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  1. J

    DAE have unusual taste or trouble relating to popular book culture? DAE like older "gothic" fiction?

    Yes, Le Morte d'Arthur is one of the things I'm reading now. I love Arthurian stuff. And thank you for the other suggestions.
  2. J

    DAE have unusual taste or trouble relating to popular book culture? DAE like older "gothic" fiction?

    I don't know why I like Thomas Hardy so much - probably because his novels (0r the ones I've read, at least) are dark, though in a more realistic rather than gothic / romantic kind of way. But I've definitely read plenty of non-gothic and non-romantic novels - some that I liked well enough, and...
  3. J

    DAE have unusual taste or trouble relating to popular book culture? DAE like older "gothic" fiction?

    Thank you. Yes, I am definitely interested in reading many of the things you suggested. Wilkie Collins, especially, since I've read that both Daphne Du Maurier and Victoria Holt were fans of his. (He was a man, right?) I have read about two thirds of Jane Eyre, but I unfortunately found it to be...
  4. J

    DAE have unusual taste or trouble relating to popular book culture? DAE like older "gothic" fiction?

    I am new to this site, and one of the reasons I joined was because I had trouble finding people with similar interests as me on the other forum I was using. It is a bit hard to describe my taste in fiction. It could almost be summed up by the word "gothic". But that word now seems to have many...
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