i finally finished bram stoker's DRACULA and regret to say that despite its towering reputation its kind of shit, as a book
too much:
-incomprehensible speechifying from Van Helsing in a weird clumsy iteration of a Dutchman's English
-chasing, and I cannot emphasize this enough, after boxes of dirt, for like the entire back half of the novel
-the phrase "I am but a poor weak woman"
-train schedules
not enough: -ACTUAL VAMPIRE STUFF beyond the kickass beginning in jonathan harker's journal. the Count gets like 3 scenes and the rest of the time its just sloppy friends chasing dirt boxes
-the entire potential of Renfield is completely squandered????? what was the point????
really wondering how the "operation warp speed" plans are gonna mesh with the literally millions of americans who sincerely believe the coronavirus vaccine is the mark of the beast, a thing from revelations
a student dmed me to ask me to summarize my book bc it got assigned for a class project and she hasnt read it. amazing on so many levels
mostly im just hype to be on a syllabus, hmu professors i will Zoom into your class
this tweet seems to have made a lot of people mad so i'll just say: empathy for students struggling right now; it didn't seem to be an issue of inability to afford the book, or i would have responded differently; and no, i did not assign my own book, i am not a professor
the two rules of star trek are never go to conferences and never trust a Starfleet Admiral, and yet during the ds9 episode "Inter arma enim silent leges," dr bashir trusts an admiral AT a conference. nothing good can come of this
sweet outfit, though
nothing good ever happens at conferences in star trek!!!!