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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 11:33:58 GMT
Forget the movies and t.v. specials. Which of the two books do you like the best. I am pretty sure that you have all read them.
Remarkable novels in their time and even today they are (in my opinion) a pair of classics.
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Post by rayge on Oct 8, 2021 11:42:08 GMT
Nah, I haven't read either of them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 11:59:17 GMT
Nah, I haven't read either of them. With the darker nights drawing in Ray now would be an excellent time to visit them. |
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Post by fange on Oct 8, 2021 12:01:12 GMT
I am sure i read both way back in my Eng. Lit. course Uni days, but bugger me if i can remember them at all. Maybe i'll reread them... if i ever get the time.
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Post by DarknessFish on Oct 8, 2021 12:07:23 GMT
Dracula is the easier read, it's a less-flowery boys-own adventure story. The ending feels really unrewarding and rushed though, it's just a kind of "and we did catch him and kill him the end."
Frankenstein is basically a Morrissey travelogue, a self-important cock waffling on about how no-one understands him and will never love him, in overly-verbose ways.
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Post by rayge on Oct 8, 2021 12:17:39 GMT
Nah, I haven't read either of them. With the darker nights drawing in Ray now would be an excellent time to visit them. No thanks. I dipped into them both in the past and thought neither were worth my time. These days I'm only interested in funny |
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Post by fearlessfreap on Oct 8, 2021 12:27:58 GMT
I haven't read either of them. The first Hammer Dracula is better than the Lugosi one, or the original Frankenstein, the Bride Of Frankenstein is pretty great, though. Frankenberry vs. Count Chocula? It's a toss-up.
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Post by oh oooh on Oct 8, 2021 12:30:56 GMT
I went to see the Lugosi Dracula about 12 years ago, midnight showing at a film festival. The audience PISSED themselves the whole way through
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Post by bungo the mungo on Oct 8, 2021 12:53:09 GMT
i've never read any of them either, despite being a big fan of turn of the century supernatural fiction.
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Oct 8, 2021 12:57:10 GMT
The ending feels really unrewarding and rushed though, it's just a kind of "and we did catch him and kill him the end." Oh ffs. I just started it. |
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Post by fonz on Oct 8, 2021 13:59:36 GMT
i've never read any of them either, despite being a big fan of turn of the century supernatural fiction. Yeah, I’m a massive football fan, but strangely, never seen a game. Not even on TV. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 14:11:42 GMT
I haven't read any either.
Of the two I'd probably be more interested in Frankenstein because I find Mary Shelley an interesting figure, and I'm a fan of The Romantics generally.
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Post by sloopjohnc on Oct 8, 2021 14:52:38 GMT
Nah, I haven't read either of them. I'm surprised. There are lots of big words in both, especially the Shelley one.  |
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Post by sloopjohnc on Oct 8, 2021 14:54:36 GMT
I'm surprised at so many people not reading them. I read them on my own when I was 14 or 15. The Shelley one was kinda hard to get through, because of the language, but it's definitely the most literary of the two, philosophizing about mankind, science and shit.
Dracula is just a page turner, albeit a good one.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2021 15:21:14 GMT
Nah, I haven't read either of them. I'm surprised. There are lots of big words in both, especially the Shelley one. Even the title is a big word. She should've gone for a populist appeal and called it 'Frank'. |
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