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Cargando... Varney the Vampyre or The Feast of Bloodpor James Malcolm Rymer
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is called a Penny Dreadful for a reason! It goes on and on, with the author (it seems so disjointed that it seems to be written by several different people) padding the story with totally irrelevant side stories. One is never really sure if Varney is a vampire or not. Yes, he is hard to kill! Bullets don't stop him. Moonlight resurrects him. He doesn't drown. But he doesn't drink any blood during the entire book, despite an attack on virginal Flora, which he later denies. The story ends up in a strange direction, stopping quite suddenly. There is a large portion of the story devoted to finding lost money--it seems vampires need a lot of money. If your concept of vampires begins and ends with "Twilight," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," and Sookie Stackhouse crap, you will not enjoy this book. However, if you enjoy Victorian literature and have the intelligence to appreciate the wit in this Penny Dreadful, you will have a rollicking good read. Yes, the plot can be convoluted (and long winded) at times, but that comes with the territory of the mid-19th century English serialized novel -- Dickens, anyone? sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML: The modern-day vampire story has its roots in an unlikely source: cheap paper pamphlets that were sold on street corners in Victorian England. Called "penny dreadfuls," these pamphlets strung out sensationalized tales over dozensâ??and sometimes even hundredsâ??of episodes. Varney the Vampire is a classic of the genre, and many of the elements of classic vampire lore originated in this sprawling, deliciously pulpy tale No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I'm not sure how many writers there were but i'm sure there was more than one. The writing style becomes much less descriptive and over the top around chapter 30 or so much to its detriment.
The story becomes increasingly inconsistent with at least 3 different origin stories for Varney, however it is possible to link everything together with a bit of work and if you assume that the origin stories done after he
The mob scene is probably the highlight of the entire run. The middle chapters are probably the weakest with numerous very similar incidents taking place. It gets slightly better towards the end.
I wouldn't bother paying for it to be honest, get a public domain version online, read until after the mob situation or