Over on Twitter, a fascinating ongoing story about a Sun editorial, and the plot and motivation of the characters in "Frankenstein, or, A Modern Prometheus"
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I'm not convinced that everyone taking the piss out of the Sun will have read Frankenstein from cover to cover themselves.
Having said that, I've got a degree in English Literature and the whole thing was essentially a test of nerve in which the students sought to prevent the tutors from being able to establish beyond doubt that they hadn't read the works under discussion that week.
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Righteous reasoning there.
Originally posted by ooh aah View PostEvery time something goes slightly wrong he becomes incapacitated by nervous exhaustion for weeks on end. I don't know whether Mary was taking the piss out of Shelley and Byron, but it's how I read it.
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Frankenstein is a decent read though (at least the original 1818 edition). Dracula though, Jesus that’s pure shite. Hack is too kind a word for that fusty Tory wank Stoker. The only decent bits are ripped off from the far superior Camilla by Le Fanu. If you only read one lesbian flavoured vampire story by an Irish Unionist, make it this one.
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Originally posted by ad hoc View PostI like Dracula. I mean I know that's a cliche given where I live
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Yes the tourism side of Dracula is ludicrous. Especially since it's presented like he was a real person and it has zero to do with the book at all.
"Dracula's Castle" as promoted by the Romanian tourist office (in Bran) is nowhere close to where anything in the book takes place and gets its name because maybe just possibly there is a small chance that Vlad Tepes once might have spent a single night there
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Originally posted by ooh aah View PostFrankenstein is brilliant though. Every time something goes slightly wrong he becomes incapacitated by nervous exhaustion for weeks on end. I don't know whether Mary was taking the piss out of Shelley and Byron, but it's how I read it.
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The 1818 version is indeed brilliant, and so is Dracula, for the very different reasons ad hoc describes.
Do not bother reading The Last Man, which is the novel Mary Shelley wrote after Frankenstein. It's an interesting premise, but it's literally about 450 pages too long (it's about 980 pages in total).
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