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What are you currently reading?
Thrillho:
Exactly so! Being serialised he was dragging them out as much as possible.
Also these last two posts were meta as fuck, good job everybody.
Is it cold in here?:
"Non-violent Communication", by Marshall Rosenberg.
sitnspin:
Just started reading "The Gone-Away World" by Nick Harkaway. Bizarrely surreal post-apocalyptic comedy. Kinda has a Pratchett feel to is, but less goofy. It is very British, though.
JoeCovenant:
Just finished Stephen Fry's autoblobyblob "More Fool Me"
Am now back on a Luke Rheinhart tip, and am reading "Invasion" (and have "Long Voyage Back" waiting for when I've finished it)
LeeC:
Back in 1816 Mary Shelly, her husband, and some friends went to Geneva with Lord Byron. If my memory serves me the weather was terrible so they were mostly stuck inside. They started reading some German ghost stories and came up with an idea: a friendly scary story competition. Mary Shelley wrote what would later be published as Frankenstein and Lord Byron wrote The Vampyre (which would later inspire Bram Stoker to write Dracula) although his physician Paul Polidori rewrote and published it with Byron's assistance. I had 2 free credits on audible and downloaded both. The Vamypre was shorter and so I started with that and it was pretty good and I can see where Bram stoker took some of the mythology. I found out this weekend while visiting my parents that my dad started reading Dracula and after a few chapters he had to stop reading as he was getting nightmares (granted he was reading Dracula during his graveyard shift at the hotel he works with and is often the only one there). I thought it was rather coincidental that we read similar stories. However now that I have started Frankenstein, I have to say Mary Shelley is definitely the better of the two as far as prose and is more captivating. I am only 4 chapters in but is so far really good and better than The Vampyre.
The Vampyre was very fun though and being that my wife comes from that area of the world were the protagonist visits and learns about vampires, it added some dimension to it. I remember looking up vampire folklore a long time ago and found that in her culture only twins were qualified to hunt vampires. I could totally imagine her people's traditional clothes and superstitions as I read the story which made it seem all the more real. The ending was dark and reminded me of a horrific version of the old German folktale "Bearskin." I would not be surprised if Lord Byron read it and combined parts of it with his journeys and folktales told to him in the Balkans. I'd recommend it if you want a really short story for the month of October.
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