Hooray! No skipping ahead to find the post-it. I will know when you find it from your screams.

DRACULA SEQUEL FAIL. I'm going to keep a list of all the ways Dracula The Undead fails at canon or even basic Googling. I mean, I expect liberties to be taken with the original text, but some of what I've read so far is inexcusable. And I'm only something like 9 chapters in.

Hee. But remember Stoker is a character in this. He got some stuff wrong in his version of events, is all.

It really is just like one of Meyer's Holmes books. Except witless.

Hee. But remember Stoker is a character in this. He got some stuff wrong in his version of events, is all.

But but but! Having Mina tell her son that exposure to the sun will turn Dracula to ash! When Mina and Jonathan saw him in London in broad daylight! Gaaah!

While I was in the bath reading last night, I asked Pete to do a Google image search for a portrait of Elizabeth Bathory, because I hit the description of her having "midnight black" hair and "icy blue" eyes, and then my head exploded. (Historical portraits show reddish-brown hair and dark eyes.)

In other words, I'm reading it with one of my copies of the Annotated Dracula nearby, and occasionally muttering "Google, motherfuckers!" under my breath.

I can't say anything except: You're going to love the ending SO MUCH!

Oh, and in entirely unrelated news: happy anniversary of Poe's death! They're going to give him a brand new funeral this weekend.

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While I was in the bath reading last night

that's sort of a meta-appropriate location for reading that part, isn't it?

that's sort of a meta-appropriate location for reading that part, isn't it?

Heh, yes. Pity I didn't have any of the blood red bath salts a friend of mine makes.

I finished the damn book last night. I would like to set the authors on fire. A lot. Including Bram Stoker as a character in the Dracula sequel, and having the original characters from the book (including Dracula himself) comment on how Stoker's book got things wrong and is a pack of lies COULD have been a clever idea IN THE HANDS OF PEOPLE WITH WRITING TALENT.

Strega, I'll have you know that I loudly exclaimed "JESUS!" when I got to where your post-it note was. Pete stuck his head around the bathroom door and said "Is it the section Strega mentioned? What is it?"

I will eventually write a huge, cranky review of the book on LJ. But for now, SET THEM ON FIRE. A LOT.

flounces off clutching copies of Anno Dracula and Daughter Of The Night

That part made me go, "Okay, you're doing this intentionally, right? Because you can't not know what this sounds like? Right? Right?!"

And what did the bit at the end with The Titanic even mean? Was the idea, "You thought that we were setting up a sequel, but actually they all drown, ha!" or "It wasn't really an iceberg, it was, um, maybe the Loch Ness Monster or something, we haven't quite worked that out yet," or what? So bewildering.

this is really fun to read without reading the white font.

It sort of looks like indignant sputtering