I barely made the 75 book challenge for 2008 (as you can see in my topic), but ready to signed up for 2009. My categories are:
I. Science fiction
1. The Wave by Walter Mosley (added 3/18/2009, read 1/25/2009)
2.
... (Read in April, in English)
5. The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks (Read in March, in English)
6. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Read in January, in English)
7. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson (Read in April, in Du ...
Here is my Alternate List:
1. The Voyage of HMS Beagle
2. The Woman in White (Read)
3. Atonement (Read)
4. The Three Musketeers
5. Sarum
6. The Demon in the Freezer
7. Complete Nonsense (Read)
8. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Read)
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer ...
... Small Things, Arundhati Roy
2. The Aeneid, Virgil
3. The Book Thief, Marcus Zusak
4. Perfume, Patrick Suskind
5. The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
6. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
7. Mapp and Lucia, E.F. Benson (07/01/09)
8. Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenid ...
... Gerald Durrell
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
... a few certainly stick out.
Jane Eyre
The Thirteenth Tale
The Secret of Lost Things
Byron: Life and Legend
The Woman in White
The End of the Affair
Westmark, The Kestrel, The Beggar Queen (a series that made me sorely miss YA lit)
Mrs. Dalloway
The Tempest
Posse ...
... by Robert Louis Stevenson - *****
7) Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
8) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - ****
9) Roxana, Or the Fortunate Mistress by Daniel Defoe
I'm currently enjoying The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
1001
1. The Leopard
2. The Woman in White
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
4. Tristram Shandy
5. Memoirs of Hadrian
6. The Idiot
7. A Jane Austen readover
8. Barchester Towers
9.Swann's Way
... the 19th century "over the top' style of writing to really enjoy Dracula imo. If you like Wilkie Collins, especially Woman in White then try it.
Thanks for your input on The Woman in White--it goes back toward the top of my TBR, because I do enjoy Collins' work.
since in my library there are only eitgh classics, I choose The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
from hemlokgang's library
How did you like The Woman in White? I read The Moonstone earlier this year after watching several video versions of the story, and greatly enjoyed it--enough to read a series of Collins' works in shorter novels. I enjoyed just about every one of those works, and especially the histories ...
#61 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
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********1284 Must Read (combined 2006/2008 lists):
--Dickens
--Turgenov
--Auster
--Chocky by John Wyndham
--The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
--City of God by E. L. Doctorow
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********Reading Around the Globe (9 Nations by story or author):
--France: Madame ...
The Woman in White met Oedipus on the Road. They shared Crazy Kisses. "Marry Me, Cowboy" she moaned. He paused, then demanded, "Are You My Mother?"
Richard,
I am sorry to hear about your virus. I hope you can get your laptop restored.
I am finally free of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. YEAH !!!
It had yet another ending point, but again continued on. I finally got to the end and I am so happy.
I am now reading, for ...
I finally finished The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, thank heavens.
I am now reading The Ladies From St. Petersburg by Nina Berberova, translated by Marian Schwartz.
This book is also a RL book group read: Arm Chair Travelers. We read books set in different countries. Can be ...
I have to put in a bit of a word for The Woman in White, which I loved. I don't remember finding it slow, but that's probably because I read it as quickly as humanly possible.... far too exciting not to! But different strokes for different folks. I think I'm just trying to offset the lack ...
Hi All (Waves).
I am still slogging through The Woman in White which is why I haven't been on the 'puter recently. I have been forcing myself to read and not waste time on-line. I am now rewarding myself for progress made.
I am on page 440, and the end is in sight. Though I wanted ...
... He was in the Navy and got shipped to the south pacific and so did she. Had a cast of thousands I think.
Still reading The Woman in White but am past page 400. The story is told by different narrators, and I don't like the main one, because he seems wordiest and slowest. Just reached a ...
I actually preferred the woman in white to the moonstone by far, byt then again I really enjoy stories of madness and confused identities etc.
I also loved Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell although know plenty of people who couldn't get through it due to the footnotes etc - for me, this was ...
... (I like how the illustrations are scattered throughout the text in this one)
The Enchanted April - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
A High Wind in Jamaica - Richard Hughes
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
#13 fiscusfan
I have to add my voice in favor of The Woman in White. It really is a good story and is the basis of so many of the "damsel in distress" romantic mystery genre.
I actually preferred The Moonstone because it is more of a "detective" story and that is the mystery genre I ...
I loved The Woman in White. I guess it does go a little slowly, but to me it was
worth it. I honestly enjoyed the story. Hope it gets better for you!
okay>13 FicusFan..
The Woman in White is a sssslllloooowwww read..but, when it was originally published...folks read SLOW..was this book serialized in a Magazine? i don't know..i know Charles Dickens' novels were serialized...give Wilkie Collins a chance!!
sorry for pulling your chain
;- ...
Heh ~ I had trouble with The Woman in White too, Ficus, though I read it all the way through and am glad I did. I also read Collins' The Moonstone, which I enjoyed more. But I couldn't, simply could NOT, finish The Mysteries of Udolpho. Talk about sloooooowwwww and boooorring. Whole CHAPTE ...
I am still reading The Woman in White and thinking a fork in the eyeball would be more enjoyable.
Its sooooooo slow. Just not a fan of older books. Not sure how much longer I will be able to hang in there. If it weren't for a RL book group, I would have bagged it already (and may still ...
I am reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins for a RL mystery book group.
I am not fond of older works, so this is a bit of a chore. I have been reading it for 3 or 4 days and I am still under page 100. I find it very easy to put down, and hard to pick back up.
Just when I think I ...
I agree - woman in white is excellent and captivating.
Re: white teeth, I read it years ago before on beauty and thought it was a brilliant read - unlike on beauty!
... the other books I had read, with nothing new to show for it. But I know others have posted that they loved it.
I picked The Woman in White as the first Collins book to read. I am just at the start, but it seems well written and only a little clunky in terms of old-fashioned phrasing.
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... and Mr. Franklin Blake's narrative I enjoyed, along with the doctor, and the sergeant, etc. Though I still prefer the Woman in White.
Ficus, The Woman in White is a wonderful book! I loved every page.
... I really wanted to like it more, but it just didn't do it for me, and it was long and jumbled.
I am now going to start The Women in White by Wilkie Collins for my RL mystery group.
