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 Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:20 pm
Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Edited by: Robert L. Mack
I just picked this up today at Barnes and Nobels. And was wondering if anyone else has read it, I havent started reading it, but just as I was reading the forward at the beginning of the book, I realised it may not be the easiet read I have ever done, so I will need to find my dictionary.
It is very fasanating, here is a qoute that pulled me in: "It is particularyly striking, too, that although the original narratives and dramas relating to Sweeney Todd quite clearly describe him as a late eighteenth-century figure (the action in Lloyd's novel, again, is very explicitly set in August 1785), his status in the popular imagination is that of a conspicuously Victorian figure; the time has transformed Todd into the companion, in fact, of 'Jack the Ripper' (fl. 1888-91). (pg. xxi - xxii)
so like what do you get from that qoute, I was kind of like wooha... and thought about it deeply... also for thoose of you who have read this, what did you think?
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Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 11:37 pm
oh and also (taken from the back cover"
"The story of Todd's entrepreneurial partnership with neighboring pir-maker Margery Lovett..."
and SHE does have a first name!!!!
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 4:25 am
Her first name in the movie is Nellie. No one knows what her name really was. (assuming she actually existed)
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:26 am
Wow! That's so cool!
I really want to read it but I don't know when, if ever, that I will have the opportunity.
Where was it that I found Mrs. Lovett's name for the broadway musical... Ah, well, it was something like Nellie, if not that.
Yeah, keep us updated on that book, eh? ^.^
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:13 am
*gasp* your all speculating 'ma real name!
Well... I-I, refuse to tell you 8D
(hehehe xDD)
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:18 am
Well, I already told them. It's Nellie. (Unless you mean your REAL name, because I know that too... 3nodding )
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Tentacle Girl Miruru Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:54 am
I just bought that book...it's not bad. Quite intriguing actually...I don't care for their description of Sweeney...I just imagine him as Johnny Depp's version. xd
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 7:18 pm
*rushes to b&n to buy sweeney todd*
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 9:23 pm
aw! i want that book! how much does it cost?
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:06 pm
paige_mustang aw! i want that book! how much does it cost? 10.95n but i got it for 6.89 with my mom's B&N members card. it is very - very fasicinating
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:08 pm
watchdawg77 I just bought that book...it's not bad. Quite intriguing actually...I don't care for their description of Sweeney...I just imagine him as Johnny Depp's version. xd very intriguing, and also an enjoyable read. Though I find myself going to the back and reading the notes alot.
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2008 10:11 pm
Number zero of org XIII Her first name in the movie is Nellie. No one knows what her name really was. (assuming she actually existed) The book is actually 'String of Pearls' and more about Johanna Oakley and Mark Ingestrie... Tobias is actually Mr. Todd's apperentice... and even though I am only on chapter four I find it very - very fasicnating. Mr. Todd's personality is much... much different and we have yet to meet Mrs. Lovett
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 12:13 pm
wait i dont get it what do pearls have to do with anything?
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 11:31 pm
XoXTobyXRaggXoX wait i dont get it what do pearls have to do with anything? They are a gift meant for Johanna Oakley from Mark if I am not mistaken, I have yet to get to them talking about the String of Pearls, but if i remember right that is what the original version of the story was called and Mr. Todd is not the main character Sting of Pearls is more like a love story between Johanna and Mark... It is the two year mark, and Mark promised Johanna that in 2 years from his departure that he would make contact with her and if none was made she is to pursume that he is dead.. and If my memory serves me correctly the string of pearls is a gift from him to be given to her... This is what happens when you are reading half a dozen things at once xD hard to remember everything that youve read. I am only on Chapter 6 of the novel, but I still suggest this read. Though Sweeney has a much more aggressive attuitude, and as for Tobias... well, he doesn't get along with MR. Todd all that well.
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:59 am
Did me and Toby ever get along anyway?...
Oh you know I'm kidding.
Or am I?
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