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Post by filly on Jan 21, 2010 11:15:40 GMT -5
Wow, I've never read this book and it's actually really really good! I've read almost half of it already. Granted there is a lot of vocab I don't know and slang, etc, but I'm loving the suspense as he builds it. I've seen all the movies, etc but I wanted to read the real version and boy is it different so far than any of the movies. I hadn't realized either that Van Helsing was an actual character in the book either.
High recommend. I know, half of you are thinking I'm crazy and dry lit, etc. but I really am enjoying this.
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Post by samantha on Jan 21, 2010 11:30:07 GMT -5
Ooh I am so going to read that!! Thanks for the tip- I wasn't sure if I would like it or not, but hearing this I am definitely going to check it out.
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Post by Bara on Jan 21, 2010 13:34:58 GMT -5
Welcome to my world. Next try the original Mary Shelley Frankenstein...
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Post by filly on Jan 21, 2010 14:12:38 GMT -5
Ha, Bara, that's what all the lit teachers are saying here as well! It will definitely be next on my list!  |
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Post by adcooper on Jan 21, 2010 19:52:59 GMT -5
Good, and when you're done with the Gothic books, come to me for the Dickens seminar. Do you know I had an insane lit professor in grad school who made us read 7 Dickens novels in 10 weeks...and write a publishable paper at the end. Truth is, I've forgotten almost all of it. Maybe we'd better focus on kiddie lit in my class!
Seriously, filly. Those old books are much more engaging and readable than people suspect. Dramatic, too!
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Post by filly on Jan 22, 2010 1:23:20 GMT -5
I LOOOOOVE Dickens and have read most of his stuff as I love it! Hehehehe And William Shakespeare as well as a ton of Ernest Hemingway. I'm almost at the end of Dracula and I'm loving the drama in it totally! They are on the way to Count Dracula's castle...woohoo!
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Post by Bara on Jan 22, 2010 9:23:28 GMT -5
I love reading your posts here, Filly and Sam!
Did you know there was a real Count Dracula? I doubt whether he turned into a bat and slept in a coffin, but he was certainly very nasty.
I think he actually did live in Transylvania.
Look up 'Vlad The Impaler'. Says it all, really. Ann will correct me if I'm mish-mashing the facts!
Enjoy your gothic reading, just don't dye your hair black, paint your faces white or put safety pins through your body parts!
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Post by elizabeth_h on Jan 22, 2010 10:18:45 GMT -5
I read that many years ago and loved it!
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Post by adcooper on Jan 23, 2010 10:13:31 GMT -5
Filly, if you love Dickens, read Wilke Collins. You'll like The Moonstone.
Bara, I'm not correcting a word! I shall call you Professor.
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Post by Bara on Jan 23, 2010 13:01:55 GMT -5
And The Woman in White... Wilkie Collins.
Mis-spent youth, Ann and I, the pair of us!
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Post by filly on Jan 23, 2010 17:26:52 GMT -5
Wow, just finished that and all I can say is wow! I was on the edge of my seat the last hundred pages of the book for sure! Now I'm sad it's over. I'm gonna have to get to the library today and check out some books on Wilke Collins. Thanks ladies for the suggestions!
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Post by Skye Pilot on Apr 15, 2010 5:56:55 GMT -5
It's a wonderful book!
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