Scott Graham
The story of an everyman who died and is condemmed to a short stay in hell. Short = not infinite. Hell is a library that contains, somewhere in its stacks, the perfect story of your life. It is housed there, along with every other book that could have possibly been printed with no regard to rhyme or reason. Any combination of the characters in the Roman alphabet, grammar and actual words not required. Your task is to find the book of your life, at which point you get sent to paradise.
You leave your time reading this book with a infinitesimal understanding of the time frames of infinity and forever, and it is frightening.
The story of an everyman who died and is condemmed to a short stay in hell. Short = not infinite. Hell is a library that contains, somewhere in its stacks, the perfect story of your life. It is housed there, along with every other book that could have possibly been printed with no regard to rhyme or reason. Any combination of the characters in the Roman alphabet, grammar and actual words not required. Your task is to find the book of your life, at which point you get sent to paradise.
You leave your time reading this book with a infinitesimal understanding of the time frames of infinity and forever, and it is frightening.
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The classic tale of vampires and staunch heroes lives up to its reputation as the progenitor of modern vampire lore, with sunrise and sunset, garlic, stabbing through the heart and beheading, and permission to enter a home required, all figuring into the story prominently. The story is generally easy to follow despite its Victorian prose, save for the pieces authored by Van Helsing. Stoker made his Netherlander understanding of the English language variably stilted, so a careful and close reading was warranted in those passages. Oddly, Dracula does not appear in the action too often once he has left Castle Dracula; he is felt mostly through his effects on the other characters, most notably Renfield, Lucy, and Mina, hardly a fitting role for Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, or Gary Oldman. Except for the final chase, the story is more drawing room drama than horror story, and even that is mostly told from the point of view from the intercepting party rather than the pursuing parties. Overall I am very glad to have read it and be able to judge the adaptations against the source material and appreciate them all the more for the literary license taken by each. The tone most closely matches the Lugosi movie, but the story is very faithfully reproduced by Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation.
The classic tale of vampires and staunch heroes lives up to its reputation as the progenitor of modern vampire lore, with sunrise and sunset, garlic, stabbing through the heart and beheading, and permission to enter a home required, all figuring into the story prominently. The story is generally easy to follow despite its Victorian prose, save for the pieces authored by Van Helsing. Stoker made his Netherlander understanding of the English language variably stilted, so a careful and close reading was warranted in those passages. Oddly, Dracula does not appear in the action too often once he has left Castle Dracula; he is felt mostly through his effects on the other characters, most notably Renfield, Lucy, and Mina, hardly a fitting role for Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, or Gary Oldman. Except for the final chase, the story is more drawing room drama than horror story, and even that is mostly told from the point of view from the intercepting party rather than the pursuing parties. Overall I am very glad to have read it and be able to judge the adaptations against the source material and appreciate them all the more for the literary license taken by each. The tone most closely matches the Lugosi movie, but the story is very faithfully reproduced by Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation.
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Read 52 books in 2025
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17 issue comic series read in a graphic novel compendium format mixes a sci-fi world with a historic medieval earth sensibility to relate the tale of a family that has sequestered from the larger society to remain pure from the rot that infests it. The title of the series starts as a loose confederation of creatures to bring an end to society’s ills by separating the king from his thrall and restoring justice to the world and the good name of the protagonist and his family, but turns out to be a double entendre that we don’t learn until the close of the story, when all is lost and corrupted. Our hero is the villain, the villain sought an end, and all the other characters were playing the angles for a piece of their own small part of the world. A very nihilistic story told during nihilistic times. Great art and a very entertaining dark tale.
17 issue comic series read in a graphic novel compendium format mixes a sci-fi world with a historic medieval earth sensibility to relate the tale of a family that has sequestered from the larger society to remain pure from the rot that infests it. The title of the series starts as a loose confederation of creatures to bring an end to society’s ills by separating the king from his thrall and restoring justice to the world and the good name of the protagonist and his family, but turns out to be a double entendre that we don’t learn until the close of the story, when all is lost and corrupted. Our hero is the villain, the villain sought an end, and all the other characters were playing the angles for a piece of their own small part of the world. A very nihilistic story told during nihilistic times. Great art and a very entertaining dark tale.