... So that makes my next read a tough one. We are reading Wilkie Collins for my RL Mystery group. I have to read either/both The Woman in White and/or The Moonstone next. I have both, so I am not sure which one I will start first.
I have read The Moonstone but not yet tried Woman in White, so I will have to add it to Continent TBR.
... women at home, sequestered and out of reach and then they are safe.....some man came up with that, no doubt!!
As for Woman in White - outstanding. I didn't think it could equal Collins' The Moonstone, but they are both excellent.
Woman in White will be moved up to near top on the TBR pile. Did you like this book?
Interesting to note that reportedly Charlotte was walking through the moors when she caught a very bad cold which precipitated the onslaught of her death....
I love the art of the Pre-Raphelities. The Vict ...
... or the moors - the Bennett girls, the Dashwwod sisters, Catherine Litton and Ellen Dean, and also the sisters in Woman in White. An ill wind or a rain seems to often be just the catalyst needed for an awfully long spell in bed with grevious sufferings and anxiousness ( and often just ...
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
... James Reese's latest book, The Dracula Dossier. A bit of the vampire myth combined with Jack the Ripper combined with The Woman in White. So as you can imagine, very, very creepy.
... book sales. Today's Granby (CT) buys (totaling only $20):
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell
A Woman's World by Marybeth Bond
Women's History of the World by Rosalind Miles
Messages from My Father by Calvin Trillin
Classic Scandinavian Cooking
...
... One Nights
Night and Silence Who is Here? by Pamela Hansford Johnson
The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
... England. I enjoyed this oldie but goodie so much I suggested it as a read for our next book club.
Also for the list Woman in White Wilikie Collins
Room with a View E. M. Forster
Mapp & Lucia E. F. Benson (series)
There are others, but I can't think of them. Victorian A ...
Once you get done with The Woman in White, you may want to try The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Summerscale tells the story of a true crime, but also goes talks about how these real Victorian detectives influenced Collins and Dickens, etc, and vice versa.
Some suggestions:
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Or Vanity Fair, Dr. Zhivago, The Count of Monte Cristo. And maybe Don Quioxte.
Personally, I struggled a little with Moby Dick. But I see that geneg is offering cetology lessons, it could be a interesting choice ...?! :)
... things off my wishlist have come available. Today's mail brought two of them: Nymph by Francesca Lia Block and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
orangeena and hjelliot, after reading your comments, I've added The Woman in White to my list. I also read the reviews posted on LT and it sounds like a fascinating book.
I re-read The Woman in White this year and I loved it even more this time around. I've got The Moonstone, which I'm saving for autumn.
#55 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
difficult to put down - Collins is the author of two of the first great detective novels. This is suspenseful as well as cleverly written with the use of multiple narrators - very entertaining
Re #80: I agree with HMO about the superiority of The Woman in White, though I believe Walpole's The Castle of Otranto gets the palm for being the first gothic novel. (Are the Bronte's sisters' novels too individual to be considered true representatives of the genre?)
I think The Woman in White is probably the best gothic novel ever written. I did enjoy what has been labelled as the first gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, but I think Wilke Collins novel had a much greater impact on generations of writers of gothic novels. It is a joy to ...
... both a fiction and a non-fiction mystery parcel and I can't wait to receive them. I'm hoping to get lucky on a copy of The Woman in White, as it's a book I've not yet read and planned to purchase anyways.
I also purchased Slaughterhouse-Five, The Wind in the Willows and The Invisible ...
hehe, thanks cameling . I am now reading The Woman in White and loving it.
Work slows me down, so I imagine I will be reading it for the next few days....
... dickens fan and often enjoy modern writers writing in such a style - e.g. I loved Fingersmith and its parallels to the woman in white
But kept a victorian mystery was just dire. The story never really got going. I won't ruin it for you with spoilers or anything, so I have to word ...
#125 If you enjoyed the moonstone you should love the woman in white - personally, I prefer the woman in white any day!
#210 Wicked is one of my favourite contemporary novels. The sequel isn't so great.
I read lord of the rings every couple of years or so and often get different ...
Just beginning Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - adored the Moonstone so I am looking forward to this
... (Cambridgeshire)
The Circle by Peter Lovesey (West Sussex)
One Corpse Too Many by Ellis Peters (Shropshire)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Cumbria)
2008
The Pursuit of Love; and Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford (Gloucestershire)
Cold Granite ...
From BookMooch:
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
From B&N:
Loving Frank by Nancy Horan
The Whole World Over: A Novel by Julia Glass
The Woman in White by William Wilkie Collins
The Fire: A Novel by Katherine Neville
The Right Attitude to Rain: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel ... by Alexander Mccall Smith
First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader
Tears of the Giraffe (No. ...
Am currently reading The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins, might take some time to finish, have some other commitments...
The Whole World Over: A Novel by Julia Glass
The Woman in White by William Wilkie Collins
The Fire: A Novel by Katherine Neville
The Right Attitude to Rain: An Isabel Dalhousie Novel ... by Alexander Mccall Smith
First Daughter by Eric Van Lustbader
T ...
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Burmese Days by George Orwell (Ordered - RL Book Group Inspired)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (RL Book Group)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Ordered - RL Book Group)
Gunpowder Plot by Carola Dunn (RL Book Group)
Snakes and Earrings by Hitomi Kanehara ($3.99 Bin)
The ...
... Prus
A Harlot High and Low
Lost Illusions
The Maias
Middlemarch
The Mists of Avalon
Robert Elsmere
The Woman in White
And most of Trollope’s Barsetshire/Palliser novels....
... Letter
24. The House of the Seven Gables
25. Cranford
26. Villette
27. North and South
28. Adam Bede
29. The Woman in White
30. The Mill on the Floss
31. Silas Marner
32. Fathers and Sons
33. The Water-Babies
34. Crime and Punishment
35. The Last Chronicle of B ...
I'm going with The Woman in White......?
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Industrial Magic: Women of the Otherworld by Kelly Armstrong
Singers & Sweethearts: The Women of Country Music
The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women - anthology
I am expecting a Mystery Book with my summer sale package. Maybe it will be The Woman in White or High Wind in Jamaica. I already have both.
