Pratchett's witches and vampires
Terry Pratchett's "Carpe jugulum" happened to be a vampire story! So I'm remaining in the vampire stream ;-)
The way he describes vampire gothic is just splendid!
'Oh, staying up until gone noon and wearing brightly coloured clothes, and giving yourselves funny names,' said the Countess.
'Like Gertrude,' sneered Vlad. 'And Pam. They think it's cool .'
Lacrimosa turned on him furiously, nails out. He caught her wrist, grinning.
'That's none of your business!'
'Lady Strigoiul said her daughter has taken to calling herself Wendy,' said the Countess. 'I can't imagine why she'd want to, when Hieroglyphica is such a nice name for a girl. And if I was her mother I'd see to it that she at least wore a bit of eyeliner-'
I would give anything to have this book in English though I kneel before my genius collegues who have made such a "bravo" translation into Russian!
The way he describes vampire gothic is just splendid!
'Oh, staying up until gone noon and wearing brightly coloured clothes, and giving yourselves funny names,' said the Countess.
'Like Gertrude,' sneered Vlad. 'And Pam. They think it's cool .'
Lacrimosa turned on him furiously, nails out. He caught her wrist, grinning.
'That's none of your business!'
'Lady Strigoiul said her daughter has taken to calling herself Wendy,' said the Countess. 'I can't imagine why she'd want to, when Hieroglyphica is such a nice name for a girl. And if I was her mother I'd see to it that she at least wore a bit of eyeliner-'
I would give anything to have this book in English though I kneel before my genius collegues who have made such a "bravo" translation into Russian!