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999 Challenge : ladyc72385: 999 challenge		140	ivyd, Today 4:22pm
What Are You Reading Now? : What books did Santa - secret or otherwise - bring you?		40	rstuckey, Today 4:13pm
50 Book Challenge : bell7's second part of 2009 - 50 books again		96	elliepotten, Today 2:17pm
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : englishrose60's 100+		156	englishrose60, Today 12:28pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Sanddancer's 2009 Reading		221	FlossieT, Today 5:31am
999 Challenge : bell7's crazy/hopeful -- 999 x 2		133	bell7, Yesterday 10:55pm
1001 Books to read before you die : Nickelini's 1001 List		15	Nickelini, Yesterday 4:37pm
50 Book Challenge : Belgrade18 2009		47	belgrade18, Yesterday 2:57pm
Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night : The Return of 'What scary movie have you watched recently?'		277	goydaeh, Yesterday 11:50am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : 2009 Reading		21	porch_reader, Yesterday 10:25am
Club Read 2009 : janeajones' 2009 book junket 2		75	janeajones, Yesterday 9:58am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Karen's 75 Books on a Stick (2009)		168	klobrien2, Sunday 6:45pm
1010 Category Challenge : CMBohn's 101010 list		47	bruce_krafft, Sunday 5:50pm
1001 Books to read before you die : Arubabookwoman's 1001 Quest-1-36		16	arubabookwoman, Sunday 5:37pm
What Are You Reading Now? : What Books Have You STOPPED Reading?		235	mrssweetiebear, Sunday 5:04pm
50 Book Challenge : Corinne's 2009		50	Corinne, Sunday 4:30pm
Book talk : WHAT ARE YOU READING NOW? Where? How? Why? What? etc.		105	susiesharp, Sunday 9:35am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Laytonwoman3rd Reads the Year Away 2009 (Thread 3)		162	koalamom, Sunday 8:40am
1001 Books to read before you die : brochettes is trying to read 1001 books before she dies- and hopes that she lives a very long life..		31	brochettes, Sunday 4:49am
999 Challenge : Moneybeets'		98	moneybeets, Saturday 1:14pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : lindsacl's (Laura's) challenge - part 3		216	Whisper1, Thursday 7:04pm
Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night : Stories where things are............wrong		13	sorell, Thursday 11:20am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Sean191's 75 Book Challenge for 2009		152	Sean191, Thursday 9:09am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Alaskabookworm's 2009 Reading List		234	muddy21, Wednesday 2:44pm
999 Challenge : Carlos' 999 challenge		240	hailelib, Tuesday 3:53pm
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Club Read 2009 : timjones's 2009 reading part 2		35	timjones, December 21
999 Challenge : IrishHolger's 999 list		36	IrishHolger, December 21
Books off the Shelf Challenge : La No More Excuses		7	mamzel, December 20
1001 Books to read before you die : Theresa's 1001		2	HuntingtonParanormal, December 19
50 Book Challenge : Jordan Langston's 2009		18	JordanLangston, December 18
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Hemlokgang's 100 Book Challenge for 2009		110	hemlokgang, December 16
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Cal8769's 2009 Mission to Conquer Mount TBR Extended Version		164	cal8769, December 16
List Five Books Parlour Game : Therapy anyone?		25	varielle, December 15
Alphabet Challenges : wolf_babe's ABCs		6	wolf_babe, December 14
Opera, or Nobody Knows the Traubel I've Seen : New Season of Radio 3 Opera		73	abbottthomas, December 13
50 Book Challenge : Leuntje's challenge in 2009		92	Leuntje, December 13
BBC Radio 3 Listeners : Opera		75	antimuzak, December 12
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Group Read: War and Peace		237	billiejean, December 11
1001 Books to read before you die : Shorter books		68	KimB, December 9
Club Read 2009 : fannyprice's 2009 reading part II		169	tomcatMurr, December 7
Literary Snobs : Henry James-- which to choose?		15	geneg, December 7
1001 Books to read before you die : Paruline's attempt		40	paruline, December 7
1001 Books to read before you die : Soffitta1's 1001 Books- Lifetime of Reading		20	soffitta1, December 4
1001 Books to read before you die : Blondierocket's 1001 Progress		14	blondierocket, December 1
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Prop2gether's Reading, Act III		72	VioletBramble, November 30
Reading Globally : janeajones' memorable books from around the world		77	qforce, November 30
999 Challenge : LauraBrook's		57	cmbohn, November 27
999 Challenge : Elee's		60	socialpages, November 24
1001 Books to read before you die : maryjanemanolos progress		123	maryjanemanolos, November 23
Le Salon Litteraire du Peuple pour le Peuple : Short Books, Short List		47	nannybebette, November 18
50 Book Challenge : Welachild's 50 books March 2009- March 2010		42	Welachild, November 15
Reading Globally : October Group Read - ghoulies and ghosties - recommendations		87	bfertig, November 10
Monthly Author Reads : October: Reading Henry James		54	nannybebette, November 7
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 31, 2009?		201	teelgee, November 7
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Tales of Mystery and Horror for Halloween		266	Berly, November 4
What Are You Reading Now? : New Vocabulary		249	callmejacx, November 3
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : MusicMom41's 2009 Reads--3rd stanza		264	MusicMom41, November 2
1001 Books to read before you die : Katrina 1001 attempt		14	katrinasreads, October 29
50 Book Challenge : nannybebette---the 4th inning		301	nannybebette, October 28
50 Book Challenge : TheresaHPIR's		105	lisaling, October 13
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 3, 2009?		227	Mr.Durick, October 10
50 Book Challenge : Banoo's 2009 Reading List		201	Banoo, October 5
Literary Snobs : Unreliable narration		92	kswolff, October 4
999 Challenge : soffitta1's		72	ivyd, September 24
999 Challenge : CatyM's		116	chrine, September 15
50 Book Challenge : suncloud9's reading journal Spring 2008		39	suncloud9, September 7
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Laytonwoman3rd --2009--Second Quarter		293	laytonwoman3rd, September 7
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Nickelini's 2009 Reading List		338	Nickelini, September 1
50 Book Challenge : merry10's 2008 challenge		222	merry10, August 17
50 Book Challenge : nebowers - my 52BookChallenge list		5	nebowers, August 11
Club Read 2009 : cabegley's 2009 reading		231	cabegley, August 9
Book talk : Creepy books for book club?		21	extrajoker, August 8
The Green Dragon : Reading Alphabetically		413	calm, August 8
1001 Books to read before you die : What 1001 book are you reading: July 2009		103	susiesharp, August 1
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - July 2009		228	rolandperkins, August 1
List Five Books Parlour Game : Rhyme Time		54	CD1am, July 21
List Five Books Parlour Game : Tools of the trade		13	sunbrarian, July 19
2009 Genre Challenge : July suggestion		8	billiejean, July 18
100 Books Challenge for 2009 : Twinkley's 100 list so far		9	twinkley, July 1
Literary Snobs : Portrait of a Lady		20	geneg, June 27
Club Read 2009 : janeajones's 2009 book junket		104	janeajones, June 26
Ghost Stories, Past and Present : Henry James' "Turn of the Screw": great ghost story or not?		20	unorna, June 10
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of 30 May, 2009?		231	FicusFan, June 8
Book talk : A Silly Boo Game/Part 6		300	SqueakyChu, May 29
What Are You Reading Now? : Another Meme--please forgive me		57	jnwelch, May 19
999 Challenge : Boookywooky's 999 challenge		44	boookywooky, May 19
Book talk : Stupid game to play		437	careyi, May 4
2009 Genre Challenge : April Genre -- Horror		19	readeron, May 1
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Literary Snobs : Favorite lines...		120	bobmcconnaughey, April 20
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... Mr. Whicher Batavia's Graveyard The Fourth Bear Diary of a Madman and other stories Wild Town also a DVD of The Turn of The Screw and a Lucky magazine subscription. Not bad, not bad.

