Gah!

[brixtonbrood]

a) Steven Moffatt, whose work I admire, is quoted in the Guardian as saying "Being perfectly honest, have you tried reading Dracula or Frankenstein? You'd be found dead of boredom. Fiction for a dustier age - stories that never had to compete with The X-Factor."He is now relegated to the annoyingly large section of "People Who Think That Dracula

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[the_magician]

ENO is advertising its new production of Satyagraha as being "by Philip Glass: Oscar (TM) Nominated for Notes From a Scandal". Words fail me.

Quite. They should have mentioned it as being by the composer of the music for Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992) and its sequel, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh :-)

(Notes from a Scandal is his third nomination, his first was for Kundan about the Dalai Lama, and his second was for The Hours

[the_magician]

Oh, and of course Mr.Glass has written a new score for the 1931 Dracula (tying your two points together!) which I saw performed by the Kronos Quartet at the Royal Festival Hall a few years ago, fantastic!

And La Belle et la Bête (again I think I saw that at the RFH with the Welsh National Opera (or was it the Welsh National Ballet ... can't recall!)

(I also saw 1000 Airplanes on the Roof twice at Sadlers Wells :-) )

[white_hart]

I really enjoyed Frankenstein. I enjoyed Dracula, too, but that's about the only thing the two novels have in common.

[fjm]

I read both books for the first time two years ago. I suspect tht this chap hsn't yet read them at all. I was enthralled by Frankenstein, and while Dracula is slow in parts some of it is real thriller stuff. I give my students the last chapter (for Horror) and they love the pace.

[undyingking]

In the same box, people who think that the writings of the Brontes and Jane Austen are much the same.