the book disease

[readingthedark]

So I have this issue with buying books. I need to take a break. The piles are getting insane again even though most of the books are boxed away. Here are the most recent purchases. I think I bought all of these on the same day about two weeks ago. I hope by listing them here, I will encourage others to check them out, but I also now have a list of

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[readingthedark]

Library? So do I. Enough for both of us too. DVDs, comics, CDs, and everything. But it has reached the point, which is actually been rare in my years of obsession, where there are books that I don't know I own and there are things that I'm dying to read that would take me hours to find. This state of chaos hasn't happened in a few years and it's time for Spring Cleaning.

[negothick]

I found the Sonser book a real disappointment. Your LJ posts have better content and clearer form than that book. The "Companion" is (like its companions, ha!) a mixed anthology of essays on different aspects of the Gothic. Some of them contain new and original combinations of critical material, many recycle stuff you knew ten years ago.

[readingthedark]

I'm through the first section of the Companion and I think that's why I'm considering it light reading. There's not much new or deep, but I like watching someone shuffle the ideas around. It's a mixed bag of rushed research, rehashings, and fast typing, but I do find merit in the entertainment value found by reviewing the old ideas through new fractures in the lenses.

Sonser's take on Lacan struck me as problematic and a bit ranty, so I might be on my way to disappointment. Conversely, I have a rather high threshold for both bizarre takes on Lacan and ranting. It can't be as weird as some of the "saunter through my mind while I tell you everything I've ever read or thought, oh, and the Gothics" texts I've read.

Some books merely serve to remind me that I'm not just fascinated by Gothic Literature, the authors, and its eras; I'm also captivated by how people choose to present and discuss the fiction, the authors, and the eras.

[sovay]

The Great Lover by Michael Cisco (I look forward to this one. I love Cisco's work and I'm hoping to go on a binge with this and some of his others.)

I want that one. We were going to do a book swap a while ago, but it fell down when I couldn't get copies of the book I wanted to swap him anymore.

[readingthedark]

What book did you want to swap with him? (At ReaderCon, I plan on handing him a piece of paper and just having him write a list of suggested reading for me. My towering and cavernous library certainly has many of his recommendations.)

[sovay]

What book did you want to swap with him?

We were going to swap The Great Lover for The Dybbuk in Love. That was how I found out that all rights to my books reside with Wildside, not Prime, and I'd have to purchase copies. This is one of the reasons I talk to Sean as little as I can afford now.

[readingthedark]

Ah. At least both books have "Love" in the title.