Amanda G’s last login was Monday, March 23 2009.
My pleasure! I'm a total sci-fi geek - mostly post-apocalyptic stuff and short stories.I'm just glad to put my geekiness to good use.
Check out this I found on the novel: "Maurice Richardson famously called the text: '...a kind of incestuous, necrophilious, oral-anal-sadistic all-in wrestling match'. Others have more recently related it to civilisation and its discontents, the return of the repressed, sex from the neck up, homo-eroticism, bisexuality and gender bending; reverse colonialism (the East getting its own back on the West) and a cosmic racial conflict between modern Anglo-Saxon stock and the 1,400-year-old bloodline of Attila the Hun; hysteria, the empowerment of women, the disempowerment of women; the sense of displacement of a middle-class Protestant Dubliner, complete with retreat into the occult, crumbling aristocracy and sense of being strangled by red tape. And so on. Dracula contains legions."Its a totally wild novel and can be read in many many ways - I loved it after having only read it in high school like 25 years ago lol
Hey Amanda! This is really cool - I re-read Dracula a few years ago and was really surprised at many of the other themes besides the obvious - especially, the power of East Europeans lol
