(no subject)
Nov. 9th, 2006 07:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiants![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
cupenny = best birthdaytwin ever. :D Her present is currently marking my spot in the copy of Dracula I am reading for class.As re: Dracula - reading it for the first time in several years and having so much fun. This book makes me laugh lots and that is why I love it. Oh, that wacky Jonathan Harker. I have also been informed that we are watching clips from 'Buffy vs. Dracula' in class for the discussion, which: HAHAHAHA.
However. Dorm bathrooms? I have no problem with conserving energy; however, switching the lights off suddenly when I am naked and in the shower, especially when I have just been reading Dracula, is not, as you might think, wildly entertaining. No love, me.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 02:37 am (UTC)Though I have yet to get to anything more fun than
Bram Stoker being all "LOOK! LOOK, I RESEARCHED TRANSYLVANIA! THIS IS WHAT TRANSYLVANIA'S LIKE, GUYS! I KNOW BECAUSE I DID RESEARCH!!!"Jonathan Harker waxing lyrical about the countryside and all those quaint susperstitious peasants.no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 02:46 am (UTC)And the first few pages of the book are awesome! *snickering* I mean. It is like,
Jonathan Harker: La la la. Transylvania is pretty.
Peasants: You're going to die.
Jonathan Harker: These peasants are so quaint. I must note down that goulash recipe for Mina. Oh dear! I am having bad dreams of a future dark and terrible fate.
Peasants: This is because you are going to die. Hello, Transylania? HERE THERE BE VAMPIRES.
Jonathan Harker: It must have been the goulash. Darn foreign foods.
Peasants: Yes. LIKE YOUR BLOOD.
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:39 am (UTC)Also I have the huge annotated edition edited by Leonard Wolf, so there are scads of footnotes which are occasionally awesome vampire lore trilogy but are sometimes details from Transylvanian travel guides or recipes for all the food Harker keeps describing. It's like "LOOK I RESEARCHED TRANSYLVANIA TOO AND MORE THOROUGHLY AND IN THE 2OTH CENTURY, TAKE THAT STOKER!!"
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:46 am (UTC)- I mean. Um. *coughs and sidles out of Realm of Geekitude* (The footnotes in my version are all like, 'the New Woman! She rode bicycles! And smoked! And ... yeah, that's that.)
Melodramatic vampiric hijinks will commence shortly, do not fear! But there still remain the classic Harknerian gems. *fond* Other favorite part of the book -
Dracula: *STORMS IN, ALMOST DRINKS JONATHON'S BLOOD, BREAKS MIRROR IN WHICH HIS REFLECTION DOES NOT APPEAR*
Jonathan: It is very annoying, for I do not see how I am to shave now. D:
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 06:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 02:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 02:49 am (UTC)Epistolary novels are so much fun.
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 02:53 am (UTC)Close second is Van Helsing, who is just hilarious sometimes.
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 02:59 am (UTC)(I just reread past the part where Van Helsing is like "haha! Polygamy is wacky fun!" Oh, I love him.)
I also just start giggling every time Quincy shows up. Because why is there a Texan cowboy in this novel. Why.
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:05 am (UTC)HE IS COWBOY GUY!
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:35 am (UTC)...I have perhaps been skipping around a bit.
I have perhaps been skipping around enough of a bit to declare Van Helsing the wacky bad-English-speaking vampire-hunting professor of my heart.
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:40 am (UTC)But. Yes. Van Helsing = crazy crazy love. Even if, you know, he's
**SPOILER**
not the most competent at, like, actually keeping vampire victims alive. >.> *pats Lucy*
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 07:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 02:50 am (UTC)Watch it?
I wrote a paper on it, my friend.
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:13 am (UTC)But at least there was lesbian subtext? I mean, there are much more horrible ways to go.
It might have even balanced out cavorting Anthony Hopkins. But nothing can overcome
NeoKeanu as Johnathan.no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:29 am (UTC)Oh, Keanu Reaves.
Your face is like unto a
Block of uncarved wood.
I was reading the book this time around, and thinking wistfully of what different casting would have done for Jonathan.
NorringtonJack Davenport! He would have pulled off the Cheerfully Oblivious Lawyeritude with style.no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:30 am (UTC)See above, re: polygamy and random cowboys!
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:35 am (UTC)And why is there no escape from the cowboy??!! *flails*
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:48 am (UTC)im in ur novels
mutilatin ur american slang
Says the Becca: Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde are both so worth reading. Personally, I loathe Frankenstein, but opinions on this differ!
no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 03:56 am (UTC)screamsgiggles*no subject
Date: 2006-11-10 07:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-11 07:42 pm (UTC)I believe the significant difference is that in Dracula, the quaint eccentricities and occasional stupidities of the characters make me want to pat them fondly on the head. In Frankenstein, they make me want to beat Victor Frankenstein to death with a poker.