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Otherwise whack it in Ebay.
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Hmmm, well back to the book. I haven't finished it yet but am making my way through it (its not one I'd 'Mainline' through in an afternoon) slowly and its not overly bad in anyway. I wasn't the biggest of fans of him as president of the USA and he definitely made some mistakes, in fact he admits to making them in the book (I'm not saying 'his' book as I think its ghost written most likely). It doesnt change my overall opinion of his presidency but its nice to hear about some of this stuff from his point of view. I also suspect that he isn't the total fool people make him out to be, I'm not saying he's mensa material, but he's not as naive as some would have you believe and has learnt to play the 'non-genius' card.
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If you want something different and more serialized then perhaps you could try out a comic. DC Comics is releasing a monthly vampire title in September as part of its relaunch, and this looks like its going to follow in the footsteps of the modern vampire mythos rather than the older capes and castles comic approach. The book will be called I, Vampire.
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Hello Book Readers,
My name is Nick and I'm a PhD student. Read lots of non-fiction and have more recently in life started getting through more than a few fiction books. Hope you're all enjoying the sunshine if you're lucky enough to be getting some
Thanks
Nick
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I enjoyed Dracula and have since reading it been lucky enough to do a lecture on political geography of modernity structured around elements of it. Its a clever novel for the time and I particularly enjoy the 'slapped together' feel of the book in that its a collection of peoples diaries and journal entries rather than a singular narrative.
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Am loving this book thus far, it's currently my on the train dabbler for when I've finished the paper so is mainly being read in small chunks. Its fast and frantic pace is awesome as is the wild unpredictability of characters.
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I studied Great Expectations for my A Level english and did enjoy it (mostly the earlier bit we Pip was a boy) we were told be our teacher that we should read each of the books we were doing 6 times so we would know them inside and out. I managed to read this one and a half times (thats half a time more than I managed for James Joyce's Dubliners
)I am currently ploughing my way through Our Mutual Friend I am reading a chapter here and there which I am telling myself is in spirit of the original publications. The trouble is I just can't seem to work out what is going on. I know the basics but I can't keep up with it all I think for me its a bad combination of just too many characters and ye olde language. Also I can't decide if Dickens was being paid by the word and thats why he uses just so many of them or if its a case of I am completely misunderstanding his tone and that it is actually witty and clever, far too clever for me. I am to seek out one of those study guides for when I have finished reading it to see if I can make sense of it that way but feel I would have been better off reading the two together, literally one in each hand.
Saying that I will make it to the end and do plan on reading another. I fancy given Bleak House a go as I loved the mini series of that on TV (even though I didn't fully understand all the legaliest involved with the Court of Chancery, Jarndyce and Jarndyce).
I think a lot of his work was originally serialized and then later combined into books. I have the same problem with some of his verboseness and occasionally repeating himself in a manner akin to US tv programs wherein we are instantly reminded of what happened after it just happened. This annoyed me when I did Oliver Twist at school. Don't regret having read it, but Dickens not for me.
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I have recently bought a copy of V for Vendetta by Alan Moore as I really enjoyed the film and was told the novel was better. I have read Watchmen by Moore and the story telling was amazing as was the artwork that accompanied it. If V for Vendetta is as good as people say it is I will get From Hell next as I loved the film (although that may be because Johnny Depp stared in it).
My older sister has a copy of Maus somewhere so I may have to have a rummage around for that sometime and give it a read. Although knowing her it's probably shoved under her bed and I will have to rescue it.
A word of warning, 'From Hell' is nothing like the film. Its a much more serious affair with regards Jack the Ripper and the various theories and conspiracies surrounding the affair, and I'd argue a much more adult book overall.
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Its a good little book, although I feel that Yes Man was probably the best of his set thus far. I'd recommend "Are you Dave Gorman?" as a good first point on Dannys writing as its written by Dave and Danny from their different perspectives. I also think they work best in order: Dave Gorman, Join Me, Yes Man, Friends like these. I say this only as when read in order you get recurring themes that Danny draws out along the books and some of the chracters that he meets along the way pop up again like old friends of the reader.
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The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
Occasionally academically frustrating with some historical inaccuracies but otherwise a good read.
Dracula by Bram Stoker
in The Classics
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Its not what you'd expect if you've seen a film about it. Well unless the film is Bram Stokers Dracula, in which case it at least hints of the separate diaries as being that which drives the plot forwards. Its not a typical novel in terms of structure and each section has a differing level of formality to it, reflecting those writing that portion of the story. I think compared to more recent vampire titles it lacks the action and continual sense of overwhelming peril.