I just finished reading Angelica by Arthur Philips and I believe it fits in perfectly with this topic. It's like Turn of the Screw and set in a similar time period, but it was written in this century. It's narrated by various characters and how they perceive the "ghost" encounters. Simply a ...

Turn of The Screw by Henry James

... the Fury 4. James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans 5. Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Sailor 6. Henry James, The Turn of the Screw 7. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables 8. Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye 9. John Steinbeck, East of Eden This challenge was ...

... the Night and This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Oroonoko by Aphra Behn Silent Spring by Rachel Carson The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter Lorna Doone by R.D. Blackmore The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois A Busy Day by Fa ...

... ithiopika 43. A Christmas Carol 44. The Purloined Letter 45. A Tale of Two Cities 46. The Yellow Wallpaper 47. The Turn of the Screw 48. Memoirs of a Geisha

Ooh, they all look like great suggestions - I've only tried The turn of the screw before, and I think I was too young to appreciate that (about 12). 'Quiet horror' does sum it up fairly well, and certainly with far fewer words than I used - I'll try poking about for that. Thank you all so much!

I don't think you can beat The Turn of the Screw, which never fails to give me the creeps.

... society, told from the interesting point of view of an American-born who is completely absorbed in the European life) The Turn of the Screw (enjoyable ghost story that plays with the reliability of multiple framed narrators) The Portrait of a Lady (continuation of trans-Atlantic ...

... a reader such as me, I've only read books within the time epriod of about fifty years. The oldest book I've ever read was The Turn of the Screw by Henry James who also used very complicated language which was difficult to understand. Luckily, footnotes for Dracula are provided allowing me to ...

... 6. Death on The Diagonal 7. Hello Darling Are You Working? 8. The Riddle and the Knight 9. Spiced to Death 10. The Turn of the Screw 11. Crime and Punishment 12. Plato in 90 Minutes 13. South of Sanity 14. Slay Ride 15. Trial Run 16. Wish You Well 17. Decider 18 ...

... on my Mind H-Hammett, Dashiell Maltese Falcon I-Irving, Washington The Legend of Sleepy Hollow J-James, Henry The Turn of the Screw K-King, Stephen Carrie L-Levin, Ira The Stepford Wives M-Miller, Arthur The Crucible N-Nixon, Audrey Jennifer's Body O-Orwell, George Ani ...

... (999) Nellie Taft by Carl Sferrazza Anthony (999 and also President spouses) Worstward Ho! by Samuel Beckett (1001) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (1001) Currently reading: The Woman in White, Gone, A Case of Lone Star, and my ER book which showed up.

The Turn of the Screw is easily read in one sitting -- may be shorter even than Death in Venice

I think The Turn of the Screw counts as a novel, doesn't it? Are you speaking of Twain's Mysterious Stranger? It made quite an impression on me when I was a teen. Read it again a couple of weeks ago. Very good; abrupt ending. I also read The Loved One recently. Very very funny.

In chronological order: The Awakening by Kate Chopin The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Death in Venice by Thomas Mann Jacob's Ladder by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings found in Short Stories by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings -- though it's much longer than a short story. The Hour of the St ...

... Opera production. 6.15 Martin Handley in conversation with award-winning documentary maker and author John Bridcut. 6.30 The Turn of the Screw - Act 1. 7.25 Martin Handley and John Bridcut further explore the themes and composition of the opera, and Valentine Cunningham looks at Henry James's ...

... Opera production. 6.15 Martin Handley in conversation with award-winning documentary maker and author John Bridcut. 6.30 The Turn of the Screw - Act 1. 7.25 Martin Handley and John Bridcut further explore the themes and composition of the opera, and Valentine Cunningham looks at Henry James's ...

I really enjoyed The Innocents (1961), which was an adaptation of Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Very unsettling no matter what reading you subscribe to. Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) was less impressive but still fun. A wax museum sculptor is attacked and left ...

... to on audiobook while running an errand and eating meals during the Read-a-Thon. Not such a great choice for that. 3. The Turn of the Screw - Read during the 'Thon. Really enjoyed it, creepy storyline, and certainly kept me awake in the wee hours of the morning. 4. The Boy in the Dress ...

... Silksinger by Laini Taylor 123. A Season of Gifts by Richard Peck 124. The Broken Teaglass by Emily Arsenault 125. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 126. Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay 127. Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention-Impaired Reader's Guide to the World's Best Playwrig ...

... the wife seems to be possessed. The descriptions of the possession are eery and disturbing - the obvious comparision being The Turn of the Screw. Besides the horror, the book contains a lot of big ideas, about God, evil and consumerism, and this makes the book more than just a spooky tale, ...

Finishing up James' The Turn of the Screw and also reading The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector and will return sometime this weekend to Life and Fate by Vasili Grossman.

Almost finished with Turn of the Screw, which I read many years ago, but which seemed appropriate for Halloween. I still have Portrait of a Lady sitting by my bedside, but may first read The Aspern Papers, which sounds intriguing.

Belva, I have just been listening to The Turn of the Screw, a very dramatic ghost story, and enjoyed it. After reading The Golden Bowl which was his last novel and very dense and difficult I too would have given up on him. On the other hand his earlier work, IMO, is a pleasure to read.

... after that. This was his last novel. I prefer his earlier works because they are so much easier to understand and enjoy. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I listened to Susannah York reading this very dramatic ghost story. Shall read The American next.

... This was his last novel. I prefer his earlier works because they are so much easier to understand and enjoy. 175. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I listened to Susannah York reading this very dramatic ghost story.

I shall listen to The Turn of the Screw by Henry James this month.

21/125. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James A young governess receives a position in which she will look after a girl and, when he is home from school, a boy without contacting their guardian uncle at all. The governess is nervous and sleep-deprived, but Flora and Miles seem to be perfect ...

43. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Category: Lost Book Club A young governess receives a position in which she will look after a girl and, when he is home from school, a boy without contacting their guardian uncle at all. The governess is nervous and sleep-deprived, but Flora ...

The American, The Ambassadors are quite good, and The Turn of the Screw and Aspern Papers too, but I would still go with Portrait of a Lady. Ownership? We don't need no stinking ownership! We have Project Gutenberg! :)

... At first I though maybe it was because it was more novella length without the time to really set up the atmosphere, but The Turn of the Screw was a novella and the atmosphere was skillfully built up to grab the reader and hold him breathless. It may have been that my problem was that I had ...

#173 But it wasn't just The Turn of the Screw. It was What Maisie Knew that really turned me in to a Henry James "avoider" (if that is a word!). If I don't like an author after reading three stories (well, it's really one story, half of a story and quarter of a story) by him, I think it is ...

I'm reading the 1966 Norton Critical Edition of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 1. Where did you get this book? A tag sale 2. How much did it cost you? What is the price on the book? 50 cents (I think) and $1.85 3. Why did you pick this book to read NOW? Becau ...

