Public reader discussion about The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.
By heatherkey1989
I was pretty curious to get more from Fosco, but I’m not sure it totally blew my expectations away. The book lays out how he planned everything in pretty big detail, though—was there anything actually new, or just a clearer version of what we already knew? It definitely made me think about him a bit differently, but I can’t say I’m fully sold either way. Anything else people want to focus on?
By listensAnchor3742
I really liked all of these. I’m kind of in it for that gothic vibe—drama, or something kind of melancholy. Lately I’ve been wanting pure fiction again to get me reading, but from what I keep seeing, a lot of the more popular modern gothics just don’t seem like my thing. I tried Mexican Gothic and couldn’t get into it; the writing felt a bit amateur to me. What I’m looking for is mainly good writing (besides whatever the actual story is), like The Woman in White—just really well done. I don’t really care if it’s straight drama or straight horror or whatever, I’m open. If you’ve read my favorites and think we might have similar taste, please recommend literally anything you’d bet on!
By mintEpilogue
There’s this super loud amusement park right outside where I’m staying, so yeah, it’s kind of a chaos vibe. Honestly, this book felt like a wild ride. I was thrown off right away in the foreword, then I got totally caught by that 999-line poem, but the commentaries annoyed me at times. I still read it straight through, even when parts dragged and I kind of had to push myself. I’m really glad I stuck with it though, because overall it ended up being awesome. By the end, I went back to the foreword and things finally clicked—like, I finally got what K was going on about. It also made me feel like his whole obsession and mental spiral is actually real, because certain lines suddenly made sense. And then after finishing, I reread the foreword again and ended up going back to the poem too, which is honestly crazy, same energy as Kinbote. I’ve never been tricked into rereading something like this before—now I’m definitely going back. I’m also probably going to grab the physical copy since I read on Kindle, just so I can line up the commentaries with the lines properly.