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October belongs to Dracula right here
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so most of you know I host a book club the
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seriously well -read book club it is part of my patreon
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and you will find a link to
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that in the description below it's $20 a month
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but we pick a classic each month we read it we discuss it in detail on Voxer.
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I make private videos that are only available to the Seriously Well Read book club members.
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And since October is not only just Halloween, but also Victober, and Dracula is a Victorian novel,
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what better time to read Dracula, okay?
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And, okay, Dracula, Guinness Book of World Records says that Dracula has been portrayed on screen over 538 times.
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That was 10 years ago.
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So who knows how many times Dracula has been portrayed on screen since then.
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So everybody thinks they know the story, but most people haven't read the original novel.
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If you're one of those, if you haven't read the original novel Dracula, or if you have read it and you want to read it again.
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October is the perfect time to get in on this.
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I'm telling you, it's going to be a blast, okay?
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I'm Randy Ray.
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This is The Literate Texan.
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It's my channel on YouTube where I talk about books and reading, highbrow, lowbrow, everything in between.
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I'm not sure what you would consider Dracula.
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It's old enough that you might think it's highbrow, but it's gothic horror enough that you might think it's lowbrow.
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I don't know whether it's highbrow or lowbrow.
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I just know it's the good stuff and you'll enjoy it.
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And don't think that because it was published in 1897, it's going to be hard to read.
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It is not hard to read.
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You will not have any trouble with the language in it at all.
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We're not reading Shakespeare or Beowulf here or Chaucer.
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It's written in almost contemporary English.
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And so they're, they're just a handful of, of phrasing differences, but yeah, you won't have any trouble at all with Dracula in terms of reading the language.
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Okay.
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So let's talk about the book for just a second, Dracula.
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Most editions are about 400 pages long, but it varies.
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This is my copy.
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This is the Norton critical edition.
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So it's got all kinds of extra stuff in it, but you can usually find a copy of Dracula in like a Signet classic or something like that for next to nothing.
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And actually you can go to standardebooks .com and you can get an ebook version of Dracula completely free.
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I mean it's in the public domain.
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It was originally published in 1897.
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It was written by Bram Stoker.
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Bram Stoker is considered one of the great original gothic horror writers.
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In fact the Horror Writers Association of America.
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Their annual award for fiction is called the Brom Stoker Award, okay?
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Now, I haven't read his other works, but I understand none of them come even close to being as good as Dracula.
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I don't know.
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I've heard different things.
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You know, he also wrote The Jewel of Seven Stars.
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I can't remember the names of them.
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He wrote seven or eight novels, I think, and some short stories.
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One of the short stories that he wrote was called Dracula's Guest.
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And is it Dracula's Guest?
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It might be Dracula's Guest.
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It might be Dracula's daughter.
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I'm not sure which, but I think I'm going to do a read aloud of that one.
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And I'll probably do that for free right here on the YouTube channel, so you won't have to miss out on that.
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But it's a great book.
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The pacing is terrific.
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The characterization is interesting.
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It's an epistolary novel, okay?
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If you don't know what that means, and I didn't until someone explained it to me.
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An epistolary novel is a novel that's told using clips from newspaper clippings,
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diary entries, letters, and that sort of thing.
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Now, you might think that's weird, and you might have trouble understanding that, but you know, you'll be surprised.
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If you've read Carrie by Stephen King, that's also an epistolary novel.
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Epistolary novels are pretty common, actually.
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You don't necessarily know that's what you're reading unless you know about that sort of thing.
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But yeah, Dracula is one of the best examples of an epistolary novel that's out there.
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And it is legitimately scary.
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And there's some fascinating themes going on at work.
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It basically, it asks the question,
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what happens in civilization when ancient evil encroaches upon modern civilization?
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I'm not going to get into too much more detail
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because I don't want to spoil any of the plot for you
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and I'm going to recommend to you if you're not familiar with the novel don't spoil it for yourself.
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Let it do its work on the page because and just forget what you've seen in the movies if you can.
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Don't think about the TV shows.
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Let the novel do its work, because believe me, it's worth it.
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Okay, so why are we reading Dracula today?
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Why now?
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What makes this worth reading now?
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Well, you know, as I already explained, it is Victober, so this does give you an opportunity to read something that was written in Victorian England, okay?
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And this is one of the great Gothic novels.
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If you like Stephen King, if you like Clive Barker, if you like Grady Hendrix, if you like any number of modern horror authors,
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a lot of them are drawing on that tradition, especially if you're reading vampire novels, okay?
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Modern vampire novels like They Thirst by Robert McCammon, which is a favorite of mine, Salem's Lot by Stephen King,
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Live Girls by Ray Garton, you know, a lot of these modern novels draw upon Dracula for their version of vampires.
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They all play with the tropes,
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but basically, modern pop culture and modern pop culture's depictions of vampires are all talking back to Dracula, okay?
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Now, Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, okay?
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He didn't invent the vampire story.
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In fact, he was heavily influenced by some other works.