... should start on the mountainous stack of unfinished library books next. #165, don't give up on Henry James. I hated The Turn of the Screw, but Portrait of a Lady's really good.

... reading it for the first time). At the risk of sounding like a total dumbo I'd have to say I couldn't make head or tail of Turn of the Screw. I read it some six years ago. Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers came in one book. I read the first story and half of the second one and I ...

In addition to The Snow Geese, I started Turn of the Screw last night and also plan to crack Life and Fate today or tomorrow. Been awhile since I've had multiple bookgasms.

... advice-- really! I managed to mooch a copy of Washington Square and already own a book of short stories that include The Turn of the Screw. I think I'll start with those two and then move on to The American and The Golden Bowl-- mostly b/c I already own them. Thanks to all!

If you start with Turn of the Screw, you could follow up by watching the fantastic opera by Benjamin Britten!

... you go, diagnosis over the internet. ;) Belva, I've read a couple of Henry James novel(la)s - Portrait of a Lady and The Turn of the Screw. I read Turn of the Screw a long time ago, so can't recall it all that well, but I did rather like Portrait of a Lady although it was ...

... "short" story ever written. ("Short," that is, by Jamesean standards.) Start out with that, and then for a ghost story read The Turn of the Screw. You can go on to longer works later, but I don't want to start you out with something like The Golden Bowl or the very under-rated sjmccreary in 999 Challenge : ladyc72385: 999 challenge (Oct 3, 2009, 8:13pm)

#105 I just ordered The Turn of the Screw from the library for my son, who is on a classic gothic/horror kick right now. Maybe I'll have a look at it myself before it has to go back!

American classics: Henry James, The Turn of the Screw A merry group of young people at a house party start telling ghost stories, but the spookiest one of all is the tale of a young governess sent to care for two small children at Bly, an English country estate. At first, the (unnamed) ...

... thanks for the recommendations. Actually, I've planned to read a few classic horror stories for the month of October, and Turn of the Screw will be one of those as well. But as Portrait of a Lady seems to be so highly recommended, I'm making a note to pick it up when I go to the library on M ...

... Square is a fairly quick, easy read. Daisy Miller is even shorter, but I think less accomplished. Rather than re-reading The Turn of the Screw might I recommend Portrait of a Lady?

I'm going to be rereading The Turn of the Screw, which I first read for a college class a few years ago. I have the Norton Critical Edition, and like a good former English major I'm looking forward to reading some of the essays about it too. If I have enough time this month, I'll try a second ...

I've read a few Henry James novels before What Maisie Knew is great and The Turn of the Screw is ideal for anyone wanting a seasonal read. I'm downloading The Wings of the Dove from itunes as I type, only 95p! Not sure I'll manage to listen to it all as its 20hrs in length!

Hmm, maybe I'll give Turn of the Screw a run. Sounds like a good October read.

... stuff can be impenetrable. I loved, loved, loved Portrait of a Lady, and Washington Square was good too. I also liked Turn of the Screw, but it's a bit more difficult. However, there are lots of online resources on that one to help you along. Also, it makes a good creepy Halloween read. ...

... The Riddle of the Sands 779 The Wings of the Dove 780 Heart of Darkness 781 The Hound of the Baskervilles 789 The Turn of the Screw 790 The War of the Worlds on Mount TBR 794 Dracula

Funnily enough had some discussion on this in my 50 book thread prompted by Engleby by Sebastian Faulks. Turn of the Screw is meant to be an unreliable narrator book but I've not read it myself.

I read The Turn of the Screw and Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde last year for Halloween. I enjoyed both of them. I'm loving the discussion on Dracula--I also read that one recently. I now have an annotated edition and if I finish the other books I'm planning for October I'll pull it out and ...

... and Frankenstein, for that matter. I'm going to try to get to some of them in the next few weeks. And I might add The Turn of the Screw into the mix, as well.

... - Not as much reading, still working on Liberal Facism, and on a long vacation (NM, AZ, CA, OR, WA, ID, UT) this month. 1. The Turn of the Screw Not my favorite. I think if you want to read a spooky century ghost story go for Poe or Bronte. I have liked his other books better. 2. Lost In Trans ...

Thanks for your comments, charbutton and tomcatMurr. I'm afraid to say I was disappointed in The Turn of the Screw. I didn't expect to be, and when I went along to my book group's discussion of it, I held back, thinking that everyone else would have thought it a masterpiece - whereas, in fact, ...

Thanks for your comments, charbutton and tomcatMurr. I'm afraid to say I was disappointed in The Turn of the Screw. I didn't expect to be, and when I went along to my book group's discussion of it, I held back, thinking that everyone else would have thought it a masterpiece - whereas, in fact, ...

50. Daisy Miller, Henry James (category 4) ** Quite a contrast to The Turn of the Screw, and I know which one I preferred. (Not this one.) I generally find books concerning a conflict of manners horribly dull, which is one of the reasons I've never read Jane Austen and never intend to, but for ...

... Post Number 2 A little review of my 2009 reading to date: 61. through #Whatever listed in Post No. 2 below 60. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 59. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King 58. Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow 57. I Feel Bad About My Neck Nora Ephr ...

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James OK, if they made you re-instate your English Major status every few years by reading something revered yet wretched, this one would qualify me to keep my badge. My husband is on a gothic/horror/ghost story kick, and as an old English Major himself, ...

#39. I'm not reading this post yet, because I'm not finished with the book myself. (Got sidetracked by The Turn of the Screw.

... Alias Grace, it has been difficult to commiserate much with the emotional problems of characters in period novels (from The turn of the screw to Les liaisons dangereuses). Most people throughout history have worked hard to feed, clothe, and support some kind of aristocracy. The least ...

Turn of the Screw by Henry James

BOOK 51: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (book club - Julianne's choice) A young woman is employed as governess to two children living in the country. At first her charges seem perfect but she ...

33: Henry James: The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller

I've just finished The Turn of the Screw for my book group! I thought it was a skillfully constructed thriller.

Coming up: In fiction, I've just started reading The Turn of the Screw for my book group. I have a book to review which I can't say too much about yet, and I have got hold of a copy of Netherland by Joseph O'Neill, which I am looking forward to reading tremendously. In ...

... The Warden, The Eustace Diamonds, Sarah's Quilt, Doomsday Book - Willis, Queste, Fear Nothing - own, The Turn of the Screw, something by Terry Pratchett, Cybele's Secret, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Princess of the Midnight Ball, Lireal, The Burning Bridge, 39 Clu ...

... loved the first half, hated the second half 903. Agnes Grey 904. Jane Eyre My most fav read ever 789. The Turn of the Screw Great and short 790. The War of the Worlds 792. What Maisie Knew Very good 794. Dracula Like Frankenstein not as great as I thought it'd be ...

I was going to suggest The Collector but Jodyreadseverything beat me to it. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James would also make a good discussion for a book group.

... by Thomas M. Disch 11. Animal Farm by George Orwell 12. The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks 13. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 14. The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler 15. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 16. Gifts by Ursula K. Le Gu ...

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>64, Murr, I have The Turn of the Screw but - and this is kind of a weak excuse - but my copy is really old and falling apart with small print, so it's hard for me to get into it. I did see a really good old film version of it, which only increased my interest in reading it. Maybe I can get a ...

