Re: Vlad Tepes & Saberhagen

Message: 21
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 18:17:06 -0600
From: Anthony Bryant <ajbryant@...>
Subject: Re: Japan eras

Silk Road School wrote:

> ...You have my sympathy, for what it's worth. Fred

Saberhagen's _The

> Dracula Tape_ is a rather nicely researched satire that purports to be

Vlad

> Tepes' own account of his visit to England, refuting the unkind reports of
> Stoker and "that old sadist Van Helsing." If you can find the novel, it
> might give you some pleasure.

I love that book. I regard it as the *true* version of the Stoker account.
:)

Heh. You too, eh? Well, that's sure the effect it has when you've read it.
But it sounds better coming from you than if I'd said that. A delightful
book. (The somewhat endless sequels are fun as well, but none of them hold
a candle to the first.)

Interesting that you did a paper on him - as soon as I wrote that about the
quality of Saberhagen's research, I thought - "O Gods - there's some Tony
out there who's going to nail my ignorance here!" (I know more about the
Turks than I do about the Romanians, and while _Tape_ fit into that picture
pretty credibly, still, it was a stretch.)
...And people worry they can't find affirmation on this list.
Gereg

Silk Road School wrote:

>
> Heh. You too, eh? Well, that's sure the effect it has when you've read it.
> But it sounds better coming from you than if I'd said that. A delightful
> book. (The somewhat endless sequels are fun as well, but none of them hold
> a candle to the first.)

Agreed. I'm a particular fan of Sherlock Holmes, so I really enjoyed "The
Holmes-Dracula File" -- "An Old Friend of the Family" was good, too. "Thorn," I
thought, was not the strongest in the series...

> Interesting that you did a paper on him - as soon as I wrote that about the
> quality of Saberhagen's research, I thought - "O Gods - there's some Tony
> out there who's going to nail my ignorance here!" (I know more about the
> Turks than I do about the Romanians, and while _Tape_ fit into that picture
> pretty credibly, still, it was a stretch.)
> ...And people worry they can't find affirmation on this list.

LOL! Well, to me as a big lover of medieval history, and as an Eastern Orthodox
fellow, Vlad Tepes kinda has to be a standout. :)

Tony

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Dear Tony,

I think you should visit the following site: http://www.geocities.com/romaniancoins/history.html
I'll help.It's got nothing to do with Romanian Coins.It's the whole history of Romania.

Edy

Anthony Bryant <ajbryant@...> wrote:
Silk Road School wrote:

>
> Heh. You too, eh? Well, that's sure the effect it has when you've read it.
> But it sounds better coming from you than if I'd said that. A delightful
> book. (The somewhat endless sequels are fun as well, but none of them hold
> a candle to the first.)

Agreed. I'm a particular fan of Sherlock Holmes, so I really enjoyed "The
Holmes-Dracula File" -- "An Old Friend of the Family" was good, too. "Thorn," I
thought, was not the strongest in the series...

> Interesting that you did a paper on him - as soon as I wrote that about the
> quality of Saberhagen's research, I thought - "O Gods - there's some Tony
> out there who's going to nail my ignorance here!" (I know more about the
> Turks than I do about the Romanians, and while _Tape_ fit into that picture
> pretty credibly, still, it was a stretch.)
> ...And people worry they can't find affirmation on this list.

LOL! Well, to me as a big lover of medieval history, and as an Eastern Orthodox
fellow, Vlad Tepes kinda has to be a standout. :)

Tony

--

Anthony J. Bryant
Website: http://www.sengokudaimyo.com

Effingham's Heraldic Avatars (...and stuff):
http://www.sengokudaimyo.com/avatarbiz.html

Grand Cross, Order of the Laurel:
http://www.cafepress.com/laurelorder




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