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I've been curious to see the 'Andy Warhol versions' of Frankenstein and Dracula. I have them in my Netflix queue, but haven't moved them up because I have the feeling that like what I've seen of Pink Flamingos, they are the type of movies it's better to know about than actually sit ... ...
2. Alias Grace
3. Oliver Twist
4. The Old Man and the Sea
5. Invisible Man
6. Beloved
7. Frankenstein
8. Dracula
9. Get Shorty
10. Dangerous Liasons
11. The Count of Monte Cristo
12. Brideshead Revisited
I am trying to decide if I like my original list or my ... ... of the D’Urbervilles
47. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
48. The Yellow Wallpaper
49. Jude the Obscure
50. Dracula
51. The Turn of the Screw
Well, as I am up to the 20th century now, I'll have a break. I'll probably add more later, as I tend to get a wee bit obsessive ... ... of the degeneration of the classes was a very important issue of the time - The Time Machine was released 2 years before Dracula; the first Yellow Peril novel in 1892. Look at what Dracula does - his 'influence' changes Lucy and Renfield from good English people into degenerates.
It ... ... harder to find editions in the World’s Best Reading series:
http://used.addall.com
I have most recently picked up Dracula, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzau through this used book search engine. I have been using it for a ... ... from one of the Amish booths, some homemade pasta from another, some cushions for our kitchen chairs, and The Stand and Dracula from the used book booths.
Then we went to downtown Ephrata and had lunch at a little cafe and coffee shop, picked up a couple of miniature kites to give our ... ... gaol, when he used the alias Sebastian Melmoth. Maturin incidentally was Oscar's mother's uncle by marriage.
I read Dracula again last year for the first time since I was an adolescent. I enjoyed the descriptions, the succubus like brides, and especially the wolves. Stoker's use of diary ... That was what got on my nerves about the (admittedly beautiful) Francis Ford Coppola adaption of Dracula. To those that were sad for him later in the film ("I love you too much!"), did you just forget about the bit earlier where he stole an infant and fed it to his other wives?
Dracula (a ... ... myth - see Polidori - and was heightened by Le Fanu with Camilla, very openly lesbian for it's time. The sexuality of Dracula has more to do with the movies than the novel - in the novel the Count is repulsive: he is less a sexual predator than vermin that preys on humanity, spreading ... ... ment.
I don't know what people see in werewolves either... but vampires are sexual by nature. It goes all the way back to Dracula. The Victorian lady meets a wealthy foreign gentleman and succumbs to his supernatural charm -- she would never submit willingly, of course! He hypnotizes her and ... There is probably enough temptation, but not enough sin, for Dracula to be all that decadent. Still, it does have a strong whiff of decadence. Stoker's relish for describing crumbling buildings, cemeteries, lonesome landscapes, rats and the staking of vampires, helps. The story is told from many ... I loved Hogg's book and need to read it again soon. I also need to read Dracula again (I read it as a monster story in my early teens). Written in the 1890s, it's a little late to be a proper gothic novel - so I suspect with all the languor and attenuated perversity of vampirism, it probably ... ... people who have the same novel whether published in as a stand alone book or as part of an omnibus or a collection. Think Dracula vs the single volume bundle of Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Also think The Iliad and The Odyssey vs the bundle The Iliad and the Odyssey ... ... into swans. I was really hoping to like this book but it just left me wishing that there was more to it.
38. Dracula by Bram Stoker
Very good book, of course it would have to be, seeing as this is the grand daddy of all vampire fiction, but it had a lot of good aventure and ... I finished Dracula and started The Eyre Affair. Hopefully, this will be a quicker read than the three weeks it took me to get through Dracula. I have to say, Dracula was excellent, but it really insisted on quiet reading moments, which are few and far between in this house... jseger, well, YMMV with Dracula. As I said, it wasn't bad. I just had a hard time sitting stills for the characters ramblings about Victorian morality when there was a vampire running about. Count Dracula is still pretty cool. I just had less patience with the non-vampiric characters. Carlos,
Sorry to hear Dracula was disappointing. That was another of those 'some day' books. I'll still try it though.