... in the brain, and the filter doesn't quite work properly when selecting between them! Fanny, have you read Henry James's The Turn of the Screw? Totally creepy, at least to me. What's the Arabic exam for?

81- The turn of the screw Argh! Well, this was arduous... I mostly kept reading because I was curious about all the fuss. 2.5/5

... on a Train by Highsmith, Patricia Sight for Sore Eyes by Rindell, Ruth The Scold's Bridle by Walters, Minette The Turn of the Screw by James, Henry Collectors by Griner, Paul The Running Woman by Carlon, Patricia The Land of Laughs by Carroll, Jonathan A Simple Plan by Sco ...

Picked up while tag saling this weekend: Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition) Dicey's Song by Cynthia Voigt and And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Said purchases have finally prompted me to double up books on the shelves, which has made me realize I actually have more ...

Mmmm, decisions, decisions... I think it's going to be Turn of the screw next. Got it last month at a yard sale for 50 cents.

... Neil (F) The Sandman: Fables and Reflections 3 Hart, Carolyn G. (M) Death on Demand 3 James, Henry (fic) The Turn of the Screw 3 Lippman, Laura (m) Baltimore Blues 4 Maron, Margaret (M) The Bootlegger's Daughter 4 Maron, Margaret (M) Southern Discomfort 4 Page, Kathe ...

... Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth 10. The Poets Guide to the Birds 11. Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin 12. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 13. Mothers and Shadows by Marta Traba 14. Floridays by Don Blanding 15. The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin 16. The Last ...

156. Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I was so confused by this little book that I had to go on sparknotes.com and read the analysis! At the end I just kind of sat there goin...wha? So what actually HAPPENED? Apparently, that's the point. Sparknotes said that James was being manipulative- that ...

I tried What Maisie Knew and didn't get very far. Then I tried an audio of The Turn of the Screw which was excellent. I'm now listening to Washington Square and I can't wait to get back into the car to listen to the next chapter. I find that with difficult writers it's easier for me to ...

... Since then I've found James to be one of the most daunting authors to suggest himself to my TBR lists. I've since read The Turn of the Screw and Washington Square, and survived to talk about it, so when I saw this beautiful edition of A Portrait of a Lady at a used bookshop last year, I ...

Rereads: (changed the category 10/21/09) 1. 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff 2. Turn of the Screw by Henry James 3. Blackbringer by Laini Taylor 4. Castle Roogna by Piers Anthony 5. Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes 6. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 7 ...

... Late Era HJ. Daisy Miller got me hooked. I was in high school and I loved the style, all mandarin and nuanced. Turn of the Screw confused the hell out of me. Good enough for a reread. I see HJ's influence in everyone from Graham Greene, Nabokov, and Proust Re: POAL, it ...

Finished "Agnes Grey" (Anne Bronte) this morning. Next up: a couple of shorter Henry James novels: "The Turn of the Screw" and "The Aspern Papers", published in one volume along with two short stories.

... Mike Tidwell 19. Humpty Dumpty in Oakland, Philip K. Dick 20. This Earth of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer 21. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James 22. Child of All Nations, Pramoedya Ananta Toer 23. The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain 24. Ubik, Philip K. Dick 25. ...

32: Turn of the Screw by Henry James - this book had been staring at me for ages. After reading the intro, I was really excited to get to reading. Besides Gift of the Magi, I don't recall reading any other James. The writing I felt was superb but the story wasn't particularly scary and I actually ...

... group. I expect this will take me awhile. It wasn't my favorite book 20+ years ago but I want to try it again. 22. The Turn of the Screw and 23. The Lesson of the Master by Henry James together in one volume. 211 pgs, library 24. Home For Christmas and 25. All I Want For Chr ...

18. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

... get it! Gas costs money! :P But TCPL finally got a copy, which I requisitioned. The murder mystery has much in common with Turn of the Screw and other nineteenth-century detective novels. The creepy country house, an eccentric family, malicious children, a governess in way over her head.. ...

... ews. I'll definitely pass your words of wisdom in #38 on to my sister who is currently contemplating reading Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. I will also be adding Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman to the very top of my TBR pile based solely on your wonderfully descriptive review in #83. ...

I'm on the third or fourth chapter of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, which I'm enjoying so much! It reminds me of The Turn of the Screw, with the grand old house and mysterious governesses and overall creepiness. Unfortunately, returning to it must be put on hold until I finish (and write a ...

... Wake. 23) What is your favorite novel?Look Homeward, Angel 24) Play?The Innocents (an adaptation of The Turn of the Screw), probably from being cast as one of the kids back in the Middle Ages. 25) Poem?”The force that through the green fuse drives the flower” ...

... for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson Books that were just ok Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Emma by Jane Austen (Took 3 months to read!)

... on.com/images/P/1580491618.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg> This one I read/reread for a course I'm teaching in the Fall. Turn of the Screw is Henry James's most famous ghost story. Set on an English estate, Bly, the narrator has been hired as governess for two young orphans, Miles and Flora. ...

... my library on LT but I've been thinking of downsizing. But it is so hard for me to part with any of my books. Book #9 Turn of the Screw by Henry James - A really good read. It actually made me think of a M. Night Shyamalan movie. The story had a building suspense and a sense of mystery.

... about Last and First Men, it is just a dense read. It is not really interesting to me but I will finish it. I read The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, thanx for listing it. Through the first half of the book I thought to myself, "This book is not scary at all" but then my husband ...

... Here are some on their list: The Exorcist by William peter Blatty The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Ghost Stories of M. R. James The Shining by Stephen King The Stand by Stephen King Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin I Am Legen ...

"Oh, the little lady doesn't remember. She never heard or knew." The Turn of the Screw by Henry James "Then you didn't undress at all?"

... is part two. Ticker moved to Part 3 Here 60. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 59. The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King 58. Homer and Langley by E. L. Doctorow 57. I Feel Bad About My Neck Nora E ...

... I have read the following 1001 books: 1. Fables of Aesop 2. Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho 3. Henry James: Turn of the Screw 4. Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha The best by a mile would be Siddhartha though ever since I started sorta kinda focusing on those 1001 Books I must ...

I just finished The Turn of the Screw. After I read a review that told me how to read it, the book was much better. The reviewer suggested reading it like Captain Kirk. It helped.

I gave up on The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It's a short little book, but that man loved his prepositional phrases a little too much. Half the time I couldn't even figure out what the sentence was saying and had to go back and reread it.

22. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Don't know quite what to make of this one. Psychological drama? Ghost story? Enjoyed the read; a book one needs to think about.

I finished Haunting of Hill House last year and loved it. Now I am reading The Turn of the Screw. It is very disturbing.

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... - if you're into old-fashioned yet spooky ghost stories involving haunted houses. Not exactly horror but very disturbing is The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Personally, I'm a huge fan of H.P. Lovecraft but he might come across a bit too old-fashioned - he uses lots of adjectives, his ...

Thanks for the input on Henry James. I have put a volume on hold at the library that has both Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw in it.

... really know what was going to happen, only saw bits of the film. I'd recommend it. Have finished The Satanic Verses, The Turn of the Screw and The House at Riverton. It was good to just chill out and read a good yarn with Riverton, I have another book by the same author on my TBR ...

... The Satanic Verses now, still wondering where the book will end up, and have read The Aspern Papers (in a copy of The Turn of the Screw).

