2023 Buddy Read: Seven "Horrid Novels" Gothic Reads from Northanger Abbey

[Gilbert]

Finished The Midnight Bell by Francis Lathom.
Starting The Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath.

[Gilbert]

Finished the reread of Northanger Abbey, continuing the read of Sir Charles Grandison(volume IV, letter XXXV), and starting The Orphan of the Rhine.

[Gilbert]

Finally finished The Orphan of the Rhine by Eleanor Sleath.

Starting the seventh and last of the Jane Austen Horrid Novels: Clermont by Regina Maria Roche.

Frankly it's gotten to be a bit of a bore essentially reading and rereading the same story line time and again.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

I know how you feel. Orphan of the Rhine was a chore to get through.

[Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile]

Gilbert are you saying that a few of these books are too similiar in context?

[Gilbert]

A few? The basic themes, at least to me, seem written by the same person, time after time.

[Lesle, Appalachian Bibliophile]

That is odd. Would make you wonder for sure.

[Gilbert]

Well, I've finished the Horrid Seven. I don't have a lot to say about gothic literature other than their sameness shows up pretty quickly and gets to be boring after the third or fourth volume.

[Rosemarie, Northern Roaming Scholar]

I didn't get past the second book!