Tag: gothichorror

Good day,

It has been a while. I’ve had a hard time reading Lord of the Rings, so I took a long break and read Dracula.

My theory was well if I can finish reading my number one most hated book then I can read anything. And its proven to have helped me stay focused. I read it on a kindle so I could look up word I had never heard of or that were used differently that what I’m use to.

Brief moment to talk about Dracula unabridged. Skip this if you don’t want spoilers.

Character introduction:

County Dracula: a man of many skills. He’s a magician, he is a great host, he is a skilled chef, he is a chamber pot maid, and he’s also into expanding his real estate. He’s also besties with the gypsies in the village.

Mina Harker: she’s that friend who never says anything mean about anyone but also has no idea what’s going on all the time. All the men adore her but in admiration not in lust.

Lucy Westenra: she’s into boys. Her theme song would be ‘Boys’ by Charlie xCx. If I were to cast her with whoever from whatever time, it would be Marilyn Monroe.

Quincey Morris! My favorite character he’s the only one really understood the assignment. He saw a bat and he shot a bat and guess what THAT GIANT BAT WAS DRACULA. He’s also a Texan, which so random. The author really loves Texas and USA. They have a line in there about if all men are like Quincey blah blah back home blah blah. Quincey is the dude and honestly if it were just him and Van Helsing the story would be shorter.

Arthur Holmwood: I do not know this man.

Jonathan Harker: annoying. He should have died day one. Mina’s fiancé then husband and honestly this man was denser than Mina. 

Renfield: I got a bone to pick with everyone on this dude when they made every movie I’ve seen with Dracula. He is a patient at the psych ward and he likes to eat bugs and progresses up to eating raw birds. Dracula meets him (because they’re neighbors) and he’s like yo do my bidding blah blah give you want you want in life.

Dr. John Seward: this dude was so lame he is out there being a ‘doctor’ but he’s main hobby is watching Renfield and running experiments on him. He’s Van Helsing’s student. 

Abraham Van Helsing: he’s old, smart and very busy. Helsing is mostly corresponding with Dr. Seward regarding Lucy and how she’s getting sick. Because apparently there is only one doctor and its Dr. Seward.

Anyways they live close by with Dr. Seward being Dracula’s neighbor. 

Dracula is a terrible being and it even seems he’s more animal than person. And I say this because it takes him a moment to realize he can move he box of dirt vs hiring people to move it. And just a bunch of other little things through out the book that remind me of an animal who just has the goal of eating vs living well and blending in.

MEDICAL STUFF IN THE BOOK: There is so much blood transfusions in this book that I’m surprised no one died of it. No one is type and crossed everyone is just giving blood on the spot and no one is having allergic reactions. Van Helsing just does brain surgery in here too on Renfield, just digging around in his brain. 

Mental Connection: Mina has a mental connection with Dracula before he could kill her which makes sense why in most movies she’s the love interest. In the book Dracula is just feeding on these women and men because they’re just next door. Mina is poor so of course she’s always hanging out at Lucy’s house. Me too I love hanging out at my friends houses who have the fire place.

Sea Chase: That’s right there is a sea chase. Dracula has been caught red handed figures he needs to flee and he gets in his dirt box and gets on ship home.  Mina has that mental connection so they all board a ship and chase after him and Mina updates telling them..still at sea.

This whole book was funny. I had to stop a lot because of how funny things were. It was a gothic christian horror book, that’s the best way I could describe it.

Anyways, I’m glad I finally finished reading this book it just took me three years. Each year I start it in January and hate it then I drop it. But this year I powered through it gave myself some grace, its okay to read older books slowly.

So I’m back at Lord of the Rings. I’ll update in the next day or two.

See yall later!