... group. I expect this will take me awhile. It wasn't my favorite book 20+ years ago but I want to try it again. 22. The Turn of the Screw and 23. The Lesson of the Master by Henry James together in one volume. 211 pgs, library

... to other works of fiction, including The Aspern Papers. Imagine my joy when I found that I had it at home in a copy of The Turn of the Screw, so will bump it up the list.

I love Henry James. I'm happy to see you liked The Turn of the Screw!

#22 - The Turn of the Screw by Henry James - *****

I finished The Turn of the Screw, which was wonderful! What an ending! I am currently reading Dreams From My Father by Barack Obama and listening to King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.

I finished The Turn of the Screw and I have begun listening to King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard.

Listening to The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

March is coming in like a lamb around here in upstate NY....... I am in New England listening to The Turn of the Screw and in St. Petersburg with Poor Folk.

I am listening to The Turn of the Screw and reading Poor Folk.

I just started listening to The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

Just finished listening to The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham and I am about to start listening to The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, and continue reading Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

... class. I only took the literature section, but we read some great books: Plainsong, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Turn of the Screw, Watership Down... It's too bad English classes at some many schools were a let down...

21. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James This book annoyed me. Although the book was short, there were too many words, funny words and annoying words mixed together. It took me about 80 pages to get into the rhythm of the writing but by then the book was almost finished and I no longer ...

I think The Turn of the Screw is more interesting psychologically than as a scary story. I guess that's probably true of most of James' work.

12. The turn of the screw - Henry James This novel disappointed me. I heard it was amazing and very scary, but it wasn't. I didn't think it was bad though, the book just didn't live up the expactations.

... Christie And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie The Penguin Who Knew Too Much by Donna Andrews The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

... by Wilkie Collins The Man Who Lost Himself by Robyn Annear The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Black Swine in the Sewers of Hempstead: Beneath the Surface of Victorian Sensationalism by Thomas Boyle Not all at once, mind ...

... either love or learn from. And I still struggle with giving up on a book I've started--but I'm getting better! I reread Turn of the Screw last year and loved it both times I read it. I don't remember reading Wings of the Dove and I know I have not read Portrait of a Lady--that is one I ...

... expect when I started the book. The back cover compares Dinesen/Blixen to Henry James, and I must admit I have yet to read The Turn of the Screw or any similar works. The gothic aspect was definitely more subtle than I expected, but it's definitely there in these sometimes spooky, often sad (th ...

I may have to give Turn of the Screw a second look. I also have a volume of "ghost stories" by HJ. While not a minimalist -- or any -ist for that matter -- I appreciate a well-crafted sentence in a well-written story. (How often do you get both of those? Especially these days.) From the ...

... like Washington Square or Portrait of a Lady. If you want to jump into the deep end, go for The Golden Bowl. The Turn of the Screw is a technical masterpiece - it is very difficult to create an effective ghost story that may not even be a ghost story without coming clean to the ...

To be honest, I liked Daisy Miller better than Turn of the Screw, which I found confusing. I see James as an American Decadent, like a WASPy Huysmans. Then again, I'm a sucker for purple prose and Pretty White People with Problems(TM).

I read a couple Henry James novellas in high school -- Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller -- and I'm looking to dip back in to the works of the Master. Plus nothing personifies literary snobbishness than the works of Henry James. Am I right? (Probably tied with Nabokov and Waugh in that ...

... the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be." -- Turn of the Screw

... Firmly established Joseph O'Connor as one of my favourite authors. 5. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Bret Harte 6. The Turn of the Screw - Henry James 7. Freedom the Wolfe Tone Way - Sean Cronin Current non-fiction book I'm reading. 8. The Last Templar - Raymond ...

My favorite was Turn of the Screw followed by Atonement.

... my winter session class which was extremely hectic (three weeks for Poe, Hawthorne's short stories, Emily Dickinson, The Turn of the Screw and Look Homeward Angel) and am just starting my spring semester so hopefully I'll be able to catch up before the February deadline!

... Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde, 2008 28. The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1980s 29. The Yellow Wallpaper, 2007 30. The Turn of the Screw, 2007

... Men by Ian Rankin From Audible: Touchstone by Laurie R. King Bones by Jonathan Kellerman The Turn of the Screw by henry James Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. There's a short Introduction (PPC edition) with a Thomas Hardy citation and I gotta admit, so far I'd second that one: 'a ponderously warm manner of saying nothing in infinite sentences'. Man, that guy was throwing in more commas (and by that I mean relative ...

... 03/03/09 3. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovery 29/03/09 4. Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace 5. Henry James - The Turn of the Screw 14/06/09 6. 7. 8. 9.

... ndo 13. Siddhartha 14. The Age of Innocence 15. Ethan Frome 16. Hound of Baskervilles 17. The Awakening 18. Turn of the Screw 19. War of the Worlds 20. The Invisible Man 21. Dracula 22. The Island of Dr. Moreau 23. The Time Machine 24. The Yellow Wallpaper 25. ...

... Thomas Hardy, 1960's 62. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy, 2006 63. Quo Vadis, Sienkiewicz, 1960's 64. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James, 1960's 65. The Awaking, Kate Chopin, 1980's 66. *Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad, 1970's (Disagree with removal) 67. Sister Carrie, Th ...

I've read my first two books for the challenge, The Illuminator by Brenda Rickman Vantrease and the story The turn of the screw by Henry James! I really liked The Illuminator; interesting and sometimes harsh story. It made me feel glad I live in this century. Hopefully Vantrease's ...

Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel The Cat Who Walked Through Walls by Robert Heinlein The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Fixer by Bernard Malamud Assembling California by John McPhee

... (TBR) 6. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (Completed 26 March) 7. Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien (TBR) 8. Turn of the Screw by Henry James (Completed 1 Feb) 9. The Stand by Stephen King (Completed 11 May) LOST links I think the character 'Hurley' in Lost

88 The turn of the Screw Henry James The verbosity of this story made it far longer than it needed to be so I'm including it in my challenge. The story is eerie and odd. It was almost painful to wade through, at this rate I'll never bond with "classics".

... of the Mohicans - F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night - Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises - Henry James, The Turn of the Screw - Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye - John Steinbeck, East of Eden My plan is not to overlap, and to stick with books I haven't read before (hence ...

92F.) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James A gothic ghost story, full of allusions and implications. I read a lot of reviews of this after I finished, just to see what others thought, and I am stumped; was there really any question as to whether the ghosts were real? I never doubted it, ...

... category. Some other shorter classics might be Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, or The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I enjoyed all of those, as well as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Candide by Voltaire is also short and supposed to be funny as is ...

Classical fiction 1. Henry James - The turn of the screw (read) 2. Charlotte Brontë - Villette 3. Anne Brontë - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 4. Jane Austen - Persuasion 5. Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist 6. Oscar Wilde - The picture of Dor ...

Message #123. Thanks for your comments re. The Turn of the Screw. While I've heard this book mentioned often, I've never read it...on to the tbr pile it goes.

#3 karenmarie If you pick Turn of the Screw you can start with two books. I read it Halloween night and it took me less than 2 hours--and I'm not a terribly fast reader! I did enjoy it--even though this genre is not a favorite of mine. 39 Steps is relatively fast also--I really liked ...

... ghter Nonfiction Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War Epidemiology Justinian's Flea Ghost Stories The Turn of the Screw Mysteries by Authors I've Never Read Before The 39 Steps Historical Fiction Master and Commander Just Because Cranford Redbud Bookclu ...