From Half Price Books:
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
all lovely copies....
and for my husband:
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
From a friend:
The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
The woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
From a friend:
The Titan by Theodore Dreiser
The woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
It's been a few days and I'm brand new to blogging:
Woman's World by Graham Rawle
I'm a slow reader and very busy so I'll only be posting every 10 days.
http://nobsbookreviews.blogspot.com/
... if anyone is interested, Graham Rawle is a collage artist who has written a mystery using magazine clippings. It's call Woman's World. A fairly quick read, but intriguing. I've done a review of it if you're interested: http://nobsbookreviews.blogspot.com
While the story doesn't involve ...
Woman's World by Graham Rawle. Reviewed on my blogspot, if you want to check it out.
I have Women in Love and Woman in White in my TBR pile. Of those I've read, I would have to go with Wuthering Heights.
... The Sound of One Hand Clapping, read on the train yesterday--after it lay forgotten in my car for a week or so. Also The Woman in White on my pda got some time during a meeting yesterday!
Well, I'll move "Ella Mental Pea" (as my sister and I might have titled it--fond memories!) to ...
... egories:
1 - CLASSICS
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (Feb)
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe (May)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Jun)
Up next: Probably Great Expectations
2 - NEW AUTHORS
Someone Not Really Her Mother by Harriet Scott Chessman (Feb)
Si ...
Well, you did better than I did: I only finished 2 in June, but one of them was also The Woman in White. I don't know about you, but it took me forever to read it! I'm glad I did finally read it, and I liked it, but it won't rank as a favorite book. What did you think of it?
... are:
The Dangerous Joy of Dr. Sex and Other True Stories by Pagan Kennedy
Bruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
I moved in June, so that contributed to the lack of reading in the last two months...
... all ending in the death of the heroine, ghosts and bootleggers and mysterious manors are exactly what I need. I might visit The Woman in White next.
I have to admit, though, the further I get into Jane Eyre the more I wish that I didn't already know so much of the plot. Canon summaries ...
... to home), my son-in-law and I all thought it was wonderful, even though we frequently have different favorite books.
The Woman in White was just okay for me. I mostly enjoyed it, and am glad that I finally read it, but 19th Century literature is not, not, not among my favorites; ...
32. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
... am going to start How to Engage an Earl, followed by (in no particular order) Nanny Diaries *which is not a romance* , Summer of the Eagle, The Maclean Groom, and Never a Lady. Now, I don't know if I'll finish all those by the end of this week, but that is what I have 'planned'.
... am going to start How to Engage an Earl, followed by (in no particular order) Nanny Diaries *which is not a romance* , Summer of the Eagle, The Maclean Groom, and Never a Lady. Now, I don't know if I'll finish all those by the end of this week, but that is what I have 'planned'.
I am still reading the moonstone but coming to the end. I am enjoying it, but not as much as the woman in white which I loved.
I went to spend my voucher at the book shop last week and everything that I picked up started the blurb with something like 'a family rent apart by tragedy' and about ...
... ones and one of the non-fiction ones. Each parcel had 5 book in it. Best of all- no doubles!
In the fiction one:
The Woman in White
A High Wind in Jamaica
Animal Farm
Huckelberry Finn
I Capture the Castle
In the non-fiction one:
The Gunpowder Plot
St Joan of Arc
...
I'm currently reading the moonstone which started out as promising but isn't holding my attention like the woman in white
I've just got a gift card for Borders for my birthday and am putting off going in as I can't decide what to spend it on!!
The Woman in Black / The Woman in White
The Giver / The Collector
M. Butterfly / Madame Butterfly
Incredible Good Fortune / Misfortune
Circus Days / Nights at the Circus
... aspect....the feel, the smell, and just looking at the cover and binding are part of my pleasure. I've been e-reading The Woman in White seemingly forever. As much as I'm enjoying the story I only read it when I haven't brought a book or other reading material with me. I suppose for me, ...
... a real book and the sensory aspect....the feel, the smell, and just looking at the cover and binding. I've been reading The Woman in White seemingly forever. As much as I'm enjoying the story I only read it when I haven't brought a book or other readming material with me. I suppose for me, ...
... fingersmith - a brilliant novel and she captures the Victorian sensationalist tone perfectly. Put me very much in mind of the woman in white.
I'm currently reading the book of lost things after reading recommendations on here and have not been able to put it down, the style and the story ...
... you! I forgot you'd switched over to 75. Man you've been busy since I've been away. Interested in what you said about The woman in white I have The Moonstone lined up to read soon, I hope I like more about it than the author's name :)
... try to read the book another book is based on before I read the 'homage.' But I do know I also bought a better copy of The Woman in White after I read The Thirteenth Tale because the one I had was crappy little yellowed-with-age paperback. I'd like to give it a shot one of these days.
... I will confess that both are still om my to be read pile.
Having read the Thirteenth Tale, i went out and brought the Women in White, which I enjoyed.
So is it a growing trend in literature to write books refering to classics? Or am I just getting more conscientious and tring to fill ...
... it sometimes takes me a while to get there. Other times it fails to grab me altogether and I give up.
I did that with The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I went back to it about a year later and managed to get past the beginning and ended up enjoying it a lot.
I finished The Woman in White, which rocked, and now I'm reading Mad Ship, the second in the Liveship Traders trilogy. Not sure why I waited so long to continue with this. It's well written, great characters and solid world building. Some of it is really harsh and it does suffer from ...
46 The woman in white Wilkie Colllins
The only thing I liked about this book is the authors first name. What a plodding verbose nightmare this was. I'm doomed for classics at the rate I'm going.
45 The woman in white Wilkie Colllins
The only thing I liked about this book is the authors first name. What a plodding verbose nightmare this was. I'm doomed for classics at the rate I'm going.
littlegeek I am reading the women in white as well, and I am really enjoying it :-)
I must confess to struggling with Alice in Wonderland, and have put it aside for the moment. I also working my way through the middlesea slowly and finished the owl service the other day
... O'Brian
The Yellow Admiral, Patrick O'Brian
Scarlet and Black, Stendahl
Red Planet, by Robert Heinlein
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Now this is how to do goth, people.
On topic for a change, I'm reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Ole Wilkie is basically credited with inventing the goth genre, at least on that side of the pond. (We have our Poe.) This book is spooky, atmospheric, a touch of romance, plus it's got great characters and a whiz bang plot. ...
