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While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining …
I really thought I could just read this known dry book easily and be okay to go onto another dry book after. Absolutely not, I'm reading a trashfire poto book or some good fantasy after this
While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining …
It's not bad but it is so, so dry (which is why it's taking me so fuckin long to get through it)
While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining …
It's a lot less dry now, I wonder why I had to struggle through the actual dracula bits...
While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining …
This has been slower read than anticipated, I find myself spacing out a ton. But regardless, there is no heterosexual explanation for dracula looking at Harker and immediately saying "yes I can love"
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is Robert Louis Stevenson's thriller allegory of a medical experiment gone …
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus , was completed by Mary Shelley at the age of 19. She infused this original …
While Bram Stoker didn't invent the vampire, his 1897 novel Dracula has been the defining …
Another thing I've been putting off for years
"In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the …
Content warning Very mild spoilers
Okay, so I've got some issues with parts of this novel. The part consisting of Erik's childhood was a bit too long, and the bit with Erik suddenly serving the devil when he hears Christine confess her love for Raoul seemed very out of place for him. Someone who has been an atheist for that long likely wouldn't swing to that — he'd just fly off the handle like a "normal" deranged misanthrope.
The Romani part was also a bit insensitive in bits, but it was the 90s so I'm not surprised. Same with the weird Orientalism going on with the shah's harem and just generally how the government around the shah is portrayed. Erik is also way too good at everything. So good that I don't know if his murderous instincts and personality flaws are enough to offset it.
But oh my god, the absolute heartbreaking throes of despair and longing Erik goes through during the core of the Christine plot... I will unashamedly admit I cried at the very end of it when she returns that last time before getting married. Erik was written quite well overall and I liked all the descriptions of his outfits and how the fabric moved. I'm also a bit obsessed with the attire the phantom wears in the ALW musical generally, tho, so...
Anyway, finally crossed off some new blorbo material. Let's goooo
"In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the …
Man, I've been listening to something heartbreaking while reading ends of books for the last couple books I've read. I need to stop doing this, crying is so inconvenient
"In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the …
There's no heterosexual explanation for this, pharoga confirmed /j
"In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the …
Welp, now its time for the opera bit of the book
"In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the …
We love our boy Nadir
"In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the …
Wondering how Erik is gonna have shit rain down on him this time
"In this novel, Susan Kay re imagines Gaston Leroux's famous novel "The Phantom of the …
Why do I keep doing this to myself