This is a new one on me---Machicolated---from Henry James the turn of the screw a machicolation if an opening between the corbels of a parapet for discharging missiles upon assailants below. Watch out if you are near any castles. LOL

I finished Turn of the Screw and am now reading The House of the Spirits.

I returned The Uncommon Reader and Turn of the Screw to the library today, and then sent out for PBS, A Hunger Like No Other and Child of the Prophecy.

... have missed this thread somehow ... plenty I haven't read yet here, but of those I have, I nudge Notes from Underground, The Turn of the Screw (I haven't read The Aspern Papers) and The Invention of Morel. Bioy Casares was a close associate of Borges and his reputation tends to suffer by ...

I just finished Turn of the Screw by Henry James which I really liked. My first time reading anything by him.

#85 Turn of the Screw by Henry James An eerie ghost story of a governess who must save her two wards from two malevolent ghosts of former servants at a country estate. All is not as it seems though. I liked this and found it suprisingly readable and fast paced. 3.5/5 IrishHolger in 999 Challenge : IrishHolger's 999 list (Nov 15, 2008, 1:52pm)

... I can add at least another 9 to that list 1. Fables of Aesop 2. Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho 3. Henry James: Turn of the Screw 4. Hermann Hesse: Siddhartha 5. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: The Yellow Wallpaper 6. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights 7. 8. 9.

I'm now reading The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

I'm now reading The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

... go for Cloud Atlas and Dorian Gray. Even of the ones I've read that don't make it to the nudge stage )Queen Leona, Turn of the Screw, Gulliver's Travels) none os so terrible they deserve a non-nudge. You've got several weeks of great reading ahead!

... it a back-handed nudge. Ihaven't read The Aspern Papers, but if you're in the mood for a good psychological ghost story, The Turn of the Screw is terrific short read.

... in my catalog and I will post it on my 75 thread at the end of this week.--or maybe sooner if I have time. When you get The Turn of the Screw be sure to have plenty of other things to read that day--I read it easily in one evening--you will probably read it in an hour or less! It's short.

#107 MusicMom: I have put The Turn of the Screw on hold at my local library, so I can get my feet wet with a little of Henry James. Thanks for the recommendation!

It took me a minute--but I sort of figured that! BTW I enjoyed The Turn of the Screw--a nice short read after dark on Halloween!

#105 alcottacre If you want to add Henry James to your "author's I've read list" I highly recommend The Turn of the Screw. It is really a novella--my edition was 145 pages long. It isn't typical of the ones of his I remember reading and loving many years ago because it is a "horror" ...

... and I always get more from her books when I reread them--which I will be doing with this one also. 83. James, Henry: The Turn of the Screw (BC 146) I remember seeing the movie many years ago and being scared but not sure at the end what to think about the ghostly events. Now that I’v ...

Today I'm reading The Turn of the Screw in honor of Halloween.

I brought home from the library The Uncommon Reader and Turn of the Screw to read for Halloween.

Turn of the Screw is going to be my "read" for Halloween. :-)

... was the nods it gave to other books like Rebecca and Jane Eyre which I had already loved, and it made me want to read Turn of the Screw as well. If you've read any of these books and enjoyed them, then you'll like this one too and will appreciate the similarities.

... of Halloween. (And maybe the other J.D. Robb novella I have: Interlude in Death. I'm planning--if time allows--The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, also for Halloween. The next section of Kristin Lavransdatter II: The Wife I'm also reading In the Heart of the Seas which I ...

251 - I second that. Loved Wings of the Dove. I'll go with another James - The Turn of the Screw. Surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

... 4. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey 5. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 6. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 8. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9. Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Happy Birthday to You! by Dr. Seuss Two by Two by Barbara Reid Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee

I'm reading Coraline by Neil Gaiman and about to start listening to The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Perfectly spook for the time of year!

There's Turn of the Screw by Henry James, if you haven't already read it. If story collections are okay (rather than novelizations) I'd recommend Ambrose Bierce's ghost stories (pretty sure you can find these at Gutenberg.org) and F. Marian Crawford wrote some great ones, too. My favorites ...

... and afford to travel a bit ;- I do like James and Wharton -- especially his Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors and The Turn of the Screw. Her House of Mirth is wonderful in both novel and film versions (one of the assigned texts in my Women and Lit course) -- I also loved Summer ...

... Game Theory in Everyday Life by Len Fisher French Lessons: Adventures with Knife, Fork, and Corkscrew by Peter Mayle Turn of the Screw by Henry James Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Madeline Wickham The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman

... category down. I. Classics 1. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 2. Jane Eyre 3. Orlando 4. Turn of the Screw 5. Gulliver's Travels 6. Frankenstein 7. Siddhartha 8. War of the Worlds Half of my categories are now finished. Yeah!

... hand press, 1923-1977, by John Barr Traces of the Brush: the Art of Japanese Calligraphy, by Louise Boudonnat The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James The Lost Stradivarius. bu John Meade Falkner Secrets of the Camera Obscura, by David Knowles

Finished Turn of the Screw. Another 1 day reader.

#47. Turn of the Screw by Henry James Why I Chose It: 1,001 Books You Must Read What a strange strange story. I seem to be reading a lot of them lately. Another shorter tale of a governess coming to a house that has a spooky history and trying to save the lives of herself and the children. E ...

... / 50 books. 90% done! Currently Reading: Orlando Knocked Out by My Nunga Nungas Turn of the Screw Gulliver's Travels

I'm almost done with Jack and Jill and Orlando. I'm planning on starting Turn of the Screw and Gulliver's Travels through Daily Lit. I have a lot in my TBR pile, so after that it's hard choosing what to read.

22. Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I REALLY wanted to like this book...and its not that I DIS-liked it, but I think I had built it up too much. I suppose if I had read this book when it was first published, it could have easily been a favorite.

... Garner 2. Marshall University, a Campus History Series selection by James E. Casto. I'm also still working on: 1. Turn of the Screw, which I just cannot get into for some reason 2. Memoirs of a Geisha 3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

... rbervilles 47. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 48. The Yellow Wallpaper 49. Jude the Obscure 50. Dracula 51. The Turn of the Screw Well, as I am up to the 20th century now, I'll have a break. I'll probably add more later, as I tend to get a wee bit obsessive about these things! ...

... caught up with me, so I snagged a copy from my nephew. I'm enjoying it so far. I'm also reading two chapters a night of Turn of the Screw. I'm over halfway through each book.

... but as I read it in the original German, it should qualify as a T ;-) Other brilliant Ts are Things fall apart and The Turn of the Screw.

... - Eliot We - Zamyatin The Tempest - Shakespeare The Castle - Kafka The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake The Turn of the Screw - Henry James Brideshead Revisited - Waugh

... of books), sometimes you will find real affordable treasures. From one seller recently, I got pristine copies of Nana, The Turn of the Screw, and Stendahl's Le Rouge et Noir, all for $77.00 US. Those prices aren't much higher than I have paid for some Heritage Press books in bookstores. ...

... And that's not even mentioning the other books that I've had out from the library for a year and a day (After the Quake, The Turn of the Screw, and The Double) or The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which I never finished, not because I didn't like it but because such a big book made up largely ...

If the ending of the Turn of the Screw wasn't odd and somewhat ambiguous, it wouldn't generate all sorts of great conversation and all those critical reviews. :-) (At least that's how I remember it--I've read a lot of other things since then).

