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Date Posted: 15:21:55 04/23/02 Tue
Author: Adilbrand
Subject: Random ramblings
In reply to: theefool 's message, "Re: Christians should read Frankenstein" on 01:49:51 04/23/02 Tue

The best cheerleader site on the www is Lightspeed University. I used to be a member, but it got to be too expensive at one point. I could probably afford it now, but I have several thousand cheerleader pictures as it is, and don't really need too many others. I could burn you a CD or three and mail it to you if you want. But this site IS the best.

It is pronounced Styne.

Mary Shelley was a much better writer than Anne Rice. Anne Rice's vampire stories are more a commentary about subcultures in America than they are about the undead or about horror. She just uses the vampire motif as a convenient allegory. A lot of Queen of the Damned borrows heavily from Robert E. Howard, actually.

REH introduced a Stygian queen of vampires in Hour of the Dragon called Akivasha. Anne Rice seems to have lifted it, creating an Egyptian queen of the vampires named Akasha. There are other parallels, too, between those two characters written 60 years apart.

Her novel "The Mummy" is an unusual pastiche of ERB's Tarzan. Rice's Mummy is described identically to the way ERB described Tarzan and the Mummy even behaves like Tarzan (innate Nobility, etc.).

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