You can now. That feature's in beta, but I think it's only up to 10 people.
Twitter has a conference call client also, TinyChat.
I got stabbed, you know, right here.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Volans - Jul 08, 2010 7:55:22 am PDT #11726 of 28343
move out and draw fire
DavidS - Jul 08, 2010 9:02:24 am PDT #11727 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Unlike most online media zones, at the Guardian UK you really should read the comments. For example, the list of Top 10 Gothic Books of the 20th Century is pretty good, but the comments offer better options.
Ginger - Jul 08, 2010 9:51:37 am PDT #11728 of 28343
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I am having difficulty fathoming the Gormenghast love. Also, in my mind, horror does not necessarily equal gothic.
DavidS - Jul 08, 2010 11:23:58 am PDT #11729 of 28343
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Also, in my mind, horror does not necessarily equal gothic.
Not just in your mind. Rebecca isn't really a horror novel, but it is a gothic.
Gormenghast is very gothic, though.
I've seen one feminist reading of the gothic genre which suggests that it addresses a young woman's anxiety about being married into a new house, and a new family that has secrets, mysteries, etc. In gothic, these elements are writ large.
Also, in gothic (since Poe anyway) there's a fusion between the psychological and the physical decay of the building. So it becomes a vast metaphor for a psyche that's split or corrupted. Roderick Usher and the House of Usher being the prime example.
Strix - Jul 08, 2010 11:44:22 am PDT #11730 of 28343
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Well, that's certainly the case in Hill House. The Shining, also.
And, although not Gothic, Tara in GWTW.
Hmm. Now I'm trying to think of others.
Dana - Jul 08, 2010 11:45:33 am PDT #11731 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
There's always Miss Havisham in her house.
Volans - Jul 08, 2010 1:58:54 pm PDT #11732 of 28343
move out and draw fire
And Merricat.
Volans - Jul 08, 2010 2:05:39 pm PDT #11733 of 28343
move out and draw fire
quiche:
If we can use movies also, Psycho/hotel and the Others/manor.
House of Spirits?
Toddson - Jul 09, 2010 4:28:28 am PDT #11734 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
The first version of The Haunting - seriously scary.
Dana - Jul 10, 2010 6:17:21 pm PDT #11735 of 28343
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I just finished The Somnambulist. Anyone else read it? The ending started to sag a little under the weight of all the influences and improbabilities, but the world-building was great. Also (decently big spoiler) any book that involves Zombie Samuel Taylor Coleridge is all right with me.