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10-31-2005, 06:13 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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Good book reccomendations
I hope im not breaking any rules but im opening a thread soo that experienced readers can post some of their favourite gothic books that they think should be read
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10-31-2005, 06:20 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: a lonely place...
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( > < ) ooooooooooo.................soooooooooooooo cute!!!!!!!!
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10-31-2005, 11:34 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
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Umm... what exactly do you mean by "gothic books"?
"What is Goth?" by Voltaire was amusing.
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11-01-2005, 12:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Midwest
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For the kids..... read "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" before the movie comes out in December. Well worth the read.
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12-02-2005, 03:31 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Nowhere, New Mexico
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The Dark Tower
I don't know how Gothic you wanna go, But I like Alot of Stephen King, I'm in the middle of the 2nd book in the Dark Tower series. It's great so far. I heard it ends really horrible though
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12-03-2005, 11:53 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Sedona, AZ
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Read T.S. Elliot's The Waste Land.
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12-03-2005, 12:06 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Kushiel's Dart, Kushiel's Chosen, and Kushiel's Avatar by Jacqueline Carey are good books, and a fourth in the series, Kushiel's Scion is due out in June of 2006.
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
pssst, Morrigan, tokidoki shashin wa ii...
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12-03-2005, 12:15 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Louisiana
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Leviathan, The Art of War, Logic...
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*Insert witty quote about something goth here*
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12-03-2005, 09:00 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by Santarea
It's not goth, but it is good: The House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski.
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I read that, fun stuff...I always loved the author's last name, it's a fun name to say....
I'm also going to recommend Homebody by Orson Scott Card, also The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (the movie The Haunting was based off it) ....or really anything by Shirley Jackson.
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
pssst, Morrigan, tokidoki shashin wa ii...
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12-04-2005, 02:33 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
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Originally Posted by Santarea
PLEASE skip watching the "Haunting" in favor if "the Haunting of Hill House"- the original film adaptation.
But, yeah, Poe's CD "Haunted" is adapted from "the House of Leaves"... it was written by her brother...
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I meant to mention in my post that the original adaptation was better, I'm glad you did!
And "Haunted" is a yummy CD
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"The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything." -Friedrich Nietzsche
pssst, Morrigan, tokidoki shashin wa ii...
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12-04-2005, 07:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: milwaukee, wisconsin
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People here might like "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.
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12-04-2005, 07:35 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Maple Ridge, BC, Canada
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If anyone wants to start reading science fiction, here are three books that will definitely get you into it:
Homegoing by Frederik Pohl
Destiny's Road by Larry Niven
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
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12-05-2005, 06:45 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Louisiana
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Oh come on guys, we all need to pick up a copy of "From Pieces to Weight"...=)
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12-05-2005, 07:28 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Lowell, Michigan
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"Mistaken Demon of heaven, thy joys are tears" Thats william blake. hes brilliant, and he makes you think. well, he makes me think at least
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12-05-2005, 07:43 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: middle of nowhere - Wisconsin
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Okay...this guy may not be gothic, but I guarantee he's funny! I've read 4 of his books now and they're superawesomepoopshitfantastico! Christopher Moore....Practical Demonkeeping is a funny one with a demon in it as a main character and Blood Sucking Fiends is a vampire novel. Go for it. He rocks. Just because you're Gothic, that doesn't mean you can't laugh once in a while!
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12-13-2005, 05:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Arkansas
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Anything by Nancy Collins! My favorite is Midnight Blue:The Sonya Blue collection which collects most of her vampire fiction.
The only book that Ive read that scared the living h*ll out of me was The Haunted by Joseph Curran. I think.
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12-13-2005, 06:00 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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I liked the house of seven gables by hawthorne
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12-13-2005, 11:55 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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This one is hard for me to get through. I like a lot of 'slower' writing styles but I can't get through it. Is there any hope after the second chapter?
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12-14-2005, 12:12 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: milwaukee, wisconsin
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Some literature that people may enjoy (no labels like "gothic", look them up on Amazon to learn more, I suppose)
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart
It creates a complex and sympathetic portrait of a traditional village culture in Africa. Achebe is trying not only to inform the outside world about Ibo cultural traditions, but to remind his own people of their past and to assert that it had contained much of value. All too many Africans in his time were ready to accept the European judgment that Africa had no history or culture worth considering.
Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal
This is a short essay, but it is brilliant dark satire. In it, he recommends that Irish poverty can solved by the breeding up their infants as food for the rich.
Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
It is an amazing existentialist work telling the story of the Karamazov brothers--each with his own distinct personality and desires. The general plot of the story revolves around the murder of their father, and their roles in it all. It has been called "a grand epic which attempts to venture into mankind's darkest heart, and grasp the true meaning of existence". I really recommend it.
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12-16-2005, 08:38 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Blountsville, AL
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I recommend Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for its pyschological view of alternate reality and the human psyche. Plus, it is fun!
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12-16-2005, 11:39 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Blyth, UK - its a weird place but I was born and bred here so I've got to love it.
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I adore Celia Rees's "Witch Child". It helps understand what life was like for the poorer era during the Salem Witch trials and all that stuff.
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12-16-2005, 12:09 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: England
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I wouldnt exactly say these are gothic books, but they are good reads, I like Runaway by Evelyn Lau, its her diary of how she lived on the streets and that, and then Go ask Alice, sort of the same content, the exorcist is a good book, and silence of the lambs, The goth bible by nancy kilpatrick is amazing! Lols
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12-16-2005, 12:11 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: England
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Originally Posted by Bride_Of_Satan
I adore Celia Rees's "Witch Child". It helps understand what life was like for the poorer era during the Salem Witch trials and all that stuff.
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I like that one as well, have you read the follow up to that, i cant remeber what its called now
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12-16-2005, 12:13 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: England
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Originally Posted by Xnguela
Go Ask Alice...? Like, the kid books my 13 year old sister's reading..?
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i dont think so....its a girl whos on drugs and then she comes clean and dies, hardly anyone has heard of it
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12-16-2005, 12:15 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: England
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yeah i didnt think so..its not as sort of harsh as runaway because in go ask alice she still lives at home
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