5. Bellefleur by Joyce Carol Oates

    6. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill

    7. Rebecca by Daphne Maurier
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    Sche, I just saw that in 2005 we already had Rebecca for Summer Reading...so it's going to have to come off the list.

    Oh well...

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    Quote Originally Posted by TurquoiseSunset View Post
    Sche, I just saw that in 2005 we already had Rebecca for Summer Reading...so it's going to have to come off the list.

    Oh well...
    That is fine. We do not read the same book in two consecutive years but otherwise the books can be re-nominated/read.

    We cannot leave books out of our reading lists forever as it wouldn't be fair on our new members.
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    Oh, that's fine then

    It makes sense too...I wasn't a member in 2005.

    Thanks!

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    1 or 6...The woman in White...or Black.
    (haha...can't call me racist can you?) :P
    O to be alive in such an age!
    When miracle are everywhere,
    And every inch of common air,
    Throbs a tremendous prophecy,
    Of greater marvels...yet to be.

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    The Hunchback of Notre dame - Victor Hugo

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    Oooh I like these nominations so far! I'll have to think of one as time goes by. I like the idea of Rebecca, WIW and Hunchback...hmmm...this is gonna be good!
    "So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."


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    The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1839) by Edgar Allan Poe.
    The List wouldn't be complete without Poe's...

    "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."

    -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scheherazade View Post
    7. Rebecca by Daphne Maurier
    Oops! I just saw that I didn't give the name right...
    It's actually Daphne du Maurier.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Thespian1975 View Post
    The Hunchback of Notre dame - Victor Hugo
    Second that, though The Castle of Otranto is pretty good as well...

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    So, most of us want to spend the month of August reading The Hunchback?

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