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We read Wise Blood this past school year and it was one of my favorite books I have ever read!
I know I am probably way off base, but I wondering if you guys would consider some of VC Andrews' novels to be Southern Gothic? A lot of her stories are based in the South, and they all have that whole tragically, grotesque beauty thing going on and are often very taboo. Southern Gothic?
Ya'll are awesome! I will have to give those books a try.
Pam
This was a great second video. I think it is great that you are showing us the books that you like. I was wondering may be you could start the list (coming from your group) with the books you talked about and then has time goes. It would be fun so people could go check it out at any time.
The idea of creating a book club would be fun. You could create a list from the public. Then if one of you have read it, you could had it unto the Southern Gothic's list.
Thanks again for sharing all these books. It was great.
Thanks for doing such a great job.
Helene
I just want to let you know that as an English teacher I really appreciate your literature discussions! Hilary and Nick, you guys are too too cute! I'm looking forward to more book suggestions. You should definitely start a book club!
This side is a kickass cool blog :). And i love that book, :D Is there going to be a bookclub? Cool idea, btw :D
That was absolutely enjoyable!!! I had looked up what Southern Gothic meant a couple of weeks ago and you guys reiterated the meaning perfectly. You are opening up a very wide new door of genre to me and I'm sure many others who look at this blog. Thankyou!
p.s. I am a HUGE lover of cemeteries. Thanks for filming your blog in the cemetery, one of my favorite places to be. I loved it! =)
Hi again!
So I just have to say that I went down to the book store and bought "Wise Blood" and "Deep South." I am excited to read them now.
so... yes... the end. Have a good monday!
Raquel
costaricanpassion.blogspot.com
Hey Nick and Hilarie, thanks for your vlogs, it was really good to hear how Southern Gothic Productions came about. I'm really looking forward to seeing the types of projects you guys make. And I'll be sure to pop in for your list of book recommendations (book club). Unfortunately I have none for you I don't think, unless I may have read some southern gothic books and have not known it at the time. But the stories you've been explaining are intriguing and definitely worth looking into.
All the very best!
Book clubbb, do it do it!
I'm gonna check out the books you guys mentioned.. I really need to start reading again :]
By the way I lovee that you guys are vlogging, its so awesome.. You guys are so funny!
xoxo!
Nick and Hil:
Thanks for sharing with us so that we know a bit more about what Southern Gothic is all about! I am a huge fan of Southern Gothic novels in general. Nick, I personally am a big fan of Flannery O'Connor too. Her short stories are even better in my opinion, such as a Stroke of Good Fortune and A Good Man in Hard to find- they might be worth looking into if you do the book club. In addition, Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury is rather complicated, but perfectly falls under that category. One of his short stories, A Rose for Emily, is my personal favorite, and in my opinion, is the exact example of the grotesque.
I LOVE that you guys are incorporating this into film and can't wait to see what you do with it!
Brianna
Dominique : Slumdog millionaire is a great movie you'll enjoy it very much!
Marion, it is a classic but unfortunately i don't live there. I live about three hours away. i love it there though. fun facts about where i live- "driving miss daisy" was filmed on my road. (the part where they pull over and eat haha) and "murder in coweta county was shot in my granddaddy's office at the courthouse (and no, it's not coweta haha). believe me when i tell you that's all we're known for and most people here don't even remember that haha. i love the south though. i sometimes think about leaving, but i think i'd just come right back haha. love me some Bible Belt haha.
Haha Hil and Nick you have amazing taste in literature. I've read everyone of those books and I felt awesome.
Good luck with everything.
Becca ) Forrest Gump is such a wonderful movie you must be very proud of your town !
Hey just wondering what are Mr Austin Nichols recommendations .... ?
Hope slumdog'll win tonight. It has to
Bye
Marion
Great that you guys suggest books to read.
<3 I might read some of these !
i can't wait to see Slumdog Millionaire though : )
Over 100 Comments again! :D
Niamh, je confirme les propos de Marfr, tu parles excellemment bien le français. Cela fait plaisir à voir.
Kelly - I'm willing to help with Laurene's issue if you need it.
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just to let you know, i had to go out and find half of those books =P
Kelsey, i think if it's haunted, it's haunted- no matter where you are haha. i love ghost stories from people that live in haunted hotels or houses. they're exciting. that's really cool about that theater too. I can see that be really eery and fun.
niamh: thanks so much, and for the advice and recommendations on the book =))
mellissa: yeah it's a good plane read :). Not mindless or insubstantial by any means, but not too heavy :). Hope you have a wonderful trip!
elizabeth: am super intrigued by savannah now, sounds v. atmospheric and historic and all that good stuff :P
Becca, ghost stories are amazing. <3 On Halloween, my friend and I went around to all the haunted locations in Lincoln (where I go to school). I also talked about going to the Guthrie Theater in one of my previous posts, and it is an old opera house that is also haunted. It’s always fun and uber creepy to visit haunted places, but I’m from the Midwest and it’s probably nothing like it would be in the South. :(
And on the subject of Twilight, “Twilight” (by William Gay not by Stephanie Meyer.. lol) is very southern gothic. It has too much senseless violence and grotesque imagery for my taste, but I guess someone here might like it.
