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Originally Posted by ebusinesstutor
And the original Dracula book was much scarier than the campy vampire horror shows I used to watch.
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Must have missed
Nosferatu?
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Originally Posted by Anke Wehner
I always thought Peter Pan was a fun little adventure.
When I read the ctual book, the titular hero was bloody creepy.
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Peter Pan was written books children were still supposed to educate [scare] children into proper behavior. Proper from the point of view of parents and adults. Good things happen to good well behaved children. Bad things happen to rebellious children who misbehave.
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Originally Posted by Andrew H.
I was appalled by the heliocentric bit in Holmes when I read it for the first time in 5th grade - I still remember where I was (school library) when I read that bit because it was so shocking to me at the time.
But, really, I think it's an example of flawed writing by Doyle. The heliocentric model was well accepted by the general public in the 1680's - more than 200 years before Holmes's 1890 world. Anyone in the Victorian era who had been to school knew that the Earth rotated around the sun; it's just not believable that Holmes did not already know this.
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In fairness to Doyle I have always thought that he wrote this to illustrate Holmes' narrow minded devotion to the business of being the worlds greatest deductive detective. No not realistic.