Wilkie Collins may be off bounds again since the last two adaptations, The Woman in White & The Moonstone, were not among BBC's big successes - possibly because they ripped away too much of the material leaving only the bare bones which they then re-arranged. (TWIW does contain one of my ...
... I know its permitted. I think I might have bitten off more than I can chew, assigning myself War and Peace, Clarissa, The Woman in White, and Villette along with everything else I wanted to read this year. :)
... the movie first and I really liked it so I wanted to read the book. I would be interested in reading others by him.
2. The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
I thought this was a good book, if a little slow at times, but the mystery kept me going.
3. The Curious Incident of the Dog in ...
At the moment I'm reading The Woman in White. So far I'm really enjoying it.
31,32> This reminds me a little of the heroine of The Woman in White. Marian is a fantastically bright and capable heroine but one who is very ugly (and actually does most of her detecting for the benefit of her beautiful half-sister, possibly in order that the beautiful sister can remain as ...
... Al Aswany
The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
My Brother's Keeper, Marcia Davenport
Turtle Moon, Alice Hoffman
The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
and for my husband,
How Soccer Explains the World, by Franklin Foer
... I read and enjoyed Water for Elephants last year, and, of the Dickens books I've read, Bleak House is my favorite. :) The Woman in White is awesome, as is The Moonstone (the latter of which I started before bedtime, and then stayed up all night to read).
#3: Wow, that IS a cool pop-up! ...
... Also very well written (by the author of Prague and Angelica).
Two of the very first mysteries ever written are The Woman in White and The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins. Both were fascinating, though I think upon reflection I preferred The Moonstone.
Excluding re-reads:
1. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
2. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
t3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
t3. A Handful of Dust
Honorable Mention: The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Ninety-Three, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Worst of ...
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As a child (and to this day) I loved the intro to Mystery! on PBS with Gorey's animation. I believe the only reason I read The Woman in White was due to the Gorey illustration on the cover.
... books that are also on the list:
Birdsong,
Frankenstein,
Catch-22,
Robinson Crusoe,
The handmaid's tale,
The woman in white,
One hundred years of solitude &
Disgrace
Just finished The woman in white by Wilkie Collins in my crime/mystery category. Beautifully written, great characters and a good story, in other words a great book. I'm not inclined to say to any more for fear of spoiling the story, but I'm going to give my favourite quote: "Was it at this point ...
... Novels {complete}
1. Bleak House by Charles Dickens **
2. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James ****
3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ****½
4. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens **½
5. Two on a Tower by Thomas Hardy ****
6. Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell ...
... of her bestselling books, was considered “sensation novels” (a genre headed by the more familiar Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White). These stories appealed to the nervous system, and hence the body, and not the mind. Many esteemed authors, including Dickens and Henry James spoke ...
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Have no fear! I have read The Moonstone! And The Woman in White, though that might not be the best next book to suggest, since it's by the same author. Loved them both, for what it's worth.
Atonement was my most recent 1001 read, and I know plenty of people on here have read that one.
1. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (8/10)
2. Dreamers of the Day by Mary Doria Russell (9/10)
3. Conquest of Gaul by Julius Caesar (8/10)
4. Cicero by Anthony Everitt (8/10)
5. Ancient Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak 8/10
6. Tie between The Fall of Troy ...
Mother Night + The Fifth Child + The Woman in White = four books? Somehow, yes.
.:32:64:.
Mother Night ****
by Kurt Vonnegut
03/18/08
The Fifth Child ***
by Doris Lessing
03/19/08
The Woman in White (#45) ****½
by Wilkie Collins
03/19/08
... from the cold FINISHED
4. The Moonstone
5. The Godfather FINISHED
6. The Lincoln lawyer
7. The big sleep
8. The woman in white FINISHED
Fantasy:
1. The Hobbit FINISHED
2. The Lord of the rings 50th anniversary edition FINISHED
3. Frankenstein FINISHED
4. Animal farm ...
I've abandoned my first book of the year, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, which was boring me silly after 350 pages, but then immediately picked up Richard Price's new novel Lush Life and can't put it down so far.
... of Justin the other day, thought it was wonderful and really enjoyed it. Right now I'm halfway through Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White, which is nothing more than melodramatic rubbish, but it's still mildly entertaining so far.
...
At B&N with my discount card:
Lolita
At the Friends of the Library sale for $2 each:
The Moonstone
The Woman in White
The God of Small Things
... on my ipod, and savor the moments.
I'm also reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It's not as compelling as Woman in White, but I will finish it. I certainly want to know where the story is going.
... on my ipod, and savor the moments.
I'm also reading The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It's not as compelling as Woman in White, but I will finish it. I certainly want to know where the story is going.
This should prove to be a fun way to add a little variety to this years reading.
{Original Challenge completed June, 24th}
{Original Challenge doubled November, 18th}
Categories now start at Message ...
Started today on The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. Very enjoyable so far... I'd heard of it more as a Gothic/mystery sort of novel, but its actually quite funny too.
Mine will be...
classics in my TBR
1) 39 steps by john buchan
2) armadale by wilkie collins
3) woman in white by wilkie collins
4) the maltese falcon by Dashiell Hammett
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Books to scare the pants off me (I hope)
1) the long walk by stephen king
2) something ...
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
... is a scholar and professor of ancient studies at, I think, Cambridge and really knows his stuff. Anyway, it beat out The Woman in White only by a tiny margin.
... month I've ever had, and out of 6 read I can recommend only two, and neither was a 10 (but both were close to it):
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Rome on Five Denarii a Day by Philip Matyszak
... May Alcott
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women edited by Sandra Gilbert
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft
P.S. "To Sherlock Holmes, she is always THE woman." (Irene Adler)
... by Thomas Hardy, She by H. Rider Haggard, The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde, and The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
I took a Victorian lit class as an undergrad that seems similar to Nickelinis... we also read Bleak House, Dr. Jekyll, and Confessio ...
I'm delighted you've been reading The Woman in White but can't read your comments yet because I'm planning a re-read this year.
...
I am going to finish Wilkie Collin's No Name this afternoon and will probably rate it at 4 stars. Not quite as good as The Woman in White or The Moonstone, but definitely a good story with memorable characters. Gotta love those Victorian novelists :-)
... challenge thread. I'll come back to write some more but I just want to get the titles down.