Not that it compares to Nathaniel Hawthorne, but I really enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes stories and what I've read by Edgar Allen Poe.
I know what you mean about ... ... that of the five works of older stuff I've read in the past year or so, the only ones I found really disappointing were Dracula and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Not that they were bad, but I couldn't stop comparing them to their much more suspenseful, dramatic 20th Century ... ... rodie
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
Bram Stoker, Dracula
Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
and,
David C. Major & John S. Major, 100 One-Night Reads: a Book Lover's Guide (no touchstone)
I'm not all that excited about ... ... of snow and ice and bitter winds.
It rained all day here, so I had the perfect atmosphere to finish Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Any revelry that went on, much less debauchery, was only in my mind, MTP (more's the pity). ... That Book! I hope your review goes into detail about what you didn't like about it.
I just finished Bram Stoker's Dracula. I had never read it, oddly enough, though I'm a fan of vampire and horror fiction. It was quite good and really grabbed my attention -- I started it yesterday ... #103 and 104 ~ Same here, but I read Dracula as a teen on a cold autumn night in Chicago, with every light in the living room on. I remember worrying that my dad would get up and yell at me for wasting electricity, but I just couldn't stop reading yet it was so scary (esp. with the wind moaning ... englishrose60, the same happened to me when I read Dracula, in my teens!
:-)) I've got Dracula! I'm going away from Gothic, though. Anyone here read Loving by Henry Green? Let's see: Lover Eternal, Speaks the Nightbird Volume II, Dracula, Lord Ryburn's Apprentice, Garden of Dreams by Valerie King I just read the section with the old man in Dracula (yes, I do read that slow) and I loved many words there from the Yorkshire dialect.
Fash masel (trouble myself)
gang ageenwards (go toward)
crammle aboon the grees (go upstairs)
beuk-bodies (book people)
skeer an' scunner hafflin's (scare ... ... Radcliffe, and, of course, Frankenstein. Neither Polidori's vampire novel nor Stoker's have made it yet, but I suspect Dracula will make his appearance soon; as the advertising slogan from Hammer Films' "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave' put it--"You can't keep a good man down!" Ooh! That's Dracula.
And I checked, and I'm right, but it's going to have to wait until I get home for the next line. Sorry! ... getting you down or The Dancing Wu Li Masters which is a highly readable book about physics.
Bib what did you think of Dracula?
As for classics well I was an English major so I tend to love them. There is often a reason they stand the test of time but I also don't think forcing things on ... I just finished Dracula. I'm off to add it to my 50 Book Challenge and then start on Jane Eyre. I have nothing new to say, I'm just trying to complete the "wall of bib". Now I will go read Dracula until some comes to keep my company here. I started Dracula and also borrowed The Big Over Easy from the library (I still haven't tracked down The Eyre Affair.) I have about six or seven other books in a pile near my bed waiting to be read/finished.
Now I just need the time-turner and I'm set. I only have 3 more chapters of Dracula to go, so I should finish it tomorrow. I'm thinking Bronte next; which one though? I'm open to suggestions, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. (I'll look at Anne last unless someone changes my mind!) "Friend John, there are strange and terrible days before us."
Dracula
"Was it not for these causes that you send for me when the great trouble came?" "The poor soul's body will enjoy the relief even if his mind cannot appreciate it."
Dracula
But why need we seek him further, when he is gone away from us?"
"Yabblins! There may be a poorish few..."
Dracula
"Surely these tombstones are not all wrong?" "I would fain have rebelled, but felt that in the present state of things it would be madness..."
