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It's very hard to find S&S where I live; matter of fact, I happened upon my treasured copy of THE SCREAM quite by accident. I don't have access to Amazon, but if i went to Books-A-Million to order a copy, would they be able to get hold of it for me? I don't do much ordering of books so I am genuinely curious.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2000 7:17 pm Post subject: |
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That settles it. I'll grab THE LIGHT AT THE END on the next trip out. Thanks a million.
Phango, I don't have any BOOKS-A-MILLION near my house, however I have been to one. I'm not sure if they'll be able to get you a copy of S&S books or not. I know that Borders and Barnes & Nobel can't but may B-A-M can. Never hurts to try.
But, if that doesn't work out, I know that my local used bookstore has tons of their books and if you don't mind them used, I can get some to you. Just give me an email and it will be done.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2000 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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Slow goin'. I'm still reading this (Dracula), not much left now, but I must say it has been tedious going and I've not made much daily headway in it.
Misty, did you really read this one first time when you were 8 years old? Then you must in all truth be a Midnight Queen. Cheerio to you, lass.
I love it so far, I guess some of my slowness is due to me being more into contemporary horror so this prose and style is harder to devour for me.
Oh yeah, Mr Self Affliction. You betcha this one is different from the movie. Like, topsy turvy different. That's how much different it is. I'm not bothering to go any longer into that. To many other messages to respond to today. I'll finish Dracula before not too many days is the plan. And I'll bring up some of the books strong and weaker points then.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2000 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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I understand Fenny. I understand.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2000 7:00 am Post subject: |
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Hey people! I know I haven't been on here for like ever but I thought I'd see what everybody is up to. Fenny did u finish Dracula? I hope u liked it. And yes I did read it when I was 8. Well that's about it for now. I'm glad I'm back. LOL
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2000 9:53 am Post subject: |
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Also, Dr. John Polidori's, the Vampyre, is a very similar story to Dracula, and it was inspired by the same night of ghost stories in Switzerland that inspired Frankenstein, so it was obviously much earlier.
Keep in mind, too, that Robert Silverberg wrote a story about cloning dinosaurs and having them rampage out of a park some 15 years before Jurassic Park. (Although Silverberg's story was about after the fall, when the dinosaurs have been moved into orbit.) My point is, that Dracula, like Jurassic Park, was not first, but was fabulously successful(as was the play from the novel) so it's sort of the source of the vampire "archetype" that we all carry in our head. Which is why you have to read it. For the same reason you have to either see or read Hamlet at some point. That is, you need it to be culturally literate, to know what's original, what's stolen, and what's tribute. Oh yeah, also so you can verbally trash the new Dracula film every ten years or so.
Interesting though, that the Frankenstein archetype seems to be the Karloff monster more than the tortured, articulate creature from the novel.
Then again, I'm totally full or crap.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2000 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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All right, all right. I've been broken down. When Christopher Moore (full of crap or not) says that you have to read Dracula to be culturally literate than I guess I better read Dracula. I'll be pulling it off the shelf later today and will be getting to it within the month or so.
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