I had started reading Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” about a year ago and then I put it down for some unknown reason, probably the semester starting. That is normally the cause, school ruins my reading schedule. Well, after reading Kostova’s “The Historian” I picked it up again. The further I read the more interesting it is. It is nothing like I would have thought. The first couple of chapters with Jonathan Harker in Dracula’s Castle are what I expected but then it delves into the stories of people who seem to be in an entirely different world than the dark forests of Transylvania. But then the worlds cross and well, that’s where I’m at now, about half way through and discovering why Stoker’s novel has never been out of print since it was first published.
A few passages I found interesting:
So, I know I’m not supposed to like the Count but I do appreciate his feelings towards old houses:
“… to live in a new house would kill me. A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.”
I think the best line though so far was when the Count warned Harker:
“We are in Transylvania and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.”
Talk about chilling… kind of a realization of Alice going down the rabbit hole and entering a world so foreign.
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