On the subject of movies, “Solstice” was a good southern horror movie and has Hil in it (which means you all should see it anyway). <3
danielle: thanks =)) i'm taking 1 plane to Raleigh Durham and then driving to Wilmington since i'm coming from Toronto, but i heard about t he whole Cape Fear Coast thing being gorgeous, and im excited to see that, but i'm definitely going for OTH xPP. If you go this summer i hope you have a great time =DD
@peytonmellissa ... no, we were just driving by then and I didn't know OTH then. Wilmington's really nice. The whole Cape Fear Coast is. Though, for me it's just really not around the corner. There's a whole Atlantic (and even more) inbetween ;) Maybe I'll go there this summer. We'll see... You have a great time there though. I'm sure you'll love it :)
hey kelly! i read about your problem with people not being able to hear the video, and if you need someone to make transcripts for you once they are made i would love to do it!
I have made many transcripts of shows for different websites!
email me anytime ntantum624@aol.com
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love always,
Nicole
danielle - it has, but what you wrote makes me want to read it even more xPP I've nver been to NC i'm really excited about it. Did you go to the set of OTH or just to visit?
I agree with Becca! Savannah's like town of the dead. It's very southern gothic! Lots of ghosts. Lots of southern history everywhere. Numerous films were filmed here (glory, midnight in the garden of good and evil). We have tons of tours on trolleys, carriage rides, even hearse tours, oh yes and a favorite in Savannah the drinking tour. I definitely recommend for those of you who are interested in stuff like that coming to Savannah for a little trip. Though I can say you might go home with bite marks haha... (go to the marshall house for details) nah they won't tell you because they don't want people to be afraid of their hotel! Apparently there's a cat and child that are ghosts living in the hotel and they both bite:) And lastly be careful when walking around at night Savannah isn't really the safest town. Don't walk on the number streets!
@peytonmelissa ... I guess your question's already answered with everything niamh wrote ;) I loved it. Every character in it. And the landscape ... no word's for that. Guess I have to go back to North Carolina one day ...
mellissa: yeah it's a really good, heartwarming, easy read. It's the kind you could probs read all in one go. My friend gave it to me and when i heard it was civil rights era, i wasn't overly excited as just wasn't in the mood for another "to kill a mockingbird" or "roll of thunder," but that ended up being only part of the story. It's definitely character-driven as opposed to issue-driven which i like.
as for Twilight, i honestly gave it a good go :p. I wanted to see what all the fuss was about so i read the first book and went to see the film - that's hours of my life i dedicated to the cause. But i don't know, i just wasn't feeling the Edward Cullen love! I know this is probably blasphemous to some, but the fact that he's all pale and cold and (here's the kicker) liable to suck your blood at any moment, is not sexy to me!
Danielle: yeah it's a good film - how i love paul bettany :) (although his character is not v. nice!)
Danielle : I haven't seen or read the book yet xPP Did you enjoy the movie? I'm really excited to see it i just have no money to buy it =PP
@niamh thanks! I haven't read the book yet, though, just saw the movie last week :)
I need to get the Secret Life of Bees i said i would read it after the twilight series i need to go and pick it up.
Niamh was it good?
marion: mdr, "assurer un max," ca c'est une nouvelle expression pour moi, je l'adore! merci!
danielle: it's been a year or so since i read The Secret Life of Bees, but yeah, i remember it being mega southern - not so much on the gothic though!
p.s. i want to go to savannah, sounds fab :)
Hej
What about "The Secret Life of Bees" ... is that Southern Gothic? Well, at least it's Southern, right? But gothic?
Danielle
Hey Guys!
So, I feel a little bit like an American literature idiot because I grew up with German literature until I moved here almost 2 years ago. But I think this is also was this website/production is about: inspiration. You guys should be so proud of yourself that you inspire people around the world to read amazing literature...you inspired me ;)
Thanks for all the recommendations!!!
ps: I get the feeling that there might be "some" waiting for you guys to produce some Souhtern Gothic including a couple nationalities, since you guys have so much foreign feedback...lol
Kelsey, yea Georgia is very nice-when it's not constantly changing from 70 degrees to 30 degrees in just a couple of days haha. I love Savannah though, with it's mournful past and all the Spanish moss that only adds to the effect. It's definitely a Southern Gothic-esque town. I ate at The Pirate House the last time I was there and it's haunted. So that was awesome. Who doesn't love a good ghost story? :)
Hey Guys ;
Loving the vlog about Southern Gothic Literature ! I was thrilled when you mentionned Flannery O'Connor because that's my favorite author and Wise Blood is such a wonderful and terrific book.
Thank you for all the recommendations .
Can we say that E.A Poe short stories such as " The Fall of the House of Usher" are Southern Gothic ?