Dracula by Bram Stoker
"Are you not going to keep flies any more?" ... so I'll work on it this weekend. I've also started The Boleyn Inheritance for my lunch reading. Still working on Dracula as well, since I haven't been online much in the last week! I just finished Howl's Moving Castle and I'm trying to decide between Dracula or Lost in a Good Book. Can someone tell me if that's the first Thursday Next book and if there is any reason I need to read them in order? 11. Sense and Sensibility (ebook)
12. The Golden Compass
13. The Subtle Knife
14. The Amber Spyglass
15. Dracula (ebook) ... Sense and Sensibility (ebook) and if it stays as quiet here this afternoon as it has been this morning I'll start Dracula today, and know what Mar and Cat have been talking about! Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Night by Elie Wiesel
Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon
I FINALLY finished The Historian last night and Dracula this morning. On the train on the way to the airport I started a book sent to me by the Literary Ventures Fund Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway. It is extremely interesting and very well written so far (I'm almost 1/2 ... ... read that made me think it might be interesting to be bitten and turned into one of the undead. (The only prior ones were Dracula and Salem's Lot, neither of which featured monsters that were as compelling, or who led such seductive lives, as Louis and Lestat.)
... the same word for host and guest in French which was part of what Camus played with in the title.
Well I just finished Dracula which I mentioned on another thread and I am almost finished with The House in Paris and midway through a reread of Northanger Abbey and rereading The History B ... ... I'll try one with only the books I've read! Don't include the '(the)'
Metamorphoses of Don Quixote (the) Awakening Dracula Where Angels Fear to Tread.
Ok, so not really a perfect sentence, but hey, I haven't read all 1001 yet!
... of the washing machine reminds me that I must do laundry very soon. Perhaps tomorrow.
Since I almost finished with Dracula I considered writing out the search for MrA in epistolary form but it is late for me so I am going to finish my tea and go to bed
May 14, 2008
Post of Marensr
... >115,
I'm working on The Historian now too. It is probably the 3rd time I've read it and this time I'm doing it with Dracula and Vlad the Impaler(nonfiction). This theme read has been increasing my appreciation of The Historian even more! Cat I am about halfway through Dracula (Dr. Seward has been summoned to look at Lucy, Mina has just married Harker, Renfield has escaped twice).
It is really good. I really enjoy novels that make use of journals and the epistolary form and had know idea until I started that Dracula was one of ... I'm working on Vlad the Impaler at the moment, and doing it as a theme read with two fiction books: Dracula and The Historian. I am really enjoying the way that the three books interact with one another, I think reading them all together like this is far more valuable in this case than ... ... but he certainly has well drawn characters.
I am still reading The House in Paris almost finished so I can pick up Dracula and catch up with cat. But Compski just reminded me I had planned on doing the Jane Austen read along which means I should reread Northanger Abbey Then rissa's ... I'm still working on my impromptu Vlad Dracul theme read with Vlad the Impaler, Dracula, and The Historian. I am still reading Red Land, Black Land, and I have started reading Dracula. I haven't gotten very far in Dracula, but so far, I love it! The Historian is actually a reread (I do quite enjoy it, though), but Dracula and Vlad the Impaler are first time reads, inspired by my interest in The Historian. ... The Diary of a Provincial Lady hilarious. I started The House in Paris on the train and of course there is still Dracula which since there are others reading it I'll have to finish so we can chat about it.
There are several other things stacked next to my bed that I started but ... I'm in Romania and traveling all over Europe with Vlad the Impaler and The Historian and, hopefully, with Dracula (if they've got it at Half Price Books tonight). ... since I've already got it. This turned into a theme-read and I'm planning to stop at Half Price Books tonight to pick up Dracula too. So now I'm doing a Dracula Theme Read. This is what happens when I go for a 'fun' book. 456- Ooh, I just recently bought Dracula. I might start reading it now. I am still reading Red Land, Black Land, though, so I'm not sure whether I will start reading Dracula now, or a little later. I'm also listening to The Titan's Curse with JP (I have already read that book, but it is JP's ... Oh Mar, let me know what you think of Dracula. I've not read it either but I was tempted after reading The Historian. I wonder if I might get more out of a reread if I read Stoker first.
I finished the series and have posted my thoughts on the thread. So now I'm down ... ... to describe if you haven't read it.
