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[skygiants]

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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[jezrana.livejournal.com]

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.

[skygiants]

*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.

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

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!!"

[skygiants]

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:

[jezrana.livejournal.com]

...vampire lore trivia. Whut, brain.