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Dracula - 4/5 stars: I thought the epistolary format was interesting; I think overall the writing was very good and it had a lot of good quotes in it. It keeps you interested the entire way through, and it's great if you love gothic literature. Would recommend.

Idiots and racism. This short story ends in 70 pages. The next 13 start in the 600s. I’m gonna make it. It’s still gonna take me a long time. Idiots and racists apparently mongoose/mongeese (don’t tell me how to spell it, I like it) are completely expendable.

I’m on the third novella. Everyone is still an idiot. And the main character keeps buying mongooses and they keep getting killed. And the story (which is amazingly simple just full of idiots) keeps letting this man adopt a mongoose each time one dies. All I know is the book is extremely racist about Africans, home chick is definitely the reincarnation of the “white worm” and mongoose (mongeese?) are expandable.

Second story done. They are all still idiots. But all the undead die. And all the living die, save one. Who lives with death, ignorance, and awful grammar forever.

Next story!

Stoker does not know the grammatical punctuation for the words “that” and “which” and if he was still alive I’d probably stab him for this, let alone the absolute idiots he lets run the story.

Finished with Dracula. I love Mina and still consider this a favorite book and I’m so glad to have this big Dracula themed year.