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Thomasb (Thomasb)
Username: Thomasb

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.25.141.120
Posted on Tuesday, July 16, 2013 - 07:24 pm:   

Hello to Everyone:

This time, some thoughts "The Accursed" a Gothic horror tale by Joyce Carol Oates. (Her novel, "Bellefleur" is one of my favorite horror novels.):

http://tbdeluxe.blogspot.com/2013/07/thoughts-on-the-accursed-by-joyce-carol.htm l

Thanks for reading and take care!
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.126.164.88
Posted on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 03:30 am:   

Really?! I've been passing over this nice paperback of Bellefleur myself, thinking it, too, was "some earnest, weepy, melodramatic family saga-soap opera," but I guess I'm wrong! I don't know why I do that, though... Oates is a phenomenal writer. Have you ever read one of her lesser known novels, from 1984, Mysteries of Winterthurn? The jacket describes it to be just what you found Bellefleur to have been—one of those novels long languishing on my TBR pile....
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Thomasb (Thomasb)
Username: Thomasb

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.25.141.120
Posted on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 - 07:23 pm:   

Thanks Craig: No, I haven't heard of "Winterthurn," but I'll try to keep it in mind. She's been a champion of Lovecraft's, BTW, editing a collection of his work. Wait 'til you get to the "Love, the Spider" chapter in "Bellefleur"!
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 217.202.35.38
Posted on Thursday, July 18, 2013 - 07:31 am:   

She has recently won two Bram Stoker Awards in a row with her collections "The Corn Maiden" and "Black Daliah, White Rose".
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Thomasb (Thomasb)
Username: Thomasb

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 75.25.141.120
Posted on Saturday, July 20, 2013 - 06:59 pm:   

Yeah, it's good seeing interpenetration and crossover with genre and so-called "highbrow" fiction!
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 108.221.136.29
Posted on Monday, May 17, 2021 - 08:05 pm:   

Oates is overrated.

Time hasn't been kind to Oates, in the mind of me.
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 2.102.2.197
Posted on Tuesday, May 18, 2021 - 10:53 am:   

The one time I tried to readher she felt like a brain without a heart, like if you were to approach her in reality she actually wouldn't see you, humanity was so low on her radar. Does that sound harsh?
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 108.221.136.29
Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 06:53 pm:   

This seems to describe her perfectly, imho. I had found her Twitter feed, and wow! You thought JCO was a prolific writer? Not even close to how much she Tweets and re-Tweets! And lemme tell you... discovering that Twitter feed, didn't endear me to her....
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Tony (Tony)
Username: Tony

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 92.11.31.115
Posted on Saturday, July 10, 2021 - 11:13 am:   

And yet I love her comments here
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates
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Craig (Craig)
Username: Craig

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 99.180.70.140
Posted on Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 06:25 am:   

I like JCO talking about anything except politics. She is brilliant and witty and wise. A bit snooty seeming, down-her-nose-looking, I perceive. But whatever, she's earned it. Just needs to shut up about politics, no one cares about that.

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