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 Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 5:46 pm
I saw the movie version on this last week and I'm going to read it, bit by bit, online now. I very much enjoyed the movie but from what I can gather it is very different from the book. The Woman in White (Bibliomania) The Woman in WhiteSummary The Woman in White, a novel by Wilkie Collins, is a mystery narrated by draughtsman and artist Walter Hartwright and various other characters within the tale: most of whom are potentially questionable in what they say (as in Browning's The Ring and the Book). It was published in 1860. The story begins with Walter's late night meeting of the titular woman dressed in white who he rescues from a group of pursuers. Walter goes to work in the service of the selfish and unpleasant Mr Fairlie as a drawing instructor and in doing so meets his niece Laura who strongly resembles the mysterious woman in white. Walter falls in love with Laura, but naturally there is a hitch. Laura does love Walter but is engaged to Sir Percival Glyde. Deceit, love and various unmaskings ensue that explain the strange confinement within an asylum of Anne Catherick. Tense adventures, villainy and gloriously fitting retributions are Collins? remedies. What books has everyone read this week?
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Posted: Sun Oct 01, 2006 10:17 pm
Im a reading, Under the banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer. Its about the momon fundamentalist groups. it does talk about the beginnings of mormondon and Joseph Smith and how the religion eventually fractioned off into sects. The whole thing is actually tied to the 1984 slayings of a woman and her child by two mormon fundamentalists who believe that God told them to kill.
Its absolutely fascinating but sadly, I've not been reading it often, I will read and take long breaks from it, I don't know why. Life gets in the way, I should actually finish tonight and then I want to start the last Sharon Kay Penman novel I have.
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 12:55 pm
That sounds like an interesting book. It might be like some books.. you have to take it in small portions because there's too much to it.. or the emotional content is just so intense that it's painful to read too much of it. Is it like that?
That is a fascinating theme, though. Killing because God told me to... You just have to wonder if God told them to expect prison
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Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 2:24 pm
Thats one of the reasons why I don't approve of religion, people (some I suppose, not all) take it and taint it to fill their own wants and needs. God wants that person dead, God told me to do it. Thats crap. If god, who is this great powerful thing, wanted that person dead....then POOF!! they would be dead, stop getting all high and mighty and think that it is only through you that the mysterious of what ever afterlife you subscribe to can be applied. Bollocks, you wanted that person dead and you made it happen, its your own egotistical malicious drive, don't blame or claim a higher power.
It is intense at parts, especially the young brides, I find it very difficult to read about 13 year olds being forced to marry dirty 40 year old men who then get pregnant before their 14 birthday. The fact that this is a respected sanctioned part of the fundamentalist religion turns my stomach, its a vile thing, they are just glorified perdophiles.
I reccomend the book though, its really good. Just hard.
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:03 pm
So I have finished Under the Banner of Heaven, went on to read Mirror Mirror. Very good, Gregory Maguire Quote: Book Description The year is 1502, and seven-year-old Bianca de Nevada lives perched high above the rolling hills and valleys of Tuscany and Umbria at Montefiore, the farm of her beloved father, Don Vicente. But one day a noble entourage makes its way up the winding slopes to the farm — and the world comes to Montefiore. In the presence of Cesare Borgia and his sister, the lovely and vain Lucrezia — decadent children of a wicked pope — no one can claim innocence for very long. When Borgia sends Don Vicente on a years-long quest, he leaves Bianca under the care — so to speak — of Lucrezia. She plots a dire fate for the young girl in the woods below the farm, but in the dark forest salvation can be found as well ... A lyrical work of stunning creative vision, Mirror Mirror gives fresh life to the classic story of Snow White — and has a truth and beauty all its own. I really liked it, it was an interesting story. Next on the list is the last of the Sharon Kay Penman books, I don't even know what it is called but its about Eleanor of Aquitane. Should be awesome, the trilogy I read by her was awesome at least..... smile
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 9:43 am
OOh Eleanor .. one of my favorite historical personages. Very colorful.
You have a great reading list!
You reading is very specific, it seems. What genres do you like? I'm much more into Fantasy and Gothic right now (Ananda inspired me inot Gothic xd ) and I'm into a Lovecraft / Hitchcock jag
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Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:31 pm
I read what ever is thrown at me or recommended.
I love fantasy, I always have but recently got into history and true life. Some things are stranger than fiction like "under the banner of heaven"
For a while I was really into the Outlander series (its awesome) By Diana Gabaldon (I think I spelled that wrong) about a woman from today's time goes back in time to about the 1700's maybe? The time of the scottish rebellion, Culloden and the jacobites. It was an awesome series. Because of that interest a friend got me reading Sharon Kay penman books.
My goodness, those are awesome! She writes history in an entertaining novel form. (I hate dry history) I've read here be dragons, Falls the Shadow and the Reckoning (I really recomend those books) I have to start The sunne in splendor now.
I don't know...I guess I just go on kicks. I love horror books too, robort jordan was awesome, adn then just random books....100 years of solitude. I don't know...I just like reading. smile
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:40 pm
I hate dry histroy as well.. but there have been a few titles that aren't so dry. I have a couple over ww2 that are realyl gripping , belive it or not.
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