Erewhon - Samuel Butler
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
How Hits Happen - Winslow Farrell
I've decided to look at these in 'semi-reverse' order. I was a bit 'on the wrong track' when I ...
... Genuine Home-made Truly Egyptian Mummy (even the name screams of childhood fun and energy).
21. (26.) The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins (593pp)
I've been working on this for a few weeks on public transport but just couldn't get up the momentum to finish until yesterday. ...
... Setterfield,
I enjoyed the references to books and reading in this gothic kind of a tale. Quoted novels Jane Eyre, The Woman in White, Wuthering Heights, The Turn of the Screw are all inspirations in this tale of what happens when a brilliant reclusive author requests a young ...
2007, I picked 150 books to read. However, the last Harry Potter book completely ruined things for me and I had to desire to pick up another book until recently. I got around 50, if I was lucky (see http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=6899).
So, I'm not going to bite off more than I ...
... to Paton for me). Lampedusa is next up.
>19 Litfan, thanks, I'm looking forward to reading Danticat
>20 aluvalibri, A Woman (wrong touchstone) is on the list per your specific recommendation! However, as I'm reading the Lampedusa first, it will count as my visit to Italy. I will get to ...
I hope you will enjoy A Woman by Sibilla Aleramo, one of my favourite books in younger years.
... by Elizabeth Gaskell
4. Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
5. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
6. Cecilia by Fanny Burney
7. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
8. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Most of these could also fall in the category of 1001 Books, but again, these are all books that ...
Finished The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, which I thoroughly enjoyed, though it took me a long time to read. Have begun Summer Knight, a Harry Dresden fantasy-mystery by Jim Butcher, which is as usual really fun!
Finished Woman in White and am now reading Jim Butcher's Summer Knight, a Harry Dresden fantasy-mystery.
Edited to correct misspelling.
5. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. 8 stars. LT This was not quite as good as The Moonstone, although it hooked me from page one and got more intense & unputdownable as it went on. Still, after almost 3 months of consideration, I think I would prefer to reread The Moonstone, which ...
I bought these:
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Foreigner by C. J. Cherryh
I already had a copy of Collins book, but this had Clam-friendly sized print, and was only $1 at he library. ;o)
... order of start & ignoring planned 'long term' reads): Erewhon, Bad Monkeys, Measuring the World, Darwins Radio, The Lady in White, Suite Francaise. WHY do I have this problem of completion - then yesterday I went off to pick up a 'few' more books to read & I'm looking at them ...
About halfway through The Woman in White and am enjoying it immensely. Very compelling mystery, wonderful writing, and great characters, but oooh, Glyde and the Count and his lady are soooo creepy!
I'm about halfway through The Woman in White, which is really good ~ apparently one of the first mystery novels written. I've got to say, it gets pretty creepy in places, which is surprising considering when it was written.
I just started an e-version of The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I'm enjoying the book--and working to get used to the format, it's on my Palm. I'll start a "real" book, too as the ebooks will be on-the-run reads.
... downloaded Plucker software for my Palm. Topped that off with downloads of The Age of Innocence, Middlemarch, and The Woman in White. All for free. I haven't read novels in this format yet, but how great to have all that right at hand!
I'm reading The Woman in White now and am really enjoying it. I just started (about 3 chapters in) so am not yet sure exactly who the "heroine" is yet.
I've also got War and Peace on my list of books TBR in 2008. I think I'm going to be doing an LT group read of it.
... your ambition, to include War and Peace and Clarissa in your list -that's about 10 or 12 normal novels right there.
The Woman in White is a great read - it has one of the best heroines in all of Victorian fiction.
... End by Ken Follett (April, 5*)
5. The Proud Villeins by Valerie Anand (May)
6. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (June)
7. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (October, 4 1/2 *)
8. The Boleyn Inherit ...
I'm reading Woman in White by Collins. I read this passage last night before bed and enjoyed it so much I read it twice more. It's kind of long, so I apologize in advance if that's a problem.
Anyway, the young man who is the narrator is describing an older woman:
A mild, a compliant, an ...
Copied over from the other thread:
... and, though it's well-written and interesting, I think I'm just not in the mood. So I'm putting it aside and reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins instead. So far, a couple of chapters in, and I'm hooked.
... is deeper and more demanding than entertaining mystery novels. For example, I enjoyed The Moonstone and am now reading A Woman in White and very much enjoying it, and I loved The Egyptologist and enjoyed Angelica, all of which novels were narrated by a series of convincing characters ...
I have found Wilkie Collins very heavy going, although I did finish The Woman in white and also The secret agent by Joseph Conrad. They would both go on my list as 'worst'.
1 - CLASSICS I OWN
1. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
4. The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
5. The Story of Avis by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
6. The Bostonians by Henry James
7. The Secre ...
... World Without End by Ken Follett
7. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
8. I am Legend by Richard Matheson
9. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
10. Neverwhere by Neil Gaimen
11. Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
12. The Winter Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
13. ...
... in that list this year)
Hero with a Thousand Faces - Joseph Campbell
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Three Men in a Boat - Jerome K Jerome
The Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
The Periodic ...
... I think it will be a long while before I work up the patience to try another Samuel Richardson tome.
I applaud The Woman in White though! An excellent book, but I'm biased because I wrote my undergraduate honors thesis on that and two other Collins books.
... 08
(4) The Road – Cormac McCarthy (F)
(5) City of Oranges: Arabs and Jews in Jaffa – Adam LeBor (NF)
(6) The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (F)
(7) Villette - Charlotte Bronte (F)
(8) The House of Mathilde – Hasan Daoud (F)
I removed War and Peace ...
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Worth Any Price by Lisa Kleypas--It'd be a lie if I didn't include any romance novels
... Heights by Emily Bronte*
4. Villette by Charlotte Bronte
5. Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
6. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
7. Dracula by Bram Stroker
8. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Historical Fiction:
1. The Pirate's Daugh ...
This space used to contain the full category list, but there got to be too many touchstones, so I've broken them out into individual entries below and decided to delete this one.
1. Classics
1. Middlemarch by George Eliot
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
3. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
4. The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
5. Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
6. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
7. T ...
... Water for Elephants-Sara Gruen,A Test of Wills-Charles Todd and Bleak House Charles Dickens. I'm still looking for The Women in White-Wilkie Collins.But it will be fun to keep looking!
