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'It only entertains me,' said K., 'becsuse it provides insight into the ridiculous confusion that can sometimes dictate a person's existence.'
'you haven't glimpsed it yet,' replied the mayor seriously.

What a beautifully absurd book this is shaping up to be.

As funny as this is I'm actually finding the history of cartography to be the more interesting bit.

There's something...Sinister going on here, heh (sometimes a joke is just for me).

I think Mina might be the most flanderised character in all of fiction. She absolutely rocks in this.

I knew it was coming but it is frankly bonkers to me that the cowboy is in the original book!

Love how unknowable and mysterious the Count is. You worry that with how much vampire fiction there is the suspense of it all would become lost over the decades. But no, I'm as intrigued in the Count as I was in Remmick in Sinners (2025)

This was always such a weird team

Love the concept of Johnathan collecting recipes across Europe for Mina.

Somehow Stephen King wrote a book made explicitly and specifically to fit my tastes 22 years before i was born.

There's some Israel Palestine stuff in here which has aged baaaaaaadly

This is the first King I've read where the protagonist isn't, in some way, a writer. Trisha is already making for a great read and I've got to say I'm already a little worried for the poor girl.

"that's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding earlier."