Just finished The Turn of the Screw. I actually enjoyed it, though the long, convoluted sentences were sometimes a bit daunting. Lots of allusions to literary works and historical personages and events & lots of symbolism, most of which I think I got, but will someone please explain to me what ...

44. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. LT. 7 stars. I read this in one sitting also; it too was pretty darn intense. The long, convoluted sentences were a bit daunting, but I just couldn't stop reading until I found out just what was going on. Then, at the very last line, I was, like, "Hu ...

... talk that I really liked here ) 78. (107) The Turn of the Screw - Henry James (451pp) This was in a collection with 6 other 'nouvelles'. I was curious to read this as last year I saw a movie adaptation (well, ...

... from me with Moby-Dick. Ironically enough, there are some short book that take a long time to read. Like Nausea or The Turn of the Screw or Heart of Darkness. Billy Budd is starting to look like one of those deceptively short novels. -- M1001

Regarding The Turn of the Screw, maybe the point is that there are no ghosts, but that the governness is so full of class, sexual, (and probably other) anxieties that she convinces herself that there are. Of course if the story didn't work for you it didn't work for you, but . . . for what it's ...

16) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James--Eh. It got kind of creepy near the end (children who talk to ghosts are always creepy), but the last sentence sort of ruined it. Too melodramatic. Also, I found the governess highly annoying. I may be a simpleton, but if a ghost story isn't scary, ...

... pile, and I'm wondering if I should read more Henry James before reading it. So far I've only read Washington Square and Turn of the Screw, and I own the movie The Wings of the Dove. Does it matter if I don't know more about James's work?

Heart of Darkness I didn't like at all. Turn of the Screw was a painfully dull "ghost" story. And I agree with the Virginia Woolf comment above. Started a few of her books, never made it past the first few paragraph. The effort to understand what she was writing in each sentence was more ...

... with the similes and metaphors! ~ but somehow it works for me. Just before I started this, I tried to listen to Turn of the Screw, which I've been wanting to read for a long time. Unfortunately, the reader's voice made me want to stick an ice pick in my ears, so I had to give it up ...

... "Beast in the Jungle" is one of my favorite stories, and I love James overall (though I admit I feel like I need to reread Turn of the Screw before I can really get a grip on it. Anyhow, I was just curious....

33. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. 1001. Creepy, wonderful story of psychological deterioration.

read a LOT over the weekend - finished the turn of the screw, then the third man, like water for chocolate - which I loved, the color purple- beautiful, 2 books by hanif kureishi which I think I must have read before and last but not least youth by coetzee. this morning on the train I ...

I'll probably be reading Turn of the Screw this month, or maybe The Picture of Dorian Gray. Whichever one piques my fancy after I'm done reading what I'm reading now.

... with tremendous insight, and the prose is fluid -- eloquent. I can see why references have been made to Jane Eyre and The turn of the Screw, though I will go a step further and compare it to Jennifer Lash's, 'Blood Ties' in it's thought-provoking look at the consequences of child ...

... and will someday go back and reread it, but what I did "get" I enjoyed. If that makes sense. :) For April, either Turn of the Screw or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Or maybe both.

8 Victorian-Era 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 Elizabet ...

... theory I'm still working on The Dubliners too, though it's been a few days since I picked it up. Oh yeah, and I grabbed The Turn of the Screw, since I started it as an audiobook and was rather disappointed when it started skipping and I had to quit partway through. Pickwick Papers has ...

... Pendulum by Umberto Eco The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

... Pendulum, my audiobook is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and, I've started reading the copy of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw I acquired whilst in Rome. My short story collection is The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami.

... cover. Borri Books in Roma Termini train station also has a decent English language section, where I found a copy of The Turn of the Screw, published by an Italian company called Giunti, for a very reasonable €5.

I'm ploughing on with Foucault's Pendulum, which I'm just over half way through. I also picked up The Turn of the Screw while on holiday and, after loathing pretty much everything I've previously read by Henry James, am finding this reasonably tolerable. Now I'm back at work, I'm ...

... Ishiguro 4-5. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck 4-6. Kokoro, Natsume Soseki 4-7. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James 4-8. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks

... dollar bill from Red Goose Shoes. This morning I found an unused sheet of 32 cent dinosaur stamps in my husband's copy of The Turn of the Screw. I don't need to go to used bookstores to find oddities -- my own library is full of them! I had a roommate who swore that you could take any book at ...

The Turn of the Screw (#25) **** by Henry James 02/15/08 The Third Policeman **** by Flann O'Brien 02/17/08 Similar to Beckett but amusing and worth reading The Warden **½ by Anthony Trollope 02/19/08

... 5/13/08) 5) Metamorphoses by Ovid (finished 6/12/08) 6) Justine by the Marquis de Sade (finished 8/17/08) 7) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James (finished 11/13/08) 8) Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm (finished 12/30/08) Young adult 1) New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (finis ...

Just got The Turn of the Screw from the library and am very much looking forward to it! It's unabridged and read by Flo Gibson; I don't think I have heard her read before.

... for the days of more self-directed learning... On a positive side, school made me rack up my first book of the year: 1) The Turn of the Screw by Henry James To be honest, I thought it was an intriguing plot all but ruined by James' self-indulgent, lethargic prose style. It almost ...

... 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 bookseller's daughter to write her true life ...

... gripping. Very interesting writing style as well. Thoroughly enjoying it. Also have started Eat, Pray, Love, Turn of the Screw, and A Ship Made of Paper.

... a Salesman by Arthur Miller Frankestein by Mary Shelley Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Our Town by Thornton Wilder July * The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde ...

The Jolly Corner, The Beast in the Jungle or The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

... kell 2. Cecilia by Fanny Burney 3. My Antonia by Willa Cather 4. Hard Times by Charles Dickens 5. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 6. No Name by Wilkie Collins 7. The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins 8. The Monk by Matthew Lewis Edit: 8 ...

... its a book club choice or a bookring from a BookCrossing member. In January I have one of each so I know I'll be reading The Turn of the Screw and In the Country of Men. Otherwise, it could be any of the 450+ books on my shelves, but will probably be non-fiction to balance all that fiction ...

... thought of the book and why; thats how I write them too. I agree with your The Catcher in the Rye; but I actually found The Turn of the Screw a quick creepy little read.

In no particular order: American Psycho Emma Lolita Rebecca The Turn of the Screw

Have just started The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

I'm going to start reading The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Grrrr. Touchstones! Why do they never work?

... Writing out all 1100 would be quite troublesome. Basically in immediate line are: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk The Turn of the Screw by Henry James Youth by J.M. Coetzee The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde An Abundance of Katherines by John Green

Went to the library and got...: Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk Youth by J.M. Coetzee The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

... O'Connor 56. Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy 57. The Yellow Wallpaper, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 58. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James 59. Flower, by Irene N. Watts 60. Darkness at Noon, by Arthur Koestler 61. Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell ...

... Dorian Gray The Yellow Wallpaper The Island of Dr. Moreau Dracula The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds The Turn of the Screw The Killer Inside Me The Collector Interview With The Vampire The Shining American Psycho -- M1001

Sophie's Choice - Nicholas Maw The Turn of the Screw - Britten The Greek Passion - Martinu Faust - Gounod Eugene Onegin - Tschaikovsky Looking for books rather than plays, so no Shakespeare! ;-)

My book club met tonight on our October novel--The Turn of the Screw. Four out of the six people there actually read the book (one was too busy, and one never reads anything--not sure why she comes. Another person had read the book but was away sick). The woman who was too busy to read it had ...

