Lamb
Contains spoilers
Her real name is Mircalla but she’s goes by Millarca and Carmilla. Glad to know the tradition of glaringly obvious anagrams for vampires didn’t begin with Count Alucard.
I did not understand what was going on or why anyone was doing what they were doing or what they were planning to do or what they were saying or anything at all.
Pretty good book.
Dr. J. Montague: “Essentially, the evil is the house itself, I think. It has exhausted and destroyed its people and their lives, it is a place of contained ill will.”
Dr. E. Gadd: “Bodo bodo, oyama! Suku suku. Luigi!”
It came to be, in the winter of this year, that, having finished Herbert’s Dune and seeking something new to read, though not yet ready to read Dune Messiah, I came upon an untouched paperback in my bookcase, and, willing to plunge into a nautical adventure, I began reading Moby Dick. This being so, I, prepared to read a legendary classic and unaware of the Goliathan task before me, embarked upon a thee month navigation of dense prose which, in the end, I juggled with five other books; Stoker’s gothic masterpiece Dracula, for I am subscribed for the Dracula Daily newsletter; Crummey’s Sweetland, a novel I read with utmost haste to catch its adaptation ere it departed the silver screen; the aforementioned Dune Messiah, which I began late one evening when, finding myself tucked snugly in my bed and missing my copy of Moby Dick, I reached for the nearest book I had on hand; and ultimately God’s own Holy Bible, which I began reading for the express purpose of understanding the myriad of biblical references Miller employs. Nor was my reading in any way hastened — or indeed unimpeded — by the twisting, winding sentences one must reread twice ere grasping fully; a poetic labyrinth of prose one cannot parse without losing oneself of times; and the White Whale himself more terrible, more loathsome than any mere bull-headed Minotaur that Pasiphaë could muster! Alas, humble thyself Daedalus! Thy labyrinth may house a beast of Neptune’s own twisted design, but the Minotaur could do not but flail and drown when met with his elder brother, the leviathan!
Contains spoilers
Dracula shows up for the last 15 pages of this thing fully nude and the first thing he says is “I am Dracula.”
Not sure if it was in bad taste for me to read this on a four-day sleeper train journey but so far no-one’s been murdered so it should be fine.
Smokin' that Sam Gamgee, Southfarthing, lembas deluxe, Elbereth Gilthoniel, Skinbark, Bombadil pipe weed
Contains spoilers
If I had to listen to Lord Henry all the time I would go insane too.
This book nullifies my headcanon that District 4 is in Atlantic Canada so I will simply ignore its existence from here on out 👍
It's spelled like
⊃ ∪
∩ ⊂
on the back of my copy and that's sick. Airplanes that flap their wings are pretty cool too I guess.
If I was a Messianic oracle and Emperor of the Known Universe I would simply find the timeline where I get to just hang out and vibe.
Thomas Jefferson gets to judge the souls of the dead and decide if they go to good hell or bad hell or Kansas hell. It's so over 💀
I recognize that the way British people write maths in the plural is better and all but seeing jail spelled gaol sent me into cardiac arrest. We all have our limits.
Having read them both recently, I think Frankenstein is the better book but Dracula will forever be my favourite. The first Goth song wasn’t Boris Karloff’s Dead now was it?
