Dracula..on LiveJournal
Posted: 25 Aug 2006, 15:21
A friend has just pointed me in the direction of this LiveJournal Community: Dracula1897
Basically, starting a few months ago they are publishing the Dracula novel in 'real time'. The actual book was essentially made up of various letters and diary entries and so this site is reproducing them on the relevent day.
In the book the entries are not stricly in date/time order - presumably to aid the storytelling process - and so re-reading everything in chronological order adds a different twist to a book that I have read a few times before.
Various discussions about the content seem to occur in the comments section and during quiet times the moderator suggests some topics for discussion, until the next entry comes along.
A very good idea for an LJ community - am now going to spend some time this weekend catching up on the 'story so far'.
Basically, starting a few months ago they are publishing the Dracula novel in 'real time'. The actual book was essentially made up of various letters and diary entries and so this site is reproducing them on the relevent day.
In the book the entries are not stricly in date/time order - presumably to aid the storytelling process - and so re-reading everything in chronological order adds a different twist to a book that I have read a few times before.
Various discussions about the content seem to occur in the comments section and during quiet times the moderator suggests some topics for discussion, until the next entry comes along.
A very good idea for an LJ community - am now going to spend some time this weekend catching up on the 'story so far'.