I've done the same thing with my book club. This month we read the Turn of the Screw by Henry James. I'll find out how everyone liked it on Monday. If you want a really short one, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is only twenty-nine pages. But it really packs a ...

... In The Attic by Shel Silverstein The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen A Turn of The Screw by Henry James One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kessey

... the St. Petersburg and Moscow, and countryside in between, of Anna Karenina for somewhere in the English countryside of The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James.

... taking my time), so on to other things. I highly recommend it though--very creepy story. Next up is another creepy one: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It's my book club's selection for October.

... is free to make suggestions and talk up her books, and then we all vote. These are our selections for the year: 1. The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James (we decided to read a classic this year, and this won out over Bronte's Tenant of Wildfell Hall) 2. The Secret River, by Kat ...

59. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

... of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde The Time Machine The Island of Dr. Moreau The Invisible Man The War of the Worlds The Turn of the Screw (short book, but I didn't like it much) Heart of Darkness (short book but very dense reading) Nausea (short book but very dense reading) The Li ...

... a True History of Thirteen Respectable French and English Women accused of Unspeakable Crime, by Mary S. Hartman Turn of the Screw, by Henry James The Three Incestuous Sisters, by Audrey Niffenegger

... (but may or may not be laborious) include A Christmas Carol, Around the World in 80 Days, The Picture of Dorain Gray, The Turn of the Screw, Siddhartha, Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, Candide and the two Alice books. Hope that helps. Looking forward to hearing other people's ...

... Amber by Mark Gatiss so far this week and am currently catching up with one of those books I should've read years ago The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.

When I started this group a month ago, I had not really read any on the list. Last month I read The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. It was fine, but it was arduous for me to get through. It felt like I could cross out about 2/3 of the words and end up at a much clearer picture of what ...

... by Anthony Powell A BEND in the River by V S Naipaul JUMPERS by Tom Stoppard RUN, River by Joan Didion The TURN of the SCREW by Henry James

"It was as if now in my friend's own eyes Miss Jessel had again appeared." The Turn of the Screw Henry James

The turn of the screw is a masterpiece in terms of tension and narrative pace. The question of whether or not it is a ghost story I think is quite personal to each reader. The ghosts are there, they are present in the text. Whether you accept them as real or as figments of the mind of a sexaully ...

... 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 addition to the ones you've ...

... I do welcome more, if more are offered. I am finishing up 2 books that I am currently reading, and will begin with The Turn of the Screw for the sole reasons that 1-I have it on hand, and 2-someone listed it here as short and fairly easy to get through. It shouldn't take all that long, ...

... The Stranger/The Outsider) are easy too, and there's no shortage books analysing them in case you need help. :) The Turn of the Screw, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Great Gatsby, 1984 and The Yellow Wallpaper are all quite short and worth trying. Interview with the Vampire ...

I have always thought of The Turn of the Screw as a ghost story. I would have to read it (or listen to the audiobook) again, but I seem to recall that others see the ghosts too. Or am I wrong?

26. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James -A brilliant prototype for modern horror. I read this one while I stayed in the hospital with my wife, who was delivering our second born. avaland in Historical Fiction : Great modern reads set in the 19th century anywhere... (Jun 2, 2007, 6:17am)

... the beginnings of psychoanalysis... As some of the critical reviews mention, it's hard not to bring to mind books such as: The Turn of the Screw and The Yellow Wallpaper while reading this.

It drives me to distraction when I see Henry James' The Turn of the Screw described as...{brief interlude for googling}..."the quintessential ghost story," or some such nonsense, because though it may be a story with ghosts in it (or not), it is not a ghost story per se. (No-one ...

... of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. I'm not sure I'm going to like it, but I'll give it a shot. I'm also listening to The Turn of the Screw. I'd like to begin Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson this week. And of course, there's my never ending "to be read" stack.

... Master - Colm Toibin (11) The Known World - Edward P. Jones (12) We Are On Our Own - Miriam Katin (13) The Turn of the Screw - Henry James - which I am not counting as a whole book... Total Books: 12 Total Pages: 3,755 (42/day) Total Words: 1,279,424 (14,376/day) ...

Louis, glad to hear that about Angelica; there was a really great review in Publishers Weekly for it evoking The Turn of the Screw and I noted it down to check out later on in the store...

... till I finished. It comes billed as a Victorian ghost story, which it certainly is, but one that's more in the vein of The Turn of the Screw, where the suspense arises not from the threat posed by any malevolent spirits, but instead from the characters' disassociation from each other, their ...

... the development of the novel. As for the films being poor - what about "The Innocents", a very effective chiller based on The Turn of the Screw, or "The Heiress", based on Washington Square? James later said this about Trollope - "His great, his incontestable merit, was a complete ...

I have just finished Lolita by Nabokov and have started The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. So far I like it very much and it's a pretty quick read.

I have just finished Lolita by Nabokov and started The Turn of the Screw by Henry James.... Hmm, touchstones won't load. PS: >84: Wow, replying to a message that comes after mine. I guess you're right, they seem to load now. I have done it before, but sometimes I'm too impatient or ...

Diary, Mysterious Stranger, and Letters are Twain's later works, and the only Twain I really like. A lot of it was never completed, and even more went unpublished for a long time. Toward the end of his life, Twain became disillusioned with Christianity, and the brunt of his later work deals with ...

Congratulations for persevering with The Turn of the Screw, Concetta. I very rarely give up on books without finishing them, but I just couldn't read it. I even tried watching an old film version of it, but had to turn that off too!

Have some hope, Concetta! I just read The Turn of the Screw last November, and I was very disappointed. I don't know anything about those other two stories, but I do remember really enjoying Daisy Miller.

... several short stories by Henry James. I was really looking forward to reading these. I am into the first one, The Turn of the Screw and, I must say, I am STRUGGLING. I am really having a hard time following it all. I was going to do some forum reading, but I am afraid of possible ...

... good points to bring up to make me look smart?). Next month we are reading several stories by Henry James including The Turn of the Screw, Washington Square and others - I am really looking forward to it - I have not read anything by James and understand that he is brilliant (thank you, ...

Actually, everything I'm reading right now is on the list: Anna Karenina, The Plot Against America, Turn of the Screw and House of Leaves. I tried House of Leaves once before and became extremely annoyed with it, but I'm liking it a lot more this time around.

... a few of these on my 'please get me for Yule' list. Thank you so much, all of you! :o) Right now I'm finishing up The Turn of the Screw and I'm thinking that Henry James must have written this pretty early in his life. I'd love to slash and burn some of his more verbose sentences. LOL

... only heard of A Lantern in Her Hand because it's an oldie, but the rest are great big ?'s to me. I've read Beloved, The Turn of the Screw, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. You've got a nice selletion there. ...

... started taking an interest in the genre again. my list is: Floating Dragon The Stand Thinner Midnight The Turn of the Screw Rosemary's Baby Mr. Murder Misery Something Wicked This Way Comes Needful Things

1.In A Glass Darkly 2.Walpurgisnacht 3.Carmilla 4.Ghost Stories of an Antiquary 5.Dracula 6.The Turn Of The Screw 7.The Shining 8.The Murders in The Rue Morgue 9.Frankenstein 10.The Haunting of Hill House