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06-04-2003, 10:41 PM | #22 | |
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06-04-2003, 11:03 PM | #23 |
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Tell me about it! I'm saving up my earnings from my parttime job to buy so much stuff to take to Russia: I've bought Foster's Guide to Middle-earth, UT, Tolkien Man and Myth, and a single-volume copy of LOTR recently, and I've still got the HoMe series (Gonna be one BIG order ), a new Silmarillion, a new Hobbit, a copy of Dracula, of course Entlover's Ring of the Dark Elves, a few Zero Mostel shows, a bazillion books about Tolkien and his works, a specific album of Gregorian Chants, I want to purchase the Belgariad and the Malloreon, and now I find all these books! (In case you couldn't tell, I don't plan to go to Russia unprepared )
It's all a matter of seeing how much I can fit in... EG, how do you know Vlad was ugly? Historical accounts?
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06-05-2003, 12:40 AM | #24 | |
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06-05-2003, 12:48 AM | #25 |
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Look forward to it.
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06-08-2003, 04:46 PM | #26 |
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I am so into Dracula. My answers to the survey:
1) I have read Dracula many, many times. 2) and 3)I've seen Nosferatu, the Bela Lugosi version, Hammer's The Horror of Dracula (starring Saruman), the Frank Langella version, and Bram Stoker's Dracula. 4) I've read Dracula's Guest. Other than that, he didn't write any other books on Dracula, though he left the book open for a sequel, he just never got round to it. 5) For me, Dracula is a concept that surpasses his own book or any specific actor's portrayal. I don't know that I PREFER the book to the various films, as the book has its own flaws. 6) My favorite adaptation is Bram Stoker's Dracula, as I think Gary Oldman really nailed it and I love the cheesiness of it all. My sister and I still constantly quote lines from it (in Oldman's and Anthony Hopkins' accents, not to mention Keanu Reeves' accent! Ha!). 7) I think Bram Stoker's Dracula is the closest adaptation, much as it might vary from the novel, as most film versions, such as the Bela Lugosi and Frank Langella ones, are adapted from the stage play rather than the novel. 8) Of course I know my man Vlad Tepes! That out of the way, for those who have read the book, am I the only one who can't stand that Dracula isn't destroyed properly? They stick him with a plain knife and he "vanishes." Why are all those stupid mortals convinced they got him after Van Helsing went into exhaustive detail on how it's done? And if they are dumb enough to think Dracula destroyed, why doesn't Van Helsing correct them? This is why I say the book has flaws. |
06-08-2003, 05:09 PM | #27 |
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"So stake me with a bowie knife and call me Vladimir"
Yup. Bowie knives don't work. He's still around. I'd like to know that too. Really, Van Helsing, why don't you tell them, eh?
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06-09-2003, 12:19 AM | #28 |
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I could be wrong, but didn't they cut off his head, too? I thought either method could be used.
-checks book- "But, on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan's great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat."
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06-09-2003, 04:17 PM | #29 |
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The wording is ambiguous. They don't explicitly say that his head was cut off.
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06-09-2003, 04:19 PM | #30 |
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My book is here!
I just got In Search of Dracula. Yay. Lots of reading about Vlad, about Bram Stoker, about the movies. Excellent.
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06-09-2003, 04:51 PM | #31 | |
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Grats, EG. Never can have too much Dracula, can ya?
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06-09-2003, 05:15 PM | #32 | |
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06-09-2003, 06:51 PM | #33 |
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Really? What language are they in?
My library will be primarily composed of Tolkien.
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06-09-2003, 07:05 PM | #34 |
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Romanian, Russian, German. . .can't really tell with a few of them. . .heheh.
Well, I have a good portion of my Tolkien library, and the rest will be vampire lore, other mythology, history, and philosophy. I like having a nice range.
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06-09-2003, 07:19 PM | #35 |
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Yes, other mythology is a must, with Ring of the Dark Elves standing in a place of honour.
Definitely will have Dracula, maybe a few other editions. And various other works of Stoker's.
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06-09-2003, 07:21 PM | #36 |
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Oh, and lots of Oscar Wilde and Shakespeare. Forgot that bit. In addition to Dracula. heheh. I got my copy of Dracula at this nice used bookstore in Alaska.
Why am I saying this? I have no idea. Probably spamming now. I stop!
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06-09-2003, 07:23 PM | #37 |
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Yeah, I'd just noticed that we were the last half dozen or so posts....
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06-09-2003, 07:24 PM | #38 |
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Eight, actually.
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06-09-2003, 09:41 PM | #39 |
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I said "or so".
(Shutting up now)
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06-09-2003, 09:51 PM | #40 |
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Well, now it's ten.
really going to stop now...honest! By the way, I started Dracula again. Am loving it so very much.
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