Dracula - Finished!

LACONICALLY: Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise.

PHLEGMATIC: Having or suggesting a calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional.

ADAMANTINE:

1. Made of or resembling adamant.

2. Having the hardness or luster of a diamond.

3. Unyielding; inflexible

 

SOJOURN: A temporary stay; a brief period of residence.

Near the end I found this book to get a little boring

Dracula - Half Way Through!

I think it might have been a bad idea to read this book during the spookiest holiday of the year. I've been having nightmares every night and am now just reading this book in the daylight. Therefore this read is taking me a little longer than anticipated, however not due to lack of interest on my behalf.

I found that the beginning of this book quite confusing only because of the numerous names and whereabouts of places that Jonathon Harker travelled to and from.

There are many sayings that are used (ei. to know her is to love her) that I thought were more modern than this book from the 1800s.

I love the way that this book is written, through journal entries and letters. I've never read any book that has done this before so I am finding it really interesting.

Reticent: inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech

Idolatrous:  of or relating to idolatry: the worship of a physical object as a god

Salient: moving by leaps or springs

Prodigious:

1: being an omen :  b : resembling or befitting a prodigy

2: exciting amazement or wonder

3: extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree

Languidly:

1: drooping or flagging from or as if from exhaustion

2: sluggish in character or disposition

3: lacking force or quickness of movement

Eminence: a position of prominence or superiority

Better get back to reading before it gets too late! Right now I'm so sad that Lucy died but my gut is telling me that she is simply in a vampire state and is going to wake up and start tormenting the people of England.

Dracula by Bram Stoker

I honour of Hallowe'en I have chosen a spooky book. I always thought that the Dracula character was invented more recently just for Hallowe'en, not that he was a historic literary character. Here is the summary:

Jonathan Harker is travelling to Castle Dracula to see the Transylvanian noble, Count Dracula. He is begged by locals not to go there, because on the eve of St George's Day, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will come full sway. But business must be done, so Jonathan makes his way to the Castle - and then his nightmare begins. His beloved wife Meena and other lost souls have fallen under the Count's horrifying spell. Dracula must be destroyed . . .

I get scared so easily so I am nervous about this one getting the best of me. I guess its time to toughen up though because looking through the list again, I see that there are many other books that look like they are terrifying.