Please link your reviews for your Gothic or Horror Classic here. This is only for the Gothic or Horror Classic category. If you do not have a blog, or somewhere public on the internet where you post book reviews, please write your mini-review/thoughts in the comments section. If you like, you can include the name of your blog and/or the title of the book in your link, like this: "Karen K. @ Books and Chocolate (Rebecca)."
Finished my Gothic classic a little under a week ago! So good!
ReplyDeleteI read Dracula and enjoyed it way more than I thought I would have!
ReplyDeleteStoker's short stories were a lot better than I expected. Please see:
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I had expected Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to be scary, but it wasn't. It also wasn't anything like any representative I have ever seen on TV. https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/31652839-marilyn?shelf=books-and-chocolates-challenge-2017
ReplyDeleteI also read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and was surprised at how different it is from the pop culture version. I really enjoyed it!
DeleteI read Wuthering Heights and enjoyed it more than I thought I would have.
ReplyDeleteWell, my link is added - twice, sorry! Wanted to correct my spelling mistake and try again to get the e-with-umlaut character to work with no luck on the latter. Can the first, pitiful attempt be removed? Thanks in any case!
ReplyDeleteDone! And I'm impressed by your attempt to add the umlaut. I've never managed to add any accent marks and I really should learn since I'm doing the European Reading Challenge.
DeleteI read and I liked some parts of the book, but the other parts were somewhat slow. Van Helsing talks too much ;)
ReplyDeleteI slogged through Rebecca (sorry, I just could not get into the narrator - I found her tedious and melodramatic).
ReplyDeleteI finished reading my selection for this category (The Picture of Dorian Gray) last month, but only just now got around to blogging about it! Oops.
ReplyDeleteI've just left a link to The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins. It blew me away. My favourite of the challenge so far.
ReplyDeleteThousand and One Ghosts was the first Dumas I've read since I was a kid. I'd forgotten what vivid details he used. Recommended.
ReplyDeleteI reviewed two books because the first one (The Monk) I didn't really like but I am not sure if my second read (No Name) counts as "Gothic".
ReplyDeleteJust finished "The Monk" and that means I've completed all 12 categories!
ReplyDeleteJust read The Haunting of Hill House and really loved it. It wasn't really on my to-read list before this challenge, so thank you.
ReplyDeleteSorry! Somehow I posted my Classic in Translation The Wreath here as well as in the correct place. Please remove it.
ReplyDeleteI had never managed to finish a Gothic novel before but Uncle Silas really drew me in.I read it while traveling and there were definitely moments when I was glad I was not on my own. Once again Books and Chocolate took me into a wider world of fiction.Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI was stamping my feet and groaning at about the 3/4's mark. But I finished it, never felt the same since about 3-volume novels of that era. My review:
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My second reading of The Picture of Dorian Gray...even better the second time around.
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I read Rebecca and glad that I somehow managed to not spoil the ending for myself, even though the book is 79 years old. :)
ReplyDeleteThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - A great deal is implied rather than explicitly stated about Dorian's lifestyle. No question that he is a narcissist and likely a hedonist as well. I don't think he was that way until Basil and Lord Henry spent so much time commenting on this looks, but he needs to be responsible for his own actions and it doesn't appear he has any remorse about things he has done. Does Gothic literature have to be creepy? An interesting ending to Dorian's story. I didn't realize until I read this that so many people assumed things about Dorian's life based on the rumors about Oscar Wilde's life.
ReplyDeleteI almost avoided this category, but I'm so glad I didn't, because I loved Daphne du Morier's Rebecca! It was go good!!
ReplyDeleteIgnore my Frankenstein review (instead, that's my "classic by a woman" pick. My correct link-up for the gothic/horror category is The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
ReplyDeleteI read And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. I enjoyed it, but I must admit I enjoyed reading Frankenstein and Jane Eyre even more last year!
ReplyDeleteI just finished Rebecca--what a terrific novel. It is a strong contender for my favorite read of the year.
ReplyDeleteJust linked my last book! Frankenstein.
ReplyDeleteI finally read Frankenstein. :)
ReplyDeleteI read The Italian by Ann Radcliffe. It was slow to start but I actually ended up getting into it midway through and down to the end. There was even a twist midway through I did not see coming! And it's otherwise just hilariously melodramatic. You know the books the March sisters are acting out, and the stories Jo's writing in the 1994 film version of Little Women? This book would have been one of those, no question.
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