Discussion - Oh, Whistle And I'll Come to You, My Lad by M.R. James

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fljoe0

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I thought, since no book was suggested last Wed. it might be best to give everyone some time off this week to read, thus take "the day off tomorrow" and re start discussion next Wednesday. Hope that is ok?:wink:

Good for me. I've been having a hard time getting my reading squeezed in the past couple of weeks. I still haven't read the one for the thread we are in.
 

Neesy

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Good for me. I've been having a hard time getting my reading squeezed in the past couple of weeks. I still haven't read the one for the thread we are in.
I just ordered 20th Century Ghosts by Joe Hill from the library - I think I have a copy upstairs :a11: but just to be on the safe side, I figure it's better to order one. Too bad it's not available in large type :inspect:
 

Dana Jean

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Very late to this one.

M.R. James is not a favorite of mine. I've read a collection of his stories and just not blown away. But, that's not saying that I don't acknowledge with respect his contribution to the quiet coffin.

I have been reading a lot of spooky, horror, supernatural stuff lately and I do have to admit that the O.G.'s in the widespread genre are far superior to the work of modern times in terms of ideas. James and his like are the vanguards of today's horror and I give it up to them.

And as to your question about professors being more open to the possibilities in myths, fairytales and sagas -- I just believe that is a scholarly mind. It's what a scholar's mind is wired to do. Seek. Never say never. Approach a subject from all its convoluted sides.
 
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