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     Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
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! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
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.... | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
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"! | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 217.202.35.38 |
She has recently won two Bram Stoker Awards in a row with her collections "The Corn Maiden" and "Black Daliah, White Rose". | ||
| Thomasb (Thomasb) Username: Thomasb Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.25.141.120 |
Yeah, it's good seeing interpenetration and crossover with genre and so-called "highbrow" fiction! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 108.221.136.29 |
Oates is overrated. Time hasn't been kind to Oates, in the mind of me. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 2.102.2.197 |
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? | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 108.221.136.29 |
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....  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.11.31.115 |
And yet I love her comments here https://mobile.twitter.com/JoyceCarolOates | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.180.70.140 |
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. |