... End – E.M. Forster (F)
(3) The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel – Kevin Brockmeier (F) - 01/05/2008
(4) The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (F)
(5) Villette – Charlotte Bronte (F)
(6) War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (F) (new translation)
(7) City of Oranges: ...
...
(2) Howards End – E.M. Forster (F)
(3) The Brief History of the Dead: A Novel – Kevin Brockmeier (F)
(4) The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins (F)
(5) Villette – Charlotte Bronte (F)
(6) War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy (F) (new translation)
(7) City of Orang ...
Hmmm, actually I think the last good mystery I read was The Woman in White, back in July or so. (I've read some less good ones in between, but none I think I would encourage other people to actively seek out!)
TPBM should also be getting to bed about now but is instead faffing on LT...
Just last night I was talking about books with a friend who is a playwright. It turns out that he's reading The Woman in White, and we thought it a great coincidence that we were both reading Collins. Anyway, he told me about the musical and said the music from it is just wonderful! (He ...
The Woman in White is wonderful--the characters are just as compelling. I thought it read faster than The Moonstone, but that may have been because I knew what style to expect from him by the time I read The Woman in White.
I've heard about the musical, but, after reading the book, it's ...
... which is why I kept on with it through page after page of minutiae (sp?). Next on my list of Collins to read is The Woman in White which, I am told, has been made into a musical, of all things!
I've only read 10 this year, but my top five would be:
Jane Eyre (re-read)
Gone with the Wind
The Woman in White
Wide Sargasso Sea
Don Quixote
I think they're probably in order...
Well, due to a total reading funk (my reading mojo went AWOL!), it took me quite a while to finish The Woman in White and Tarzan of the Apes, despite the fact that I really enjoyed both of them!
Today I started reading Boy A by Jonathan Trigell and listening to an audio book of A Chris ...
... Early Reviewers). I'm not very far into either of them yet, but so far they're both pretty good. :)
I quite enjoyed The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, but I felt like it took a lot of reading, however, I LOVED Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs and am now determined ...
Currently reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and listening to an audio book of Tarzan of the Apes by Egar Rice Burroughs.
Continuing with The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Still reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, but also now listening to Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. Loving both of them. Especially Tarzan!
... Turner
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
A Room With a View - E. M. Forster (audio book)
I'm currently reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and listening to an audio book of Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, both of which I'm enjoying immensely,so if they ...
... to A Room with a View by E M Forster and also Love and Freindship (sic) by Jane Austen. Am currently reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and am about to start listening to Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
... Austen and am about to start listening to Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I haven't got very far into The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins just yet, but I'm enjoying what I've read so far.
... Forster, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and Love and Freindship (sic) by Jane Austen.
I'm currently reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and am also about to start listening to an audio book of Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Anyone else reading ...
Have now started reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
sirjazzhands, I would highly recommend reading Gone with the Wind - I'm reading it at the moment and think it's brilliant. The Woman in White is another classic with a good plot at its core. Wilkie Collins was a pioneering mystery writer and it's not hard to see why the genre took off after ...
To readerbabe1984:
If you like The woman in White you should definitely check out The Moonstone, at least in my opinion. Good times.
As for me, that Tristam Shandy is messing up my plan! I got through all the rest I mentioned, but I'm finding TS such slow going! And I only have three ...
I just finished Rebecca and I'll be reading The Woman in White by Willkie Collins next...
Finished (and loved) Rebecca. Starting The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins next...
Listening to an audio book of A Room with a View by E M Forster and reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
...
ROBINSON CRUSOE by Daniel Defoe
I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
BLEAK HOUSE by Charles Dickens
I'm currently reading:
THE WOMAN IN WHITE by Wilkie Collins
... Message 16:
> readerbabe1984:
> I just started The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
Have you read The Moonstone? The Woman in White has a lot of great images, but I think I prefer The Moonstone overall. I love Collins and was so pleased to see his works on the list, since it often ...
... yielded:
- High-Yield Gardening - touchstone not loading
- Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
- Oscar and Lucinda
- A Woman
- Baltasar and Blimunda - touchstone says "no title" but it brings up the correct book!
I highly recommend the small town of Hobart, NY and its 6 used ...
... reading:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee (audio)
And I'm replacing:
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
with
The Stand - Stephen King
I've started planning out my October reading too:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne B ...
I just started The Woman in White and I am finding it delightfully creepy. As you say, paulacs, perfect for the season!
I have to say Woman in White, as it was never on my TBR list. After reading the many glowing reviews by LThingers, I purchased a copy, and really loved it. I am somewhat addicted to classics, so this was a wonderful treat.
... order, here are 10 of my favorite books. Works of great literature included just happen to be among my favs.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
Pride and Prejudice ...
I'm almost half-way through The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. And it's not just you, Kiwiflowa. The touchstone for the title doesn't want to work--it's bringing up a completely different book!
#69
Aye, I've read The Moonstone.. I didn't enjoy it as much as The Woman in White.. was still pretty good though. The Evil Genius wasn't bad either :)
Oh The Woman in White is great. You might like The Moonstone as well if you like Collins.
I wish I could read a book like Persuasion for the first time again.
... time I read their names, wondering what was going to happen to Harry in the end..
One book I can't wait to "forget" is The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - I don't know how many of you others have read it, but I loved it, so I'm really looking forward to a time when I think "I ...
September
84. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins - Re-read this after many years. It definitely stands the test of time, although the characters' sensibilities about gender differences were hard to get used to.
85. Disobedience by Jane Hamilton - This book seems like an earlier, less-fu ...
... Rice
The Shining by Stephen King
A Winter Haunting by Dan Simmons
It by Stephen King
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Shall we take a vote? I think we should each pick three titles (because otherwise we might not come to a consensus).
... we do decide to do something more classical, Bram Stoker's Dracula is a good Halloween read.
Another good classic is The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins -- it's not horror, but it's mysterious and can be scary.
... book with great characters (first full novel with a female detective), though it lacked the suspense and tightness of The Woman in White and The Moonstone.
35. London is the Best City in America by Laura Dave
Maybe I read it too fast, but I found it disappointing.
36. Love W ...
... read other things as they take my fancy too.
My target list for September is:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee (audio)
Lovely Green Eyes - Arnost Lustig
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
...
