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cupenny = best birthdaytwin ever. :D Her present is currently marking my spot in the copy of Dracula I am reading for class.

As re: Dracula - reading it for the first time in several years and having so much fun. This book makes me laugh lots and that is why I love it. Oh, that wacky Jonathan Harker. I have also been informed that we are watching clips from 'Buffy vs. Dracula' in class for the discussion, which: HAHAHAHA.

However. Dorm bathrooms? I have no problem with conserving energy; however, switching the lights off suddenly when I am naked and in the shower, especially when I have just been reading Dracula, is not, as you might think, wildly entertaining. No love, me.

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Ahaha. I just checked Dracula out from the library, though not for a class, just for "hmm, I like horror but have never read Dracula, this should be fixed!"

Though I have yet to get to anything more fun than ~~Bram Stoker being all "LOOK! LOOK, I RESEARCHED TRANSYLVANIA! THIS IS WHAT TRANSYLVANIA'S LIKE, GUYS! I KNOW BECAUSE I DID RESEARCH!!!"~~Jonathan Harker waxing lyrical about the countryside and all those quaint susperstitious peasants.

*giggles* That was my thought process when I first read it a few years ago.

And the first few pages of the book are awesome! *snickering* I mean. It is like,

Jonathan Harker: La la la. Transylvania is pretty.
Peasants: You're going to die.
Jonathan Harker: These peasants are so quaint. I must note down that goulash recipe for Mina. Oh dear! I am having bad dreams of a future dark and terrible fate.
Peasants: This is because you are going to die. Hello, Transylania? HERE THERE BE VAMPIRES.
Jonathan Harker: It must have been the goulash. Darn foreign foods.
Peasants: Yes. LIKE YOUR BLOOD.

Yes, but I am impatient for melodramatic vampiric hijinks which cannot commence until he gets to the castle already!

Also I have the huge annotated edition edited by Leonard Wolf, so there are scads of footnotes which are occasionally awesome vampire lore trilogy but are sometimes details from Transylvanian travel guides or recipes for all the food Harker keeps describing. It's like "LOOK I RESEARCHED TRANSYLVANIA TOO AND MORE THOROUGHLY AND IN THE 2OTH CENTURY, TAKE THAT STOKER!!"

ooooh, annotations. *shiny eyes*

- I mean. Um. *coughs and sidles out of Realm of Geekitude* (The footnotes in my version are all like, 'the New Woman! She rode bicycles! And smoked! And ... yeah, that's that.)

Melodramatic vampiric hijinks will commence shortly, do not fear! But there still remain the classic Harknerian gems. *fond* Other favorite part of the book -

Dracula: *STORMS IN, ALMOST DRINKS JONATHON'S BLOOD, BREAKS MIRROR IN WHICH HIS REFLECTION DOES NOT APPEAR*
Jonathan: It is very annoying, for I do not see how I am to shave now. D:

...vampire lore trivia. Whut, brain.

Oh man, Dracula is so utterly badass. It's like an action movie in epistolary form!

It is! Badass, and hilarious. I think my favorite part has to be when the villagers are planning to call the SPCA on wolf!Dracula.

Epistolary novels are so much fun.

Mine are everything Dracula does, EVER, because he's a CRAZY-ASS MOFO. WITH A FASHIONABLE STRAW HAT.

Close second is Van Helsing, who is just hilarious sometimes.

YES omg to both.

(I just reread past the part where Van Helsing is like "haha! Polygamy is wacky fun!" Oh, I love him.)

I also just start giggling every time Quincy shows up. Because why is there a Texan cowboy in this novel. Why.

BECAUSE AN ACTION MOVIE IS NEVER COMPLETE WITHOUT A COWBOY.

SO TRUE.

HE IS COWBOY GUY!

Because he's from America and isn't that nifty? Listen to his funny American slang!

...I have perhaps been skipping around a bit.

I have perhaps been skipping around enough of a bit to declare Van Helsing the wacky bad-English-speaking vampire-hunting professor of my heart.

Oh god, the best part of class is listening to my teacher read out salient points of Van Helsing's dialogue. Finally he just threw down the book and declaimed, "I AM NOT DOING ACCENTS."

But. Yes. Van Helsing = crazy crazy love. Even if, you know, he's

**SPOILER**

not the most competent at, like, actually keeping vampire victims alive. >.> *pats Lucy*

BUT HER IMMORTAL SOUL IS OKAY, AND THAT IS WHAT MATTERS!

Just, whatever you do, don't watch Bram Stoker's Dracula. Don't do it if you value your sanity!

Ahahaha.

Watch it?

I wrote a paper on it, my friend.

I fear it is too late for you. :(

But at least there was lesbian subtext? I mean, there are much more horrible ways to go.

It might have even balanced out cavorting Anthony Hopkins. But nothing can overcome ~~Neo~~ Keanu as Johnathan.

It's been too late for me since the Utena movie. This only cemented the deal, really.

Oh, Keanu Reaves.
Your face is like unto a
Block of uncarved wood.

I was reading the book this time around, and thinking wistfully of what different casting would have done for Jonathan. ~~Norrington~~ Jack Davenport! He would have pulled off the Cheerfully Oblivious Lawyeritude with style.

I was suppose to read Dracula my senior year in high school. Empasis on the 'suppose'. *shifty*

*giggles* I ... was not supposed to read it my senior year in high school, or not for any particular reason, but I did anyways. And have never regretted it.

See above, re: polygamy and random cowboys!

Well, then. *glances over at bookshelf where Dracula/Frankenstein/Jekyl&Hyde (all in one!) resides* I might have to read it then.

And why is there no escape from the cowboy??!! *flails*

Says the cowboy:

im in ur novels
mutilatin ur american slang

Says the Becca: Dracula and Jekyll and Hyde are both so worth reading. Personally, I loathe Frankenstein, but opinions on this differ!

*~~screams~~ giggles*

Frankenstein moer liek WANKENSTEIN, amirite?

You are not wrong!

I believe the significant difference is that in Dracula, the quaint eccentricities and occasional stupidities of the characters make me want to pat them fondly on the head. In Frankenstein, they make me want to beat Victor Frankenstein to death with a poker.

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