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Generally not a fan of modern written romance but I'm actually enjoying this book overall and im fact the romance part? Who am I?

Written so much in the tumblr purple prose style that it feels like amateurish fanfiction rather than an actual book. Also I know that this is supposed to be a take on Dracula's brides but some elements are making me go: IWTV????. Idk I'm going to keep trying ig

Last book of my John Darnielle bibliography reread...... Just smacked out 40 pages in 36 minutes I love this man's writing sososososo much.

Just finished the first (titular) story and god is Carter's prose magnificently lush..... love it

Agatha you can't just reinvent Mycroft Holmes but for Poirot. Also this book is kinda bad 👍

I know most people don't enjoy this book but when I first read it I was 15 and just getting into TMG and it was the first and only book I had read for fun for months. So even though I am just now picking it up a second time, 7 years later, I could probably never hate it

GRANADA HOLMES MENTION???!!!!!!!!!!!!

Usually I don't make a comment on when I dnf something but guys this is so obnoxious I cannot force myself to continue. So bye byes

I feel like I'm legally obligated to like this as a Shakespeare fan but by god is it trying soooo hard AND there have been two racial or racially-related metaphors that have made me wary. Also lol @ the dean named Holinshed

Listened to 20% in the car with my sister Sara, and then a whopping 25% more with us just lying in one twin-sized bed with our eyes closed because two twin siblings with head hurty knows no bounds. Hopefully I like this better than the first three!

This page has completely ripped out of the binding of my edition from the 1960s 3 diva DOWN ! Also. "Very well–what would be a longuistically accurate characterization of a man? His raven-black hair... The waves of his hair... His eyes radiating azure beams... His steely muscles..." GAYASS!!!

Reading this for fun (my idea of fun is.... interesting) after being the sole Eisenstein writing style defender in my cinema studies senior seminar on editing. I <3 film theory

I have no fun quote I just want to say I have read 105 pages of this today because I desperately need to finish it before its due back at the library in two days

"Welles had conceived an enormous affection for Cotten, something very like love" 🏳️‍🌈🤔

"The chronology may be out, but the relationship is clear: Welles had found himself another daddy, as he was to do so often in his young manhood" DON'T SAY IT LIKE THAT

Graham Greene was smoking some shit when he wrote this because why was Lord Alfred Douglas and the Prince of Whales there but lile I have to respect he made Raffles gay

This is great so far considering that in the first story Bunny says "It was Raffles I loved" and in the third Bunny dresses in women's clothes

Hey guys why does this end like that. Why would they do that to him

Finished the first story. How are they somehow gayer than Holmes and Watson. This repeatedly makes lockpicking/burglary sound like gay sex which honestly I have to respect

100 pages in and Welles is only 16. And alreayd the luckiest and coolest man to ever live

Am not generally a biography reader especially not ones of 600+ pages but I just read 60 pages of this in one sitting 😭

NO ONE LOOK AT ME!!!!!!!!!! What can I say. I love that old man

No one look at me. Yes I am reading this out of a combination of childhood nostalgia + morbid curiosity + guilty pleasure. Normally I hate YA, romance, and fantasy much less a YA ROMANTASY. But we stay silly

Y'all, I never finished the last 30 minutes of this on audio when I had to read it for class, and I think I'm just going to declare it done and say I read it despite that