"I LOVE THIS BOOK!!! I love the deadpan humor, and the cute flying saucer alien who visits Earth on the perfect night for him to be incognito, and that it's set during Halloween, and, and, and... just EVERYTHING!
I miss trick-or-treating. Fun-size candy really IS fun.
Thank you, Marie, for reminding me about this one. :)"

"Future literary scholars will confirm that Space Case is among the crowning achievements of the English language. Here, Edward Marshall surpasses the eloquent banality of Shakespeare, whose works might have benefited from the illustrations of the late James Marshall. Here the Marshalls are at the height of their powers--articulating the human condition with an inscrutable nuance and heartfelt understanding. Scholars of Immanuel Kant and young children alike will find profundity in the simple yet resonant narrative, as will visiting extraterrestrials (be they Kantian scholars or not). Space Case is a rare literary achievement whose capacity to transcend and enlighten are incomprehensible. It has saved millions of lives--among them countless eight-year-olds on the brink of suicide, for whom Space Case offered a newfound hope in humanity. No home is complete without at least three copies of this book."

"Dracula: the very name instantly brings to mind visions of vampires, stakes, garlic, and crucifixes. Yet, when one bothers to read the novel, it becomes self-evident how twisted modern vampire fiction now is.

Vampires are not meant to inhabit the roles of heroes. Go back a few hundred years and men believed truly that the vampire was a real immortal, cursed to quench his undying thirst with a living mortal’s blood. The very idea of a blood drinker should, therefore, inspire the image of a villain within the mind. And that is what the titular character of this novel is.

The word novel is not used lightly, as one could also write that this is a collaboration of journals, letters and papers. For that is how Bram Stoker chose to fashion his famous novel (in epistolary form). While the different viewpoints through each journal serve to create suspense which suits the gothic tone of the novel perfectly.

In all, it is a macabre novel that serves to make the reader reflect upon good and evil. The vampire, to me, is nothing more than an indication of man’s cursed nature. Who, unless he is delivered, must suck the life from others around him. Ultimately only the righteous can destroy the darkness that serves to drain life. That is the lesson which Bram Stoker's timeless classic unswervingly conveys."