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03-15-2013, 02:33 PM | #15933 |
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03-15-2013, 03:35 PM | #15934 |
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I've started Joyce Carol Oates' The Accursed - I admit I was intrigued by a review that announced Oates had finally written a vampire novel. It's a very odd read - dealing with events that occurred at Princeton around 1905 - with "real life" characters, such as Woodrow Wilson and Upton Sinclair, and actual historical events -- with an added curse thrown in. The writing style is intentionally archaic -- much like her style in Bellefleur and The Mysteries of Winterthurn - and she can channel Henry James' elongated sentence syntax quite handily. The tale is related by an unreliable historian - and so far I've encountered lynchings, a spectral bride, a demon bridegroom, and numerous "vampiric" manisfestations of the dead. Not to mention Wilson's hypochondria and opiate addiction. Quite a fun & intriguing read!
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I also had a lot of fun reading The Black Lung Captain and its daemonic content got me in the mood to revisit Diana Rowland's Kara Gillian series with the 3rd book, Secrets of the Demon which is up next! I'm also going to read the 14th Nancy Drew Mystery, The Whispering Statue! |
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03-16-2013, 01:16 AM | #15938 |
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I am really enjoying Ariana Franklin's Mistress of the Art of Death series, a mystery series about a female Sicilian anatomist set in England of the 1100's
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03-16-2013, 01:31 AM | #15939 |
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My Mom would agree with you there pdurrant. When she was in High School she had to read Julius Caesar for class and thought it boring, then yrs later she saw a performance on TV of the play and it was a whole other situation.
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Currently reading The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Six.
So far: The Case of Death and Honey by Neil Gaiman is an excellent bit of Sherlock Holmes fiction involving death and bees (somewhat obviously). The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu is, as described in the title, also about bees, though more as metaphor for human society -- very good. Tidal Forces by Caitlin R. Kiernan was too abstract for me, and I ended up skipping it after a few pages. Younger Women by Karen Joy Fowler was a surprisingly decent and sinister take on the "young vampire in love" story. It's been a good, but not yet excellent, short story collection, with Neil Gaiman's offering as a real standout. Last edited by carld; 03-16-2013 at 05:17 AM. |
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I thought the book opened well, it is an interesting idea. Then I found it slow going for a while, but it finally picked up again in the last third. I'm not in a hurry to read it again, but not sorry to have read it once. Guess it's not surprising that any movie adaptation would aim at a lower age bracket than the book - presumably targeting the audience that went to Twilight. When I read the novel I never got the impression that that was what Meyer intended. |
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