Jun. 25th, 2022

troisoiseaux: (reading 2)
I finished Dracula!! I found it very fun, overall, although there was definitely some stuff that was just, hoo boy, as a result of reading a book from 1897, 120+ years later. (Although some stuff aged better than expected or intended— like, hell yeah, Lucy! You should be able to marry three guys!) I really enjoyed the narrative style - a story pieced together through letters and diary entries by different characters, occasional newspaper articles for spice, etc. - and I was surprised and charmed by the ratio of fairly straightforward detective work to Dramatic Battles that went into vampire-hunting— e.g., I feel like there was way more of Jonathan and co. gumshoeing around London, than stakeouts with literal stakes.

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