Another Book Finished

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Last night I finished Renfield by Barbara Hambly, a re-telling of Bram Stoker's Dracula mostly from Renfield's POV. It was fairly interesting but the best re-telling is Fred Saberhagen's The Dracula Tapes written from Drac's POV and making him the hero. For instance it would appear that it was actually Van Helsing and the others who were responsible for Lucy's death when they transfused their blood into her, ignorant as they were of the different blood types. I usually don't read much horror/fantasy but Barbara Hambly is one of the handul of authors I will read. She wrote one of the best and most imaginative ST:TOS novels when she somehow had the brainstorm to cross that 'verse with that of "Here Come the Brides"!! I don't know how she dreamt that up (the only thing they had in common was that Mark Lenard, Robert Brown and David Soul were both leads on HCtB and guest stars on ST:TOS). Ishmael was one of a handful of books that I read as an adult and almost literally became addicted to - I re-read it constantly over a period of several months after the initial reading. The other books were Grace Ingram's Red Adam's Lady, Mary Renault's The Persian Boy and Elizabeth Lynn's The Sardonyx Net. Now that I've spent decades reading books, the re-reading compulsion hasn't occured in years except for certain fanfics online.