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And now: the condensed TV-movie-of-the-week Udolpho. Names have been changed to protect the innocent.
— Sep 24, 2010 07:17AM
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Matthew Gregory Lewis, author of the infamous The Monk writes: 'I would advise you to read it by all means; but I must warn you, that it is not very entertaining till St. Aubyn's [sic] death. His travels, to my mind, are uncommonly dull, and I wish heartily that they had been left out, and something substituted in their room.' That's what I thought! Even imagining Valancourt as Andrew Garfield didn't help.
— Sep 26, 2010 06:43AM
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One contemporary reviewer - a serial comma abuser - loves Emily's propriety: '[She] is early warned by her father against indulging the pride of fine feelings - (the romantic error of amiable minds) - and is taught that the strength of fortitude is more valuable than the grace of sensibility. Hence she acquires a habit of self-command, which gives a mild dignity to her manners, and a steady firmness to her conduct.'
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Volume I ends on page 42! The whole novel ends on page 90! This is like Udolpho with film serial pacing.
— Sep 25, 2010 10:31PM
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HA! Are there fewer trees? Shorter trees?
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Moira wrote: "HA! Are there fewer trees? Shorter trees?"The only preserved bit of description so far - I think; I have a much greater tolerance for endless description of trees than I did a month ago - is a heavily condensed word-picture I particularly liked in the original:
'Through a vast vista of the mountains appeared the low-lands of Roussillon, beyond which the waters of the Mediterranean shewed a distant sail steering along its misty bosom.'
Apart from the name changes, The Veiled Picture really does just read like a Wikipedia synopsis.
Bri wrote: "I have a much greater tolerance for endless description of trees than I did a month agoYou were pine-oculated! (sorry, heh)
Apart from the name changes, The Veiled Picture really does just read like a Wikipedia synopsis."
OH MAN DON'T MAKE ME FEEL SORRY FOR POOR ANN
Moira wrote: "You were pine-oculated!"Groan. AGAINST DUTCH ELM DISEA - oh, that doesn't even make sense.
"OH MAN DON'T MAKE ME FEEL SORRY FOR POOR ANN "
Try and read Udolpho again and see how charitable you're feeling! I triple dare you!
(Anyway, my beef was never that the traveloguey parts are badly written - Radcliffe actually wrote a travelogue, ha. I think considering she never travelled much herself, they're pretty nifty. It's that a) there are so damn many traveloguey parts and b) they take up exactly as much space in the book as the actual events, which are sometimes even described in a sort of Wikipedia-summary form themselves.)
Groan. AGAINST DUTCH ELM DISEA - oh, that doesn't even make sense.AHAHAHA
Try and read Udolpho again and see how charitable you're feeling! I triple dare you!
I don't have a copy! And uh, it's no longer on Gutenberg! (No, there it is. Hah.)
they take up exactly as much space in the book as the actual events, which are sometimes even described in a sort of Wikipedia-summary form themselves
............man. Yeah, I might go back and try to see it as the inspiration for a genre, rather than expecting anything juicy. Maybe. Later. (600 pages!)
