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Aug. 6th, 2007

[London] The book for september

As chosen via the carefully structured and intensively monitored bibliogothocratic selection and voting process (we tossed a coin to settle the tie on this one! ;), the book for September is...

Ann Radcliffe's "The Italian"
as nominated by

robot_mel

Proper gothic literature! [linky here] Any edition should do but the linked one here has tons of copies listed starting at 94p!

Next date: Sunday, 2nd September

Tags: london bibliogoths

May. 30th, 2007

ravenstoker

[london] - Long list for July's book

Greetings all,

Tis that time again - the long list approacheth! Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the vote, for it is a human number. It's number is...

Five positive votes and one optional anti-vote returned either to the mailing list, livejournal post or myspace topic!

Deadline for voting is midnight sunday, at which point I'll tally up the numbers and generate the shortlist for the vote at 2:30pm.

Here's the books:

Attwood, Margaret - Oryx & Crake
Banks, Iain M - The State of the Art
Ballard, JG – War Fever (out of print, but lots of 2nd hand copies)
Carter, Angela - Nights at the Circus
Connolly, John - The Book of Lost Things (512 pages)
Dostoyevsky, F M - The Idiot.
Gold, Glenn David – Carter Beats the Devil (563 pages)
Heinlein, Robert - Stranger in a Strange Land (672 pages)
Hubert, Selby Jr - Last Exit To Brooklyn
Lee, Vernon - Hauntings and other Fantastic Tales
Mieville, China - King Rat
Noon, Jeff – Vurt
Palahnuik, Chuck – Choke
Pamuk, Orhan - My Name is Red
Radcliffe, Ann - The Mysteries of Udolpho (728 Pages)
Radcliffe, Anne – The Italian (544 pages)
Self, Will - The Quantity Theory of Insanity
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isaevich - A Day In The Life of ivan Denisovich
Stace, Wesley – Misfortune (544 pages)
Turgenev, Ivan - Fathers and Sons
Wallace, David Foster - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

( The long list with details and links... )

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Tags: london bibliogoths

Mar. 25th, 2007

sheridanwilde

meeting notes, 2007-03-11

location: South East London

music: Mermaidia, unfortunately

BiblioGoth Meeting - 2007-03-11 - Clare Clark - The Great Stink

The Vote

William Hope Hodgson - The Casebook of the Carnacki Ghost Finder
Next meeting - 2007-04-01 at The Castle, Farringdon.

These are notes, so don't expect an article on The London BiblioGoths read The Great Stink. Discuss.

( the notes )

Tags: london, london bibliogoths, meeting, meetings, notes

Jul. 25th, 2006

ravenstoker

[London] August long list

Greetings all,

Just in time for this coming sunday's meet, here's the long list for August. Usual rules apply - select five books to shortlist for sunday's voting and one optional anti-vote for the book you'd like to nuke - then send 'em back to the list, to me or to sheridan or indeed, reply to the appropriate Livejournal post.

Here's the list
Ackroyd, Peter - Hawksmoor
Andahazi, Federico - The Anatomist
Akunin, Boris - The Winter Queen
Armstrong, Karen – Through The Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Convent Life
Banks, Iain M – The State of the Art
Duras, Marguerite - Destroy, She Said
Fowles, John - The Magus (656 pages!!)
Gaiman, Neil – Smoke and Mirrors
Grossman, Lev - Codex
Harwood, John - Ghost Writer
Hayles, David - The Suicide Kit
Mishima, Yukio - The Sailor Who Fell from Grace
Mitnick, Kevin – The Art of Deception
Niffenegger, Audrey - The Time Traveller's Wife
Orwell, George - Nineteen Eighty-Four
Sebold, Alice - The Lovely Bones
Somerset, Anne - The Affair of the Poisons
Stewart, George - The Earth Abides
Tyler, Anne - Patchwork Planet
Waugh, Evelyn - The Loved One
Wells, H. G - Love and Mr. Lewisham
Wodehouse, P.G. - Very Good Jeeves
Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway

Ackroyd, Peter - Hawksmoor
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0140171134/planetvinyl-21

Andahazi, Federico - The Anatomist
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0552999466/planetvinyl-21

Akunin, Boris - The Winter Queen
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0753817594/planetvinyl-21