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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 18, 2021 19:49:20 GMT
Another charity shop regular - at least for a while - was Dacre Stoker's The Undead or whatever that official "official sequel" to Dracula was called (as opposed to earlier "official sequels" that weren't). Yeah, that's another one that I saw quite often but it never made it out of the shop with me. I did pick up Elizabeth Kostavo's The Historian (2005) though - I don't remember anything about it now other than it had something to do with Dracula, and wasn't up to much.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 18, 2021 20:00:29 GMT
"The rats had had their fill of his body, but were still hungry. So they searched. Searched for more food of the same kind. They had tasted their first human blood."
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Post by dem bones on Dec 19, 2021 11:19:06 GMT
"I will read you their names directly; here they are, in my pocketbook. Confessions of a Window Cleaner, Confessions of a Driving Instructor, Confessions From a Nudist Colony, Confessions of a Plumber's Mate, Confessions of a Travelling Salesman, Confessions of a Film Extra, and Confessions From a Haunted House. Those will last us some time." "Yes, pretty well; but are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid?" I'm no expert, so you may feel that this selection could be improved. Please suggest alternatives if you feel I have left out the cream of these. When she's through with the above, our heroine might like to try Confessions from the Pop Scene, Rosie Dixon: Confessions of a Lady Courier, Carry on Emmanuelle, The Ups and Downs of a Handyman, Keep It Up Downstairs, Confessions from the Olympics and (please approach with all due caution) Jim Moffat's Queen Kong. But I wouldn't advise it
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Post by andydecker on Dec 19, 2021 12:59:27 GMT
and (please approach with all due caution) Jim Moffat's Queen Kong. But I wouldn't advise it Another one for my want list!
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Post by helrunar on Dec 19, 2021 15:05:28 GMT
Carry On Emmanuelle ... I'm laughing just at the thought of the pages of arch, now timeworn sleaze that book must hold.
Queen Kong is infamous for its vileness--so of course it is a "cult" to some.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 19, 2021 15:17:11 GMT
Princess, you may wish to investigate further Sydney, Lady Morgan, whose memoir Italy features on your copy of the Catholic Index of prohibited books. Some excerpts from an online source purporting to quote from an old encyclopaedia entry:
In 1798 the Owenson family was experiencing some financial hardships and Sydney was forced to leave home in search of employment. She was hired as a governess by the Featherstones of Bracklyn Castle, County Westmeath. In this environment, she blossomed into an avid reader, a capable conversationalist, and an unabashed performer of songs and dances. It was at this period in her life that she began her writing career.
She was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures of her generation. She began her career with a precocious volume of poems. ... But the book which made her reputation and brought her name into warm controversy was The Wild Irish Girl (1806), in which she appeared as the ardent champion of her native country, a politician rather than a novelist, extolling the beauty of Irish scenery, the richness of the natural wealth of Ireland, and the noble traditions of its early history. She was known in Catholic and Liberal circles by the name of her heroine Gloria.
In 1814 she produced her best novel, O'Donnell. She was at her best in her descriptions of the poorer classes, of whom she had a thorough knowledge. Her elaborate study (1817) of France under the Bourbon Restoration was attacked with outrageous fury by John Wilson Croker in the Quarterly Review, the author being accused of Jacobinism, falsehood, licentiousness, and impiety. She took her revenge indirectly in the novel Florence Macarthy (1818) ātranslated into French by Jacques-ThĆ©odore Parisotā, in which a Quarterly reviewer, Con Crawley, is insulted with supreme feminine ingenuity. ...
There is a bust of Lady Morgan in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The plaque identifying the bust mentions that Lady Morgan was "less than four feet tall."
