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Reading in drips and drabs. Incredibly interesting.

And really the characters themselves. Dracula is portrayed amazingly, and I love the small details, like his “welcome to my house, enter freely and of your own will!” It’s like his giving himself permission to do what he wants with Harker just because he signed the verbal contract by entering the house. The reading on English life as well is also interesting, clearly showing Draculas smarts. Good book so far.

Become this big pop culture thing. Hotel Transylvania obviously helps a lot to reinforce its public image. Which is great for the author (even though he is LONG dead, so it’s actually great for the publisher), but I just know if I had read this book with very little knowledge of vampires, this would’ve have been terrifyingggg to read. Ok so on to the book itself. I love the way Stoker describes the scene (2/3)

Harker you clever cookie. I feel like it’s quite rare the protagonist actually figures out wtf is going on so fast and it’s always like a “oh no… it’s too late… I’m doomed..” scenario. I mean, he was doomed from the moment he stepped foot inside so, I guess he’s already cooked. I think reading this when it was originally published would’ve made for a much better read, before vampires had (1/2)

Okkkk a little bit of world building I like it Picasso

WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED OH MY GOD

Millers greed sickens me. It wasn’t a rogue buffalo, it was greediness and selfishness. The snow blew in out of nowhere, and they barely survived. Basically everyone has gone crazy and Miller is honestly the reason they’re all still alive

There it is. Buff sickness; or a charging buffalo. His remorseless killing will come back to him.

The key to whatever could possibly happen. He is really the most important character in this story.

I think there’s one possible outcome here, and I’m pretty confident! So, this is what will happen; Miller will get injured. Maybe gets too greedy, and a buffalo charges him. Miller had previously made Schneider go easy on Will, so if he’s not there to do that all hell could break loose between them. Additionally, these characters are all unified BY Miller. Miller also knows the way home. So he really is (1/2)

This book is genuinely so good. I feel like I’m genuinely stuck with these characters, and i feel like we’ve seen all of their vices. Miller, a generally calm guy, LOVES the hunt. He loves to kill. He loves shed blood. Schneider is lustful. Hoge is an alcoholic. Williams is trying to understand himself, and begins to unravel himself at the end of chapter 5. He is becoming them, in a way.

“‘Fred,’ Miller said quietly, ‘when you crawl away from here, crawl away quiet. If these buffalo spook, I’ll shoot you.’” Genuinely chills.

Fuckinggg hell they made it. By hook or by fucking crook they made it. After no water, passing out, almost losing their animals, and being partially lost many times, they made it. I have no idea how they’ll get back over the mountain with the hides though. Now, the real story begins.

Wow. These people are so frozen in the past but so desperate for the future. And they spend their present wasting away, sinning over their vices.

I’m nervous about Schneider. He’s a quiet man, seemingly lost in his own thoughts a lot. But he likes to grin a lot, and he was also after Francine, until she went for Will instead. I think tensions might boil over with them.

Ofc, why wouldn’t you have a brief mention of incest? All jokes aside, the book is good so far. It’s really hard to describe it though. I think to describe it in a single word, pensive. It feels like a dream.

Some impatient mfs in this town. He’s met Miller, a hunter talking of a large herd of buffalo, ripe for the taking. It’s as simple as travel there, hunt for a week, travel back.
Charley, Millers friend, refuses to go. He lost his hand far out from town, and is scared of going so far away. I think the fact he is religious combined with his refusal to go is interesting. Like god is trying to tell them not to go.

A slow start for will.

“To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of man”

Not bad. Definitely got better since Alan came around, a lot more interesting.

I’m kinda confused with what’s going on. So ebeneezer killed his brother (our protagonists (David) father (Alexander). He tried to kill him by making him fall down a staircase, and now he’s been kidnapped? But it’s okay because he’s gonna tell his life story to Mr Riach, a man onboard the ship he can trust only when he’s had a few drinks.