Dracula is great

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:17, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

It is
I've got a rather nice hardback edition. I don't like paperbacks, I'm a terrible snob in that regard.
( Kroney, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:21, Reply)

I can't abide hardbacks

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:22, Reply)

It is my fondest hope
that one day I shall have a room, the walls coated in shelves with a large wingback and nary a paperback in sight.
( Kroney, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:28, Reply)

brilliant for fucking up spiders though
BLAM
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:36, Reply)

*high fives*

I feel dirty.
(wellgroomedwookiee is a filthy-minded hobgoblin, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:40, Reply)

It's ok to high five me I'm not an aids victim

( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:45, Reply)

I love pretty much all the Victorian horror I've read.
If you look at it in context books like Dr Jekyll tell us shitloads about the Victorian mindset - as do the Holmes stories.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:22, Reply)

I've been meaning to pick up a copy of Dr Jekyll
you can some incredibly cheap low quality penguin editions of some classics these days, I think that is one of them.

I got a copy of Dorian Grey a couple of weeks back.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:23, Reply)

I love that book so, so much.
Wilde was a complete wizard of the word.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:29, Reply)

same here
it's utterly superb. Did you see the film?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:32, Reply)

He was certainly an 'inspiration' to me...

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:41, Reply)

When reading Jekyll
keep in mind the Victorian obsession with science and how it replaced religion as the new absolute - and also about how they feared 'animal' emotions: how the ideal Victorian was someone who could suppress their 'base' instincts to be the genteel, controlled self-master...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:32, Reply)

You can see this in Frankenstein as well
the Monster was a personification of this fear of losing their control and what might happen if they did.
( Kroney, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:35, Reply)

I like Victorian fiction of all kinds
I like the adventures and the utopias too. H Rider Haggard is a good one.
( Kroney, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:27, Reply)

King Soloman's Mine is brilliant
need to see if I still have that
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:28, Reply)

'She' is another beauty.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:29, Reply)

She
is my favourite, I think.

edit for mindpissage.
( Kroney, Tue 14 Sep 2010, 11:29, Reply)