Well, I've lined up four off the list for September:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee (audio)
The Time Machine - H. G. Wells
I think that's quite a nice assortment to tackle over the period of a ...
... by Thomas Hardy
8. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
9. Ben Hur by Lew Wallace
10. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
11. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
12. The Tenant of Wildfell hall by Anne Bronte
13. Wuthering Heights ...
... love story but more as a social critic on the live circumstances of the mill workers at that time.
Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White: A real pageturner. When reading Collins it allways need a bit time to get in the book, but then it takes your breath away and you can't put it down! That ...
54: I read The Woman in White recently and loved it. Enjoy, it's one of the best mystery/conspiracy type stories I've read and it really surprised me!
As for my current reading, I'm stalling a bit on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (touchstone not loading), but have just started on The ...
I just started The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. I remember reading it as a kid, and my grandmother prohibiting my reading it since it's too "adult". I must have been 11, since my gm died when I was 12. Of course that was too young, and in addition I don't remember any of it!
... nte
16. The Dead Fathers Club by Matt Haig
March:
17. Tears of the Giraffe by Alexander McCall Smith
18. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
19. The Riddle of the Third Mile by Colin Dexter
20. Ascending Peculiarity by Edward Gorey and Karen Wilkin
21. ...
... how ignorant I am about classics in the genre! :-(
I've had a little charity shop buy up this week and got hold of The Woman in White, The Turn of the Screw (which incidentally I've watched loads of times but never read) and M. R. James Ghost Stories. Any other classics in ...
She left the Valley of the Dolls to reach The Snows of Kilimanjaro and became The Woman in White in the process but it was the best way to avoid the Faceless Killers. But she still died on The Magic Mountain.
Having now read The Woman in White, I have reread this thread, and it is more fascinating than ever.
NocturnalBlue, your insight that Laura and Marian are like two halves of the same woman, both of which were needed to make a complete spouse for Walter, reminded me of the classic virgin/whore ...
...
All Families Are Psychotic
-Douglas Coupland
Cubicles
-Camika Spencer
See Through
-Nelly Reifler
The Woman in White
-Wilkie Collins
The Unprofessionals
-Julie Hecht
Dead Souls
-Nikolai Gogol
The Fairtax Book
-Neal Boortz & John Linder
...
... Row.
Tom Hanks did a good job reading The Bonfire of the Vanities; The Moonstone (read by various narrators) and The Woman in White were pretty good; Brideshead Revisited, read by David Case/Frederick Davidson, wasn't bad.
I recall listening to Their Eyes Were Watching God, Mrs ...
I finished The Woman in White -- good; but it rankled my feminist sensibilites and as inundated as my modern gimlet eye is by mysteries and crime fiction -- I was underwhelmed by 'the Secret' and I thought for sure there would be at least one more twist regarding the identity of the 'real' Lady Gl ...
>15, Oh, The Woman in White is also in my TBR pile! Sounds like we are pursuing similar reading lists, at least with respect to British fiction. :)
... judgement.
Suffice it to say, I am really enjoying 19th British lit. -- Elliot, Austen, Dickens, and I am reading The Woman in White right now which I am enjoying.
(I am also insanely embarrassased when I was reading thru the posts to refresh my memory that I wrote UNeloquently ...
... of age novel set in Nigeria, complete with abusive parent, murder, military coups, and falling in love with a priest.
33. The woman in white an ebook, mystery, but of a predictable British type of that period. Think of mixing Jane Austin with Charlotte Bronte.
34, Aesops Fables. forced my ...
... me crazy a la Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell. And the poetry -- most of it was truly dreadful IMHO.
I just started The Woman in White per some recommendations on the 1001 novels group. It's a pretty thick book so it should keep me occupied for awhile.
... Possession by A.S. Byatt. Pretty good; very original -- but way too much poetry for me.
I have recently bought The Woman in White, too. Maybe I'll have to start that next.
I loved Middlesex also, probably my third favorite book of the year. I am currently reading The Woman in white and Life of Pi, just finished Purple Hibiscus last night.
I am also reading Lust lizard of melancholy cove. Will probably finish them all tomorrow or next day.
Yeah, seriously. The Woman in White is awesome. Such an intense book. I did not mind the length in the slightest.
I am reading The Woman in White online and I can hardly tear myself away, although it is longer than I anticipated.
... in the time that would take!).
January 2007
1. The Man Who Was Thursday : A Nightmare by G. K. Chesterton
2. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
3. Valley of the Shadow by Peter Tremayne
4. A Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
5. The Law and the Lady by ...
...
Good Behaviour by Molly Keane (after reading Time After Time
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (after reading The Woman in White and The Law and the Lady)
The Wisdom of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton (after reading The Man Who Was Thursday)
Old Filth by Jane Gardam ...
... are not in my catalogue.
I've deleted several duplicate additions, but was especially trying to have subjects with my A Woman In White by Wilkie Collins
The Yellow-lighted Bookshop
Bitter is the New Black
The Woman in White
Born on a Blue Day
Red Dust
I second eyelesbarrow's recommendation--if you like Wilkie Collins books like The Moonstone and The Woman in White, you will like The Law and the Lady.
Right now, I'm reading Prisoner's Base. It's the first one I've read by Rex Stout. I figured that since I now have four of ...
#169> eyelesbarrow, thanks for the info. I have read botj The Moonstone and The Woman in White and I really enjoyed both of them. I will definitely look into The Law and the Lady.
By the way, welcome to LT!
... dickens (they're actually good friends) and the law and the lady, which is less known than his two earlier books (the woman in white and the moonstone), is said to be the first mystery book with a lady sleuth.
... Secret Sorrows of Josephine B by Sandra Gulland were my favorites for the month. If I finish it this month, I suspect The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins will join them.
I'm reading The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and 1215 by Danny Danziger. Not very far into either, so I can't yet comment on them.
... were 3 for £5. >>
Zorro - Isabel Allende
Medalon - Jennifer Fallon
Mansfield Park - Jane Austen
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
The Champion - Elizabeth Chadwick
Tess of the d'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
I have no restraint. =(
You might as well write your reviews of '白衣女人' (The Woman in White) and '月亮宝石' (The Moonstone) in Chinese while at it. (More than one-liners if you please.) Translations will be left as an exercise to the reader.