Well Niamh good French ! Tu assures un max en français ,vraiment ! Félicitations
Byeee
christy: i remember doing all those in school too - good times! It's so funny going back and reading books that you annotated years ago or that someone else annotated :P
lyly: mdr, j'espère que vous continuerez à laisser des commentaires en français - je ne suis pas français moi-même mais j'adore la langue et votre mode d'expression :)
K scratch that last question just read some previous comments and someone mentioned "To kill a mocking bird" being SG!
Ps: Im totally digging Nicks shades! :)
Haha Loved the quiz at the end! K so i have a quiz question...
"To kill a Mocking bird" Southern Gothic or not??
Your voice and your face across the Atlantic, and I thank you for sharing your humor and your passion through this blog.
Thank you for the literary recommendations and thank you for let us discover a little more this South you love so much!
I heard Hilarie understand or speak French, so ... a few words in my language ^^ :
Hilarie, j'aime tellement ce chapeau ! Il s'accorde parfaitement à ton sourire !
Can I expect a few words in French in the next vlog? It would be wonderful !
Lyly
So after researching southern gothic a little more I realized that because of living in the south I have studied a lot of southern gothic books in class. We read "The Glass Menagerie" "To Kill A Mockingbird" and "A Street Car Named Desire" I am going to go back and re-read them because it's been years. I'm also checking out some of your suggestions.
You start start a book club blog of SG. It seems to be a popular topic.
Kim
http://labound32.blogspot.com
I use libraries, Maya Jo!
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It's brilliant to hear some recommendations in a genre that I didn't know existed. Thanks for giving me an idea of the things I should look into, I can tell I'm going to get hooked. I go through huge phases in different genres and I'm so intrigued.
Also, I was wondering whether there's Southern Gothic poetry (I assume so) and which is your favourite/general favourite poets?
- Rosianna (from the faraway land of London, UK.
You guys are like the Oprah's book club for people with intellect. I am so glad that you are giving the southern gothis genre the credit it deserves.
I truly believe that anyone who hasn't read any of Capote's work should immediately go to the library(does anyone besides me use libraries anymore?) and check out any one of his many stories.
Eudora Welty also ranks high on my list, as well as her mentor Katherine Anne Porter. Porter's collection on short stories, though not all set in the south, are amazing.
Hi Hilarie
Thanks for the recommendation for the photography book "Deep South". I guess I'll have to get a copy of that one.
Danielle
Becca, you can call me Kelsey :). I guess I should have just picked my name as my username, but it's too late now. lol. That is so cool that you have been there, Becca. My aunt used to live in Georgia (I love it down there, however I love pretty much any place down south. lol) and I've been there at least 5 times (just not to Savannah :(). I can't wait to go there someday and read that story.
I am currently in a college English class, but it’s more of a writing class. Regardless, my teacher is awesome! If I can be half as cool as she is when I’m older, I’ll be set for life. She used to be a record executive, cusses like a sailor and definitely appreciates the dark stuff. <3
BrwnEyedGirl, i know exactly what you mean. Symbolism and inner meanings have always intrigued me. I miss English so much haha. I am done with my core english because of that AP class and I couldn't make my schedule soon enough to be in one of the upper level ones so I'm desperate for it haha. The other day, I edited and rewrote part of my friend's paper just for the heck of it. Is that not sad? haha.
And yes I did mean "Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil." Thank you, it's just been a long day. The movie was actually filmed there in Savannah I believe. I've been by the house where all the action took place too. That story basically wrote itself with all of that drama, but I too found it very interesting.
Oh yes, "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Glass Managerie" are both very southern gothic. I had to read those too and I really enjoyed them. I realized that almost everything I read in school falls under at least the gothic category haha. That's one reason I love SoGo guys so much, they love all the dark stuff too, haha.
Becca, I like symbolism too. lol. I loved English classes in general because we got to analyze everything so in depth. I'm one of those people who like to immerse myself in a novel, not just read it quickly and be done with it. Growing up I was always really interested in why authors choose the words that they did and how they could convey different emotions and meanings through one word or even a missing comma. I like to know other people’s interpretations and viewpoints, and I feel like you miss out on that just reading on your own.
Becca do you mean “Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil”? Because I’m pretty sure I saw the movie version with John Cusack and Kevin Spacey. lol. I don’t know how closely the movie follows the book but it was about a murder case in Savannah and was pretty interesting.
I read the “The Rocking Horse Winner” for extra credit in my 7th grade English class (along with a lot of Edgar Allen Poe stories because they were the most points… haha. total geek I know) and it was good. I don’t really remember it being southern gothic, but Paul has supernatural powers (when it comes to horses).. so I guess it qualifies. lol.
And I don’t really know if plays count, but in my 9th and 10th grade English class we read “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “the Glass Managerie” and they are kind of southern gothic. maybe? Reading plays in school were always fun because we went on field trips to the Guthrie theater to watch them. <3