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- From: cvanous@mdd.comm.mot.com (Cindy Vanous)
- Subject: Re: A question regarding Dracula, and vampires
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.020130.26737@mdd.comm.mot.com>
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- Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA
- References: <1992Nov20.170709.61107@cc.usu.edu> <By2Cvr.9n6@access.digex.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 02:01:30 GMT
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- In article <By2Cvr.9n6@access.digex.com> tsm@access.digex.com (The Secret Man) writes:
- >> [quote about vampires going abroad in daylight deleted]
- >>What gives? Did I miss something, or am I just totally clueless?
- >
- >The latter. How did you arrive at this moment in life? Never having read
- >DRACULA...
- >
- >You have also not read any of Fred Saberhagen's Dracula novels (some are
- >admittedly better than others); Saberhagen remained relatively true to
- >Stoker's statements about the *powers* of vampires, while playing fast and
- >loose with the view of the central character, as well as the basic definition
- >of vampirism.
-
- Saberhagen vampires! Love `em!
- And in a truly, cosmically, incredibly cool (O.K. ... cool to me) twist:
- Guess who did the novelization of FFC's Drac?
-
- YEP! Fred hisself. And I must say that he does put his own slant on
- things (plus a few little in-jokes for those of us who've read his
- Dracula series ... :^).
-
- But JEEZ, pal ... if you've managed to go this far through life
- without reading the original Stoker book, you need to take a few hours
- out and remedy the situation. Trust me, they'll be hours well spent.
-
- - The Cypherkat
-