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There's a book called Camilla by Jay Sheridan and Life I Knew, which I think is great extra credit reading.
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And one of the things that I'll do for my book club members is offer extra credit reading, and there'll be plenty of it.
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But, you know, there was Varney the Vampire, which was a penny dreadful that seemed to go on forever.
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It was influential on Dracula, too.
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Dracula, far better book. So, yeah, Dracula, you think you know the story too
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that that's why it's
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so much fun to read in my opinion you think you know the story
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but actually you don't it's full of surprises okay
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and it's fun to think okay how much of our pop culture understanding of vampires
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and Dracula actually come from the original novel
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and where did these pop culture versions of Dracula differ okay
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and you know there was a movie in 1931 starring Bela Lugosi called Dracula, directed by Todd Browning.
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There was a silent film called Nosferatu, which was based on Dracula.
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There was The Horror of Dracula, which was the first of the Hammer series of Dracula movies,
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which starred, you know, Peter Cushion and Christopher Lee, and countless others.
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Those are just some of the most famous versions of Dracula.
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Jack Palance has played Dracula.
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Frank Langella.
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Gary Oldman has played Dracula.
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And it doesn't matter which versions you've seen, you will find stuff in the novel that's going to surprise you, it's going to scare you,
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and it's going to delight you.
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Now, all of my book clubs are read -at -your -own -pace book clubs.
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You don't have to read according to any particular schedule
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but I always provide guidance and I like to do this so that the people participating know
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where they should be to finish in the course of the month
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but also you don't want to spoil things for people who aren't reading as fast as you are
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so if you know where we're at in the discussion
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because we'll have lengthy discussions every Friday but
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if you know where we're at in the book you'll be able to avoid spoiling it for other people
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and I do ask that out of courtesy of the other members of the book club
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that you do that I'm going to put the reading schedule in the description below okay
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but also I'll have the reading schedule posted on patreon .com okay
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and there will be a voxer discussion group voxer for those
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of you who don't know it's just a voicemail instant messaging service
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but it's particularly well suited for discussions of books you just leave a voicemail
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and everybody in the group gets the voicemail or you send a text
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and everybody in the group gets the text I've tried other
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options for hosting discussions voxer works best for me since I'm
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hosting the book club that's the one we're gonna use I know some people prefer discord
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and that's okay they can host a discussion over on Discord if they want to.
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I won't be joining in.
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Discord, it just doesn't work for me.
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I don't know if I'm an old fogey or what.
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But here's the calendar, okay?
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So first of all, i think october 1st
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or october 2nd i think the first friday in october is october 2nd okay
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so we're not going to have a discussion on october 2nd that'll be
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when you start reading it we'll have our first discussion
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and the first video on october the 9th
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and to be caught up to be where we need to be you should have finished with chapter eight
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and i'm not using page numbers because the different editions have different page numbers okay
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and I'm also basing the stomping points around the story arcs okay
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so they're not exactly even
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but they're close okay I think you know one week we're
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reading 100 130 pages one week we're reading 117 pages I think there's another week we're reading 87
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or 90 pages something like that but I mean it's close
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but I'm more concerned with the story beats being natural ending
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points than I am with an arbitrary page number goal each week.
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So October 16th, you should be finished with chapter 16.
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Not starting chapter 16, but finished with chapter 16.
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And then October the 23rd, the third week, you should be finished with chapter 22, it's only six chapters.
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And then on October the 30th, that'll be our grand finale.
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That'll be our final discussion.
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You should be finished with the book by October the 30th.
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That's the reading schedule.
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Like I said, it's going to be posted in the description below.
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It will be posted over on our Patreon site too.
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And also my plan is every Friday on the Patreon site, I'm going to put up a fairly lengthy video discussing Dracula.
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Now, I have had some health problems in the past
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that have prevented me or slowed me down in terms of putting together these videos, but I get so enthusiastic and excited about Dracula
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that it's like there's a whole ain't no stopping me now kind of thing going on here.
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So that's one of the big selling points of the Patreon .com membership are the videos.
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And I want to thank the people who are in my
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Patreon group for being patient with me in the months
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that I haven't been able to fulfill that and get all the videos live that I necessarily were promised.
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Okay, I want to reiterate this again.
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Why are the divisions where I put them?
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Chapter 8, Chapter 16, Chapter 22 two.
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It's not based on number of pages.
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Okay.
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They're roughly equivalent, but they're pretty various.
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It's because they're based on story beats.
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Okay.
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I want, I don't want to end in the middle of one of the mini story arcs
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or one of the plot arcs.
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Okay.
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And like any book, you know, this has multiple story arcs.
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Trust me on this.
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Okay.
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The schedule is the way it is for a reason.
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It's a good schedule.
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And this is not my first time to host a discussion of Dracula or to host a reading of Dracula.
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And trust me, it's just a good schedule.
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Okay, now if this is your first time reading Dracula,
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don't worry if Dracula, the character or the story,
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seems to be different from what you're expecting, okay?
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The first story arc in Dracula, and I'm not spoiling much here,
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concerns Jonathan Harker in Castle Dracula, okay?