I thang yew.
... Dumas, Agatha Christie, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the list goes on. More good stories are The Woman in White, Julius Caesar, The Importance of Being Earnest, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. There are so many to choose from...
A little splurge in the charity shop gave me (all for £6.50!)
Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The Anthony Bourdain Omnibus (contains Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour)
Small Island by Andrea Levy
...
... your review is excellent! I really enjoyed reading it, and it brought back to my mind the pleasure I felt when reading The Woman in White, about a million years ago. I also agree with you about the far superior quality of Wilkie Collins' writing style as opposed to Bram Stoker's. L ...
Wow, tomcat, it looks like great minds think alike!
I have The Woman in White on my bookshelf now and am looking forward to diving into it. Jane Smiley says in her book Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel that one of the great themes in literature is the question of how women should ...
One of the interesting things about The Woman in White is Marian Halcombe - she is one of the great heroines in Victorian fiction. When all the men accept the situation she doesn't, she battles against her the odds.
In TWIW, Marian is the equal, if not more, to the men. This leads to an ...
... who write long reviews almost always are. You have not disappointed me, tomcatMurr! This is a fascinating comparison, and The Woman in White is now on my lengthening to-be-read list.
Your comment about Dracula being sloppily written and yet having an abiding impact particularly struck me. ...
... Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest and The Romany Rye by George Borrow
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Uncle Silas by J. Sheridan LeFanu
The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Independent People ...
... than as a novelist.
Are there any other Wilkie Collins fans out there? His best known works are The Moonstone and The Woman in White, but he wrote a great many other very good novels.
... andthrone of blood. I also like raise the red lantern, farewell my concubine, seven samurai,women in the dunes,a taxing woman and tampopo.
Ghandi was done by english and american actors, but it certainly was about asia as were a passage to india, gunga din, the painted ...
... found this to be intriguing!
13. The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins ***** great book, though I must admit I preferred The Woman in White to this one
14. Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande ****
15. Without reservations : the travels of an independent woman by Alice Steinb ...
... and I'm now anxious to read/reread his other works!
#7 - The Moonstone is another of my favorites. I've yet to read The Woman in White and I'm hoping it's just as good!
... think this book could have used some editing -- if only to let the really great parts shine through more.
I have The woman in White and Helen of Troy on my TBR list.
#8 that is my favorite Picoult book. I have since grown weary of her rather contrived novels.
... like novels set in fantasy and the Victorian era so it was right up my street.
I'm currently reading Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White which is absolutely fantastic. Dubbed as Victorian sensation fiction, it brings the unease of the gothic down to the level of Victorian parlour rooms and ...
... Priest
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens
The first 4 books in the Dame Frevisse Medieval Mystery series (I've read most of her later ones but ...
... Lovers - not the best of her stories, but I think it could make a great film.
Wilkie Collins - I love, love, The Woman in White; I found The Moonstone harder to get into, but rewarding.
... as a proper-grown-up I think I can appreciate Anne Brontë, the least well known Brontë sister, a whole lot more.
Also The Woman in White is amazing. But Armadale by Wilkie Collins is, in my opinion, better than either of his two better known novels.
Persuasion is the best Jane ...
... haha). I'm just more surprised that his name isn't talked about more.
I have about 100 more pages until I finish Woman in White, and I'm waiting for something to be done about Fosco. He may be a "Napoleon of Crime" but the good guy has to be vindicated in the end!... at least that's ...
... About a Boy by Nick Hornby (Islington/Angel/Camden, North London)
Slammerkin by Emma Donoghue (Central London)
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins (Parts set in Hampstead & St. John's Wood)
And obviously Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby parts of which are set in Highbury.
... by Mark Z. Danielewski
Mischief by Douglas Clegg
The Shining by Stephen King
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Some of the above works a classics and some are more recent.
I just wondered who here had read both of these - Wilkie Collins' original 'sensation novel' The Woman in White, and James Wilson's pastiche sequel The Dark Clue, about a mystery involving the life of the artist JWM Turner.
Not to give away too much, I thoroughly enjoyed The Woman In ...
Hi, everyone!
I'm reading Woman in White by Wilkie Collins right now which I'm really loving. I'm about halfway through and each time I have to make a stopping point, I don't want to put it down! The characters are amazingly developed and the plot-suspense pulls you in... great Victorian novel ...
... the older ones too but yes they can be wordy! I love Wilkie Collins but he is very wordy. I think somewhere in the Woman in White he takes three pages to describe a sunset!
Ohh yes Phyllis A. Whitney I have many of hers, I think its been awhile since I read one though! My Brot ...
The Woman in White is one of my favorite books of all time. (and you're right, it's definitely gothic, though it's also labeled a sensation novel because of the Victorian time period.) my other favorites are Uncle Silas, Dracula, and anything by Ann Radcliffe. I also recently read (and loved) ...
The Woman in White is one of my favorite books of all time. (and you're right, it's definitely gothic, though it's also labeled a sensation novel because of the Victorian time period.) my other favorites are Uncle Silas, Dracula, and anything by Ann Radcliffe. I also recently read (and loved) ...
... the "damsel in distress" paperbacks for me too. On the Noir board someone has said that the old Wilkie Collins book The Woman in White is considered French Noir! I always considered that one a Gothic too but it is one of the older ones.
Yes I'll add the Satanic Gothic as a tag. I ...
... is ahead of the crowd here. The French coined the term Roman Noir for certain 18th century English Gothic novels. It fits The Woman in White very nicely.
If my memory is correct, Roman Noir predates the Hardboiled Noir genre by quite some time. Hardboiled Noir was applied retrospectively by ...
"I don't know if I put The Woman in White in that same noir crowd. I have read that one along with a few others of Wilkie Collins - I think he would be more just straight gothic even going into the gothic romance genre. But like I said earlier - noir is hard to define.
Mm, yes... so that we might almost define noir as 'modern urban gothic,' in relation to it. The Woman in White is a particularly fruitful point of illumination, tartalom; especially as I know it better. Thank you.
... Friend at the minute which is kind of noir - city, fog, dark deeds, victorian london noir - a subgenre I suppose. See also The Woman in White
Book #52 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins. (Obtained through the county Federated Library System.)
I really, really enjoyed this book. It wasn't quite what I expected. I was ...
