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From: ojevind.lang@bredband.net
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> On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 11:56:25 -0700 (PDT), derek
> wrote:
>
>>On Aug 1, 10:39 am, Öjevind Lång wrote:
>>
>>> have been an inspiration to the woman who wrote the Twilight books.
>>> (Stephenie Meyer - even her name is illiterate.)
>>
>>Looks multi-literate to me. "Stephenie" is French (or maybe
>>Quebecois). I don't plan to read the novels to find out if she's
>>remotely literate otherwise.
French it isn't. The French version is Stéphanie. Morgan herself seems to be
a Mormon born in Connecticut to Anglo parents, for what it's worth.
> For all it's faults, I think "Dracula" is still probably the only vampire
> book
> worth reading, through I don't have a wide experience, since the only
> others I
> have read are Stephen King's "'Salem's lot" (which was predictable and
> derivative), and Ann Rice's "Interview with the vampire", which bored me
> out
> of my skull, but I forced myself to read just so that I could say that I
> had
> read one of her books.
I agree. "Dracula" is still genuinely frightening in places, especially the
moment when the madman invites the vampire into the asylum. I did enjoy the
TV series "Buffy and the Vampires" up to and including the episode where
Buffy and her friends had survived high school. The series should have
stopped there, because afterwards it went downhill rather swiftly. Seth
Green must have felt the same way, since he left the series pretty soon
afterwards.
I agree that one can do what one wishes with creatures of the imagination,
as long as what one does is good. "Twilight", from what little I know about
it, doesn't really fulfill the criteria.
Öjevind
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