Comments on: Dracula, Blogged

Dracula, Blogged

LeeJay — Thu, 26 May 2005 00:04:33 -0800

Dracula Blogged: Bram Stoker's vampire novel, published by its own calendar. According to the site description:

Individual pieces of the novel will appear on the calendar dates indicated in the text, starting with Jonathan Harker's May 3rd Bistriz journal entry, and finishing up with November 6 and the final Note.

Be sure to check the comments, which are full of interesting tidbits about the novel, Stoker, Transylvania and historical accuracy (or innacuracy, as the case may be).

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Thu, 26 May 2005 00:23:05 -0800

Cool. This book was great - but a few too many weeping men. Other than that it was fantastic and this is a cool idea.

By: peacay

peacay — Thu, 26 May 2005 03:15:32 -0800

And just by the by........Nosferatu is available for (legal) download here.

By: By The Grace of God

By The Grace of God — Thu, 26 May 2005 05:34:37 -0800

Darth blog knockoff.

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Thu, 26 May 2005 05:56:10 -0800

Darth blog knockoff. How so? I'm having a hard time seeing what one has to do with the other.

By: krysalist

krysalist — Thu, 26 May 2005 06:05:39 -0800

Oooh, gratzi for the Nosferatu link peacay.

By: pracowity

pracowity — Thu, 26 May 2005 06:16:41 -0800

This book was great - but a few too many weeping men. I think men wept in those days. (Especially when confronted with the bloodsucking undead.)

By: Robot Johnny

Robot Johnny — Thu, 26 May 2005 06:27:26 -0800

Darth blog knockoff. How so? I'm having a hard time seeing what one has to do with the other. They both have black capes, silly.

By: PinkStainlessTail

PinkStainlessTail — Thu, 26 May 2005 06:32:08 -0800

Darth blog knockoff. How so? I'm having a hard time seeing what one has to do with the other. I think By the Grace of God is assuming some blogger is making this all up like the author of Darth blog is, because he didn't realize that Stoker's novel Dracula is written as a series of journal entries, letters, telegrams, etc. and what's happening here is parts of Stoker's text are being posted. Maybe he should've said Pepys' Diary Blog knockoff? But still, not really.

By: graymouser

graymouser — Thu, 26 May 2005 06:34:20 -0800

As a point of etiquette, when people post referring to an interesting blog like this, they should include a link to the first entry. It's just easier that way.

By: By The Grace of God

By The Grace of God — Thu, 26 May 2005 07:37:29 -0800

My bad. Pre-coffee didn't realize there was a difference. The Darth blog is great, by the way.

By: Capn

Capn — Thu, 26 May 2005 07:41:45 -0800

May 27th Current Mood: Drained.

By: Zurishaddai

Zurishaddai — Thu, 26 May 2005 08:49:27 -0800

Yeah, I thought of the Pepys diary, which has attracted some excellent comments. Then there's an ongoing Martial translation (intro mentions comments, I swear it used to have comments, but where are the comments?).

By: es_de_bah

es_de_bah — Thu, 26 May 2005 12:45:57 -0800

this is really good. i took a digital media class a couple of years ago and was really excited about the possibilities the internet offered literature, then horrified by the shit people had come up with. bad hypertext fiction and whatnot that didn't really use technology to make the content more interesting, dynamic or readable. this is a step in the right direction. most of the good applications of digital media for literature have been reformatting of old text, but i guess we're still in the early learning process. this will be great summer reading!

By: LeeJay

LeeJay — Thu, 26 May 2005 13:25:15 -0800

As a point of etiquette, when people post referring to an interesting blog like this, they should include a link to the first entry. It's just easier that way. You're right about that. I apologize for not including it.