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BarbaraJean
The Haunted and the Haunters | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent

Do you enjoy reading scary stories?

What types of stories are scariest to you—ghost stories, thriller, horror…?

Did you find this story particularly scary?

BarbaraJean I definitely don‘t read horror, and I‘m kind of a coward about scary stories. I do like to read spooky-ish books in October, but definitely spooky lite! I don‘t mind “thriller” stories, but horror is too much for me. And supernatural/demon possession stuff freaks me right the heck out. This one pushed the line for me as far as scary. Funny story: I read it during the day, because I didn‘t want to end up like LMM—too scared to turn out the light!⤵️ (edited) 2h
BarbaraJean (Cont‘d) I thought it was creepy, but not TOO scary, until I woke up in the middle of the night that night convinced I heard a voice speaking in my ear… 😱 2h
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BarbaraJean
The Haunted and the Haunters | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent

From the setup through to the end, did the plot work for you?

What did you think of the logical/theoretical explanation the narrator inserts before the final resolution of the story?

What did you think of the discovery at the end? Was the resolution satisfying to you?

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BarbaraJean
The Haunted and the Haunters | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead #LMMAdjacent

LMM often mentions Bulwer-Lytton as an author she enjoys. He‘s famous for the line: “It was a dark and stormy night” and has a bad-writing contest named after him! (www.bulwer-lytton.com/)

Did you like Bulwer-Lytton‘s writing style in this story? Why or why not?

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BarbaraJean
The Haunted and the Haunters | Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead: This week we‘re reading an #LMMAdjacent book—The Haunted & the Haunters by Edward Bulwer-Lytton—with a discussion on Saturday, Nov. 2nd. This is a shorter one: my Kindle edition is 68 pages. All are welcome—let me know if you‘re not tagged and you‘d like to be!

In the comments I‘ll add LMM‘s thoughts about this story⤵️

BarbaraJean “After I got home for keeps I read a perfectly harrowing ghost story. It was the most gruesome thing. I read it in bed and after I had finished it do you suppose I could get out of bed to put the light out? No!! …The story was Lytton‘s ‘The Haunters and the Haunted‘ and I can conscientiously recommend it.”
—LMM Complete Journals, Vol. 2 - June 2, 1902

I‘m planning to read it during daylight just to be safe. 😆
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TheAromaofBooks I don't usually read scary stories, so I'm a little terrified 😂 Also I'm only on chapter 12 of Seven Gables, but I am still plugging away! My word, NOTHING IS HAPPENING!!!! 😆 6d
BarbaraJean @TheAromaofBooks Haha—yeah, I‘m not much of a scary-story person either, and in re-reading LMM‘s comment I said: what was I thinking?! I‘m NOT reading it at night 🤣 And I think Seven Gables is the slowest burn ever. He even describes what happens in a very nothing-is-happening way 😏 6d
TheAromaofBooks I marked a sentence the other day where Hawthorne used SEVEN adjectives to describe someone in ONE SENTENCE 😂 6d
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Nicos
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The wanton Boy that kills the Fly
Shall feel the Spider‘s enmity.

🪰🕷️

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Jeg
The Red And The Green | Iris Murdoch
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I‘m not going to finish this. The writing is amazing and the descriptions just wonderful. However I find myself really having to concentrate to read it. Set me wondering if these great authors of fine literature will get read in the future. I heard that at an uni in the US literature students couldn‘t even read a whole book. So used to just reading a chapter to critique from high school. Never a whole book. 🤷🏻‍♂️. 🥲

Sace I have heard the same. In fact I was talking to an English teacher I work with and she was saying the same thing. Reading novels no longer seems to be the norm. Students read an entire Shakespeare play though. It‘s sad really. 2w
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bibliothecarivs
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Recent birthday acquisitions:

📖 Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life by Ralph Pite
📖 The Poetical Works of John Keats

#UniteAgainstBookBans and #LetUtahRead

bibliothecarivs 💿 L-R: Kaiser Chiefs, The Waterboys, Radiohead, The Cure, Black Sabbath 3w
Bookwomble Happy birthday! 🍰📚 3w
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Anna40
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Mehso-so

I don‘t think this has ever happened to me but I didn‘t enjoy any of the stories or perhaps I didn‘t get what kind of stories Swift wants to tell?England is the one I liked the most bc of its premise:a coast guard in Exmoor on his way to work in the early morning hours stops to help a driver gone off road because of a deer but how the story evolves&the ending were dissatisfying as I just don‘t understand what it‘s about.Well written but not for me

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andrew61
Winter Garden | Beryl Bainbridge
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Pickpick

A farcical story about a middle age man Douglas who tells his wife he is going to Scotland fishing but sets of on an artistic groups visit to Moscow with his lover the flamboyant actress Nina, who then appears to be permanently avoiding him. His journey around 1980s Russia with the other members and the authoritive olga makes for a strange tale of misadventures. Enjoyable, strange ending, as ever Bainbridge is a great storyteller but not my fave

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bibliothecarivs
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Recent acquisitions:

📖 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Selected): An Interlinear Translation (Revised and Enlarged) edited by Vincent F. Hopper
📖 Villette by Charlotte Brontë

#UniteAgainstBookBans #LetUtahRead