How can there not be a current Netflix series in production about the adventures of Lady Gloria Morgan??
cheers, H.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 19, 2021 15:22:16 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Dec 19, 2021 15:34:19 GMT
LOL, Princess! Obviously there have been many James Moffatts walking the earth... too amusing.
cheers, Hel.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 19, 2021 15:52:29 GMT
LOL, Princess! Obviously there have been many James Moffatts walking the earth... too amusing. cheers, Hel. It's what happens on sites where you rely on the users to add the information. It's fun when their actual work is so unlike the possible authors. James Moffat you will know. James Moffat (27 January 1922 ā 8 November 1993)[2][3] was a Canadian-born British writer who wrote at least 290 novels in several genres under at least 45 pseudonyms". He wrote Boot Boys as Richard Allen. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moffat_(author)
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 20, 2021 12:41:40 GMT
Another charity shop regular - at least for a while - was Dacre Stoker's The Undead or whatever that official "official sequel" to Dracula was called (as opposed to earlier "official sequels" that weren't). Yeah, that's another one that I saw quite often but it never made it out of the shop with me. I did pick up Elizabeth Kostavo's The Historian (2005) though - I don't remember anything about it now other than it had something to do with Dracula, and wasn't up to much. Going by memory, Dracula the Un-Dead was written to establish some sort of ownership/copyright of the character of Dracula with a supposed relative of Bram Stoker. It is very bad novel, inconsistent with the original in many ways, and obviously written with the aim of making a film as it full of action scenes that would need CGI. The situation is like that of the Arthur Conan Doyle estate contracting Anthony Horowitz to write The House of Silk to establish the Doyle ownership of of the character of Sherlock Holmes. Each book is cynical hackwork. It is significant that The Sherlock Holmes Journal gave The House of Silk a (deserved) bad review: www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/7826937/i-am-an-omnivorous-reader-the-sherlock-holmes-society-of-london
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 20, 2021 12:53:12 GMT
Has anyone here read the "Icelandic Version" of Dracula, Powers of Darkness? - linkI've been tempted a few times, but never made the leap. It sounds both intriguing and potentially awful.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 20, 2021 13:20:39 GMT
So "Dacre Stoker" is a hack poseur? I never bothered even to look at the book in the shops--there was a whiff of something not at all right about that.
H.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 20, 2021 13:28:57 GMT
So "Dacre Stoker" is a hack poseur? I never bothered even to look at the book in the shops--there was a whiff of something not at all right about that. H. Apparently he is not even a relative of Bram Stoker.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 20, 2021 13:33:55 GMT
Has anyone here read the "Icelandic Version" of Dracula, Powers of Darkness? - linkI've been tempted a few times, but never made the leap. It sounds both intriguing and potentially awful. I found a copy on my ebook site. From book: In 1901 Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ćsmundsson set out to translate Bram Stokerās classic novel, Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna, this Icelandic version was unnoticed outside the country until 1986, when Dracula scholars discovered Stokerās original preface to the book. It was not until 2014, however, that noted Dracula scholar Hans Corneel de Roos realized that Ćsmundsson hadnāt merely translated Dracula but had, rather, penned an entirely new version of the story, with some all-new characters and a re-worked plot. The resulting narrative is one that is shorter, punchier, more erotic, and rivals the original in terms of suspense. Powers of Darkness marks the first ever translation into English of Makt Myrkranna. This volume includes the translation of the main text of the novel, thor- ough annotations that mark changes from the original text and other fascinating items of note, an introduction by Hans de Roos, a foreword by Dacre Stoker, an afterword by John Edgar Browning, and numerous illustrations, historical and new, including original illustations by de Roos of Draculaās castle. Icelandic Nobel Prize winner HalldĆ³r Laxness praised Powers of Darkness as one of the best works of Icelandic literature, drawing inspiration from it in the writ- ing of his Under the Glacier. Stokerās great grand-nephew Dacre Stoker aptly writes: āThe resurrection of Makt Myrkranna illustrates another example of Draculaās immortality.ā Delivering all the dark glamour one expects from a cornerstone of Gothic literature, and drawing inspiration from Nordic sagas and myths, Powers of Darkness is truly a major literary rediscovery and a thrilling and essential new addi- tion to the Dracula canon.
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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 20, 2021 13:36:47 GMT
So "Dacre Stoker" is a hack poseur? I never bothered even to look at the book in the shops--there was a whiff of something not at all right about that. H. Apparently he is not even a relative of Bram Stoker. Isn't he? Where did you hear that?
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