Comments on: Stoking the Fires re Stoker http://lestersmith.com/2009/01/08/stoking-the-fires-re-stoker/ A convergence of poetry, game design, and Web tech. Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:02:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Is Twilight better than Dracula? | The Hungry Dead http://lestersmith.com/2009/01/08/stoking-the-fires-re-stoker/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Is Twilight better than Dracula? | The Hungry Dead Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:38:48 +0000 http://lestersmith.com/?p=266#comment-315 [...] I’d ask that you read my various posts (1, 2, 3, & 4) about the experience of rereading Dracula recently. They lay out what I see as both the strengths [...] [...] I’d ask that you read my various posts (1, 2, 3, & 4) about the experience of rereading Dracula recently. They lay out what I see as both the strengths [...]

]]> By: Is Twilight better than Dracula? « LesterSmith.com http://lestersmith.com/2009/01/08/stoking-the-fires-re-stoker/comment-page-1/#comment-309 Is Twilight better than Dracula? « LesterSmith.com Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:26:31 +0000 http://lestersmith.com/?p=266#comment-309 [...] I’d ask that you read my various posts (1, 2, & 3) about the experience of rereading Dracula recently. They lay out what I see as both the strengths [...] [...] I’d ask that you read my various posts (1, 2, & 3) about the experience of rereading Dracula recently. They lay out what I see as both the strengths [...]

]]> By: Steven http://lestersmith.com/2009/01/08/stoking-the-fires-re-stoker/comment-page-1/#comment-137 Steven Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:33:11 +0000 http://lestersmith.com/?p=266#comment-137 I've given up on Rice myself, but I wanted to mention that Dark Horse has brought back a marvelous edition of FRANKENSTEIN with all the black/white Bernie Wrightson illustrations and the full Mary Shelley text. Beautiful book that came out in November, and I only just saw a copy yesterday. Must have, even though I have the softcover edition of this from the 1980s, because I likes me the hardcover. http://tinyurl.com/9oz4ts Steven who knows the discussion was on Dracula but figured he'd slip in another classic I’ve given up on Rice myself, but I wanted to mention that Dark Horse has brought back a marvelous edition of FRANKENSTEIN with all the black/white Bernie Wrightson illustrations and the full Mary Shelley text. Beautiful book that came out in November, and I only just saw a copy yesterday. Must have, even though I have the softcover edition of this from the 1980s, because I likes me the hardcover.

http://tinyurl.com/9oz4ts

Steven
who knows the discussion was on Dracula but figured he’d slip in another classic

]]> By: Lester http://lestersmith.com/2009/01/08/stoking-the-fires-re-stoker/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Lester Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:10:55 +0000 http://lestersmith.com/?p=266#comment-135 Well, at least I had you up till then. :-) Re <i>Interview with a Vampire,</i> it's an odd duck in that <i>The Vampire Lestat</i> pretty much retells the same tale, though much more convincingly. Lestat is Rice's protagonist through her primary novels, from <i>TVL</i> through <i>Memnoch the Damned,</i> which is something of a modern Dante's <i>Inferno.</i> <i>IwaV</i> reads like a test run before she really got her legs under her---or before she managed to drop the air of florid erotica in which she apparently got her start as a writer. <i>Interview</i> left me a little cold, too, but <i>Lestat</i> more than made up for it, leading me to read pretty much everything since (including <i>Servant of the Bones</i> and <i>The Mummy: or Ramses the Damned</i>, both very good), right up to <i>Blackwood Farm,</i> in which, as far as I can tell, a zillion characters pretty much do nothing. Well, at least I had you up till then. :-) Re Interview with a Vampire, it’s an odd duck in that The Vampire Lestat pretty much retells the same tale, though much more convincingly. Lestat is Rice’s protagonist through her primary novels, from TVL through Memnoch the Damned, which is something of a modern Dante’s Inferno. IwaV reads like a test run before she really got her legs under her—or before she managed to drop the air of florid erotica in which she apparently got her start as a writer. Interview left me a little cold, too, but Lestat more than made up for it, leading me to read pretty much everything since (including Servant of the Bones and The Mummy: or Ramses the Damned, both very good), right up to Blackwood Farm, in which, as far as I can tell, a zillion characters pretty much do nothing.

]]> By: Matt Forbeck http://lestersmith.com/2009/01/08/stoking-the-fires-re-stoker/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Matt Forbeck Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:25:31 +0000 http://lestersmith.com/?p=266#comment-134 You had me right up until the Anne Rice bit. I only read <em>Interview with a Vampire</em>, but it had much of the same overwrought angst you find in <em>Dracula</em>. I spent the entire book waiting for something to happen, only for it to end without it. Perhaps Rice's later novels deliver more on their promises, but at least Stoker gives us a dramatic finish. You had me right up until the Anne Rice bit. I only read Interview with a Vampire, but it had much of the same overwrought angst you find in Dracula. I spent the entire book waiting for something to happen, only for it to end without it. Perhaps Rice’s later novels deliver more on their promises, but at least Stoker gives us a dramatic finish.

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