📖 What are people reading?

MichaelStockin said:
Well to be controversial?
I tried reading Dracula the other month, but I found it too slow and laborious.
I gave up in the end.
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I did struggle on first read, there was a lack of heaving boosoms, hammer films ruined me.

Took me a few goes to get through Frankenstein, glad I did though, think I was too young to get how he felt being an outsider, alone, different and not belonging. ☹️

Aaaand I've just bummed myself out, time to pet the bunny to cheer myself up.
 
Slave to Darkness said:
I did struggle on first read, there was a lack of heaving boosoms, hammer films ruined me.

Took me a few goes to get through Frankenstein, glad I did though, think I was too young to get how he felt being an outsider, alone, different and not belonging. ☹️

Aaaand I've just bummed myself out, time to pet the bunny to cheer myself up.
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You know, I really should read that one of these days. Does he have a rabbit? There's a moment when he grabs up a major character in Zelazny's Lonesome October and begins to pet her, to her great dismay. Clearly meant no harm, but he is large and strong, and the character is small and comparatively breakable. Is that a reference? Makes me think of all the Bugs Bunny gags too. I really ought to read the original.
 
I loved reading Dracula, but then again I was after a slow burner so the pace did not feel slow to me. The concept of having various chapters being written like they were letters from one character to another, etc. was something that I also think added to the feeling and setting - and my enjoyment of the book.
 
Kallstrom said:
I loved reading Dracula, but then again I was after a slow burner so the pace did not feel slow to me. The concept of having various chapters being written like they were letters from one character to another, etc. was something that I also think added to the feeling and setting - and my enjoyment of the book.
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Maybe a decent reading on Audible would do the trick, I shall investigate.
Carmilla however I found to be fine in terms of pacing.
 
They did a few... can't say I think much of most of them but oh well.. It's not like the Character has often been done right (even in the cartoons). It's like how tons of versions of "frankenstein or the modern prometheus".. they always turn it into some film or series called 'Frankenstein' where he has to be green, and he has to be made from corpses and they just remove the whole POINT of the novel.. not that it was a fantastic novel in the first place.. you can see why she (with help) made it in the first place.

slightly unrelated, as much as I moan about bad adaptations, I love the novel which translates to roughly "Fatal Frame: A Curse Affecting Only Girls". My copy has alot of hand written corrections I had to put in a fan translation of it cause it was never released outside of japan. It's a bit.. loose connection to the series, and the film version, while good, is looser cause of having to drop what would have been about an hour more of content (so you kinda lose a couple of characters, some of the more in-depth backstory, like why a Shinto shrine is at a Catholic school). I need to really adjust my digital copy of the translation with my notes in case anyone wants it but.. there were a few and I don't know if people are that interested.. when it comes to video games, Thief and Fatal Frame (originally called 'Zero' in japan, Fatal Frame was the USA name which works really well and the Japanese took the name into the series with the second game, but in Europe it was given a mistaken name of 'Project Zero' due to a... bit of a commination fault ¬_¬ Personally, Zero is fine for the name but doesn't really mean too much and makes it harder to say about, where 'Fatal Frame' sums it up really well, so I have no problems with that at all)
 
Just ordered Wuthering Heights, it may be out of my reading comfort zone but at least I'm familiar with the story so shouldn't be that difficult to get through. Gonna read that after I finish Drachenfels.
 
I just read The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking over the World by Giuliano da Empoli, which is a short, lucid, and more than a little frightening nonfiction read. It's also very well written. It's excellent work, but man, is it depressing.

Right now I'm trying to muster the will to finish reading Hyperion by Dan Simmons. I've found a few of the stories interesting, but his style often feels pretentious and rubs me the wrong way. Overall it's not really my cup of tea.
 
Right the next reads are decided ... decided to go for something new (well old, but new, you know what I mean)

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Not ones I've read before, so we'll see what they are like.
 
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