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It is different from what you've seen in the movies, okay?
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In a lot of ways, it's more effective and scarier, but it is different don't let
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that throw you off okay
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and then the story arcs you know various movies are faithful to the book in various ways
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but even francis ford coppola who made dracula with gary oldman
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and anthony hopkins great cast by the way even he is not completely faithful to the novel
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so don't worry about that don't worry about the language being too difficult you won't have a problem with it.
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Don't worry about archaic references.
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There's not a lot of that to worry about.
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You don't need a bunch of footnotes.
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This was written in modern day English.
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For example, if you've read the Sherlock Holmes novels, you'll have no trouble with this.
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If you've read Pride and Prejudice, if you've read Charles Dickens,
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you will have no trouble at all understanding Bram Stoker's language in Dracula.
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And I am going to suggest avoiding adaptations of this while we're reading it.
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Once we get towards the end of it, I'll have some adaptations to suggest and some things to look for in those adaptations.
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And I am going to have...
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what i call extra credit assignments or additional things to read
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that are completely 100 % optional yesterday i made a video about literary double features books
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that are good to read back to back
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and one of the ones i suggested was reading dracula back
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to back with salem's lot salem's lot is a stephen king novel from 1978
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and it's marvelous it's absolutely terrific but it stemmed from the idea of what
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if Dracula came to America to a sleepy town in Maine instead of going to London, England.
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That was the springboard for that one.
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But I'm also going to suggest that Dracula was partially the inspiration for the Lord of the Rings.
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A lot of the story beats are the same.
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Gandalf you can see as being a type of Van Helsing character.
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Frodo you can see as being kind of a Jonathan Harker character.
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Sauron, the Dark Lord, is kind of a Dracula character.
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Even Gollum is like Renfield, okay?
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You can draw these parallels, but of course it's different.
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He's working in a secondary world instead of a modern American, or what was then modern day England and Transylvania.
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But, uh, but yeah, so that's another one where it can make for a really entertaining back -to -back read.
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But there are other things too, like Camilla, I've already mentioned by Sheridan Lafaneu, really great.
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There are excerpts from other things,
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but I'll have extra credit stuff that you can read if you're interested that will enhance your enjoyment of Dracula.
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It's one of the perks of belonging to the book club
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okay how can you participate this is part of my patreon
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okay this is a bonus this is what we're doing for
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the month of october for my patreon my patreon is how i support this channel okay
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so it's 20 a month you can start
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and stop at any time you want
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if you want to just join just for dracula
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and then leave that's okay i don't think you should i think you should stick around for all the classics
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that we read there because it's fun
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and you will not find a more interesting
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or interested group of readers than the people who participate in my book club it is a terrific community
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so to participate just go to my patreon sign up there
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look for the posts okay there will be posts there there will be videos there
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and contact me once you sign up for the Patreon.
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Let me know that you're on Voxer
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and I will add you to the Voxer discussion group
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because that's where the discussion is going to take place is in
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that Voxer discussion group and in the comments to those videos.
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That's about how simple it is.
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I mean naturally you'll need to get a copy of Dracula
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and do the reading but if you want to participate that's all you got to do.
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Get a copy of the book, do the reading.
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If you're having trouble finding a copy of the book let
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me know i will help you get a copy of the book okay um
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but yeah this is a patreon only thing
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and you know i've got something free coming up for lone
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star book club members too we're going to be reading the turn of the screw that's free and
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if you're looking for a free option to read something scary
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with me in october you got it the turn of the
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screw is what we're reading as part of the Lone Star Book Club, and I'll make another video about that soon.
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But that's all you need to know about how to participate in the seriously well -read book club's reading of Dracula.
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Sign up over at my Patreon, get a boxer account if you don't already have one, let me know so that I can add you to the discussion group,
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read the book, and participate in the comments of the videos that I post over there at patreon .com.
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So this year, October belongs to Dracula.
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And even if you think you know the story, even if you read Dracula before, but especially if you haven't,
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I think this book and this discussion is going to have a lot to offer you.
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So we're going to start on October the 1st. If you're thinking about joining in, contact me and let me know if you have any questions.
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I include my email address and my Voxer in the description of all my videos, and you're welcome to contact me there anytime.
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You're going to get a faster response if you contact me via Voxer, though, that's for sure.
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And with that, I'm going to let you go.
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I'm just going to ask you to do two things for me before our next video.
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One, stay hydrated.
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It's so much more important than you think.
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And two, please, book two, stay sexy.
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I love you guys.
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| horror danh từ | /ˈhɒɹ.ə/ | sự khiếp, sự ghê rợn |
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| literary tính từ | /ˈlɪt.(ə.)ɹə.ɹi/ | văn học, văn chương |
| calendar danh từ | /ˈkæl.ən.də/ | lịch |
| phrase danh từ | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | cụm từ, câu |
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- Ghi âm giọng mình rồi so với bản gốc, chú ý các từ như participate, horror, arc.
Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?
Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.