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Bram Stoker's Dracula

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suzywong · 01/04/2006 15:10

Anyone care to join me and spacedonkey for a reading?
That's a reading in private without lips moving and a discussion online?

Hmmm?

Any takers?

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CarolinaMooncup · 01/04/2006 15:14

oooh, I'll be watching this one. I read it a couple of years ago and really enjoyed it (mostly Smile). It is v atmospheric.

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suzywong · 01/04/2006 15:16

get it off the shelf and read it again!

We won't allude to Gary Oldman or, the very pretty but very wooden, Keanu.

do join us, we are planning to get in synch by both being on chapter 2 by Monday

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CarolinaMooncup · 01/04/2006 15:19

lol, I will flick through to refresh my memory, is that ok Miss?

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suzywong · 01/04/2006 15:22

Yes that is fine
glad to see you have cottoned on to who is actually in charge here, spacedonkey may try to usurp my power over the course of this thread but you know who's really the boss Wink

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ItalianJob · 01/04/2006 15:26

hmmmm if I read it again I'll want to go to Whitby, but I don't suppose that's really a major disadvantage per se. Count me in, I hope they still do cheap wordsworth type £1.50 versions!

CarolinaMooncup · 01/04/2006 15:33

that's what I've got, IJ, and I bought it in Whitby Smile.

(don't go thinking I'm one of those goths wandering round the jet shops with too much eyeliner and brown roots showing through black hair though).

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suzywong · 01/04/2006 15:35

oh hurrah we have a gang!

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ItalianJob · 01/04/2006 15:35

jet (sigh) I love jet jewellery (my engagement ring is a black jet teardrop gold ring that we bought in Whitby seveal years ago). Can't be bothered with dying my hair black or wearing lots of eyeliner though!

FastasleepTheAprilFool · 01/04/2006 15:39

Love Whitby! I shall get it out and dust it off, if I get chance...

spacedonkey · 01/04/2006 15:48

huzzah!

SorenLorensen · 01/04/2006 15:56

Think I'm all vampired out for now - just finished "The Historian" by Elizabeth Kostova. I may butt in and offer smart arse comments even though I haven't read it for about 15 years though.

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suzywong · 01/04/2006 15:59

oh please do, your smart arse comments are always a treat

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CarolinaMooncup · 01/04/2006 15:59

oooh lovely, IJ. Have you read Possession? That has a nice Whitby section IIRC.

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suzywong · 01/04/2006 16:00

Is that AS Byatt? I couldn't get into that, is it good?

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ItalianJob · 01/04/2006 16:00

No, have never been arsed to read it (have seen the film, racking my brains now as to whether there were any scenes in Whitby)

SorenLorensen · 01/04/2006 16:10

I thank you, Ms Wong Smile

SorenLorensen · 01/04/2006 16:10

I gave up on Possession.

ItalianJob · 01/04/2006 16:16

SL - you have inspired me with an idea for a new thread!

CarolinaMooncup · 01/04/2006 16:19

yes, it is AS Byatt and it is fab. A bit heavy going at times, but you can skip the longer poems if you can't be arsed. The rest is so well worth it.

They were setting up to film a bit of the film version last time I was in Whitby, at the jet shop at the bottom of the steps up to the abbey - don't know if it made the cut though.

spacedonkey · 02/04/2006 10:31

Here's my first question then ... how is it possible to read Dracula without images of Peter Cushing/Christopher Lee/Gary Oldman et al looming in one's mind's eye?

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suzywong · 02/04/2006 10:33

It ain't, love, it just isn't

I am greatly enjoying the journey to the Borgovo ? Pass
I didn't twig that the coachman and the count are one and the same.

I also have keanu and gary in my mind's eye

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spacedonkey · 02/04/2006 10:35

Shock coachman and count one and the same?!

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suzywong · 02/04/2006 10:35

And another question: are you reading the preface and the introduction?

I have the new Penguin edition with the Munch picture on the front, I read the preface which is cheifly about Stoker but I don't think I'll bother with the more analytical introduction

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spacedonkey · 02/04/2006 10:35

I have the same edition and no, I haven't read the intro or preface ... I never do until I've read the whole book - is that very wrong?

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suzywong · 02/04/2006 11:17

no
that is OK

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