Oh right now I am reading The Diary of a Provincial Lady and I have started Dracula but I was curious about the origins of the vampire story and I hadn't read stoker before.I am still just in Harker's journals and he has just arrived at castle Dracu ... ... the end by an interesting plot twist that I really don't want to give away.
This novel is told in much the same style as Dracula, through the use of letters and journal entries, and the feel of the story is much the same as the original. Her prose is downright creepy in spots, and the plot ... ... and it looked interesting. Thing is due to the non-stop slew of crap vampire books I was afraid to try a new spin on Dracula. Now that I've seen an endorsement from someone trustworthy, I'll look into it.
Have you read Lord of the Dead? That's another gothic vampire tale that looked ... ... being controlled by Dracula. The only major flaw I see so far is that you probably want to be familiar with Stoker's Dracula instead of relying on movie versions to be able to get the full effect. ... Stone
Earthsea Cycle
The Odyssey
The Princess Bride
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
His Dark Materials
Dracula
Peter Pan
Dragonriders of Pern trilogy
The Arabian Nights
The Illiad
Watership Down
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Complete Fairy Tales and Storie ... ... llemyrsfolket
Sult (in English: "Hunger")
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (long ago)
Dracula (long ago)
Heart of Darkness
The Call of the Wild (long ago)
Juvikfolke
Growth of the Soil (in Norwegian: "Markens grøde")
Kristin Lavransdatter
De ... ... of the 19th Century" class covered Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, The Mill on the Floss, Tess of the D'ubervilles, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The cool thing was that it turned out that we happened to be a small class of all women (including the professor) so we chose to ... Dracula by Bram Stoker was always an intriguing comparison to the movie by Francis Ford Coppola starring Gary Oldman.
I wrote a book report comparing and contrasting the two when I was in high school.
I really loved the way the movie covers for the love story between Mina and Dracula. H ... ... after finishing up The Well of Ascension. I'm only 3 chapters in, but so far it's a pretty good interpretation of Dracula. Here`s my 12 -
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
Bram Stoker - Dracula
Pierre Quiroule - The Case of the Bismarck Papers
Jack Trevor Story - The Season of the Skylark
J B Priestley - All about Ourselves
George Bernard Shaw - The Black Girl In Search of God
... ... how about Don Quixote? (It does have a 'date read' entry but it was in 1989, so maybe you're up for a reread. If not, Dracula.)
I'm up for reading anything in my library that isn't already reviewed, though I prefer fiction.
edited to close my parentheses. Revenge: The Count of Monte Cristo
Adventure: The Three Musketeers
Suspense: Dracula
Science Fiction: The Time Machine
Comedy: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Fantasy: Narnia series
Allegorical Commentary: The Crucible
*anyone know why Dumas books are not working in ... ... n
1953 British author Sebastian Faulks
Today is the anniversary of the death of:
1912 Bram Stoker author of Dracula
1982 Archibald MacLeish
2005 Fumio Niwa
... trilogy and The Hobbit by Tolkien (35 votes, Duh!)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Rowling (32 votes)
Dracula by Stoker (27 votes)
A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare (25 votes)
Gulliver's Travels by Swift (23 votes)
... Byatt
Possession
by A.S. Byatt
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula
by Bram Stoker
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
The Death of Bernadette Lefthand
by Ron Querry
Three Plays by Thorton Wilder
Snow
by ... Speaking of vampires, I'm about to read Dracula for the first time.
BTW, I must be way too old for this thread. Facebook and Twitter are something I must have missed. Myspace escapes me. And I don't know if I can blog. Am I made for that? ... the MPI DVD set DARK SHADOWS: THE BEGINNING, which runs through the entire pre-Barnabas 1966 season. More Jane Eyre than Dracula, but fascinating. Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Bram Stoker's Dracula spring to mind, probably because they're books I've read. He's right about the Spanish Dracula though.
I have the Dracula Legacy Collection DVD that has both versions and a documentary. The doc talks about how the Mexican crew would come in at night and film on the same sets. They would see what the Americans were doing and attempt to outdo them. Ins ... ... FINISHED
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