Bah! Good stuff. And I love Borges too mano. 👆
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Not sure what my 5 are.
- Lord of the Rings series
- Hero With a Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)
- A collection of Jorge Luis Borges complete short stories
- Drizzt Do'Urden fantasy series (R.A. Salvatore)
- Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" comic series
- V For Vendetta
- The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
- Various Shakespeare (Winter's Tale, Hamlet, etc.)
...hmm. That's no particular order. But I like making lists...so I'm sure I'll find out sometime soon.
🙂
#1. You Suck: A Love Story
#2. Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul
#3. Marley and Me
#4. Memoirs of A Geisha
#5. Outlander
I have a hard time finishing books once I've started. I'll read half-way through a book and usually get another book to read at the same time so I start on that one cause the one I was reading doesn't really interest me.
Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Gothic genre madness.
As far as I know, none of these books actually belongs to the gothic genre. North & South highlights the issues of the working class plus a little romance of course. It's not actually classified as a gothic novel. Jane Eyre could be considered as either a romantic novel - or a victorian novel. I myself would not describe it as a gothic novel, even though the novel contains both horror and romance.(..) The Remains of the Day is certainly not a gothic novel, nor is Pride & Prejudice. Bleak House could be, it did influence Dickens as a writer, but at the same time I won't describe it as a classic gothic novel.
Regards, Yvonne