Topic: Dracula: The Un-Dead (The "Official" Sequel)

[SiFi270]

Would this go with the Castlevania threads or in off topic discussion?

Anyway, I'm halfway through this tripe and it's hella dumb. Jonathan Harker dies solely so that Mina can fall in love with her metaphorical rapist, words are misspelled, nothing fits with the original book's canon, and the method of killing a vampire is changed solely so that Van Helsing can be connected to Jack the ripper.

Has anyone else suffered through this book?

[X]

I 've read the book wad was satisfied with it. If you want an explanation to all the questions that you have about it then flip to the back of the book and read the author's notes. It will tell you all you need to know about why the story is what it is. It will explain the connections of fictional characters and their real-life counterparts, and other things as well.

[Chernabogue]

I found the book okay. Not necessary but it was cool to see what happened after (even if the story was a bit disapointing IMO)

[SiFi270]

What's that, Ryan North, AKA funniest human alive? "Stop putting words in [your] mouth"? Why, I oughtta...



For some context to the more fortunate, at one point Mina is raped both metaphorically and literally by Elizabeth, the book's main antagonist, and she actually enjoys it at first, thinking it's Dracula, like it was in the first book. However, when she realizes it isn't him, she goes all double standard and declares it the worst thing that's ever happened to her.

[Fofa]

There are only so many ways I can say "I hate this book with a passion", and there are so many things wrong with it you'd have to write a novella to point them all out.

[SiFi270]

Well, there is one good thing about it: It isn't Hotel Transylvania.

[Inccubus]

Never heard of this "Official Sequel", but it sounds like drivel from the wikipedia description. Really? You got a B-movie script writer and a Stoker-descended coach? Sounds like the chemical formula for "suck-ass". Plus making Jack Seward into Jack the Ripper was totally RIPPED-off from the 1992 novel, "Anno Dracula". Which is a great book which is a "what-if" sequel to "Dracula" that assumes, that the heroes actually failed to kill Vlad III. And the cherry on top is the inclusion a Jiangshi assassin that is sent to kill... Jack IIRC.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Well, there is one good thing about it: It isn't Hotel Transylvania.

Actually that was a pretty cute movie.

[Sumac]

Plus making Jack Seward into Jack the Ripper

Wait, WHAT?!
I don't even...

[Kaori]

Well, there is one good thing about it: It isn't Hotel Transylvania.

I happen to like Hotel Transylvania...

Assuming we are talking about the book with Saint Germain, and not the movie. I have not read any of the other books in the series. And I have not seen that animated movie that shares the same name as the book, even though they are two different things, lol.

On another note, I should at some point at least try to read the sequel to Dracula. I liked the original, so I'm curious about the sequel.

[SiFi270]

So Mina has just referred to herself, proudly I might add, as "Dracula's Adulterous Whore".

I'm becoming increasingly tempted to ram a stake through this book.

[Flame]

I read the plot summary. basically, TL;DR,

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GUYS I WASN'T REALLY A BAD GUY, I STILL CONSIDERED MYSELF A SOLDIER OF GOD AFTER DEATH AND I WAS REALLY HERE TO KILL ELIZABETH BATHORY!
(despite everything to the contrary in the original book, where he was essentially just a force of malice with a childlike brain, who shunned the cross and killed in cold blood)

How about: "THE CREW OF THE DEMETER? AW I DIDN'T KILL THEM! IT WAS A VIRUS!

The fuck kind of virus causes all someone's blood to just up and evaporate?

among other horrible plot retcons.

The fuck Dacre. Your cool name will not save you. Stoker or not, DIE MONSTER. YOU DON'T BELONG IN THIS WORLD. srsly, please never write again... Sherlock Holmes vs Dracula was better connected to the original book than the sequel written by Stoker's own descendant! just WOW!

[Fofa]

So Mina has just referred to herself, proudly I might add, as "Dracula's Adulterous Whore".

I'm becoming increasingly tempted to ram a stake through this book.

I'm actually surprised that the "adulterous whore" line hasn't been turned into an internet meme yet.

[Flame]

While we are on the subject, happy 165th birthday to Brahm Stoker.

[TheCruelAngel]

Never heard of this "Official Sequel", but it sounds like drivel from the wikipedia description. Really? You got a B-movie script writer and a Stoker-descended coach? Sounds like the chemical formula for "suck-ass". Plus making Jack Seward into Jack the Ripper was totally RIPPED-off from the 1992 novel, "Anno Dracula". Which is a great book which is a "what-if" sequel to "Dracula" that assumes, that the heroes actually failed to kill Vlad III. And the cherry on top is the inclusion a Jiangshi assassin that is sent to kill... Jack IIRC.

I've been tempted to pick up Anno Dracula, hearing great things about it, especially since there's a reprint of it. I take it you would whole heartedly recommend it?