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Well, I sort of agree with your sentiments, but I regard the mature section more as a sandpit where the inmates can throw thier political/theological poo at each other without inflicting the smell on everyone. Anyway,Sparky sez no, so I'll drop it.

If you mean on what grounds - It seems to of moved to a discussion of the subject of the book, not the book. Given the subject, it seems to fall into the mature section which is the place to discuss 'politics & religion'.

Mods - any chance of getting this thread moved to the mature section?

Ah, one of my all time favourite films.

Northanger Abbey might be a better setup. Henry's mother is a zombie queen, stalking the halls of the Abbey. Henry and his sister are kidnapping naive young ladies from Bath to feed to a zombie horde. Of course, the general is a hero not the villian, he discovers the nefarious plans of his...

Well, apart from the last sentence.;) Except, Scrooge assumes that the spirit of Christmas Present is a Christian spirit. Given the same evidence of the appearance of the spirit, what you see as Pagan, Scrooge accuses of being Christian (see below) – so the image must be sufficiently close...

I don't understand - a film with Natalie Portman in it and you went to see Scarlett Johansson?

I quite enjoy listening to Lydsey (sp?) Davis’ Falco stories as Audio books – but they are too dire to read, which suggests they are better on plot and character than style. But for me, special mention goes to John Zakour (e.g. The Frost-Haired Vixen). What I have read of his has absolutely...

I just received "Jack Maggs" by Carey - I think someone on here recommended it. I read a few of these a couple of years back and then went to see a production of the Thebes' plays back-to-back. At the end of one of them, they were buring incense and as a result I passed out just as Oedipus...

Hi, I’d question your thesis is three ways: Firstly, your initial assumption that stories are just newer stories atop older ones. What evidence is there for this? I suppose that if there is no elided ‘all’ in your assumption then it would be reasonable to say that some stories are newer...

Merry Chistmas everyone.

Stictly, Dracula describes his past not Stoker. If you want to take him as a reliable witness, he doesn't claim to be Vlad, and I remember thinking when I read the passage about Dracula describing 'the good old days', he could equally have been a household retainer – I suppose it depends on how...

Interesting, but a few counter points. I am not sure that science needs to be overcome. There are the traditional religious artefacts that you observe are used to confound Dracula, but equivalent is the use of a telegram, steamship, and a telephone to steal a march on him. The use of...

Not strictly the way round you asked for, but wasn't the film based upon Ludvik Kennedy's book of the same name?

Hmmm, contrarywise - isn't this a case where the banker's views were confirmed in the end. The lawyer withered away physically and emotionally as a result of his imprisonment. The lawyer rejects both the comfort that the 2 Million could buy, but also rejects other more esoteric values. If not in...

Which similiarities? Stylistic, plot or character?

The BBC. They have something of a monomania at the moment. Finally, lost my rag when they started playing a soundbite from Serena Williams about Obama during the sports roundup. Very annoying, I missed "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel" this morning after I broke my radio.

The Beeb's obsession with the US presidency. Don't care how far he jogs. Really don't care what his Kenyan Aunt thinks about anything. Really, really don't care what the Williams sisters say about him. At the point they started this interview, the radio briefly demonstrated it's...

Midsummer Night's Dream I saw a ballet production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" over the weekend (by the Northern Ballet Company) and it was excellent, although somewhat strangely they had speech in it. A bit of talking in the first act to set up a couple of laughs, and then at the end they...

With a bit of poetic licence, the good doctor said they were on a Electric-7 tariff (a UK off-peak tariff - possibly now defunct). It was I thought an amusing image that the system failed because someone was wandering the corridors turning off switches to save on electricity - is it just in...