/lit/ - Literature

it's really boring and terrible
maybe in the 1890s this format of it sort of being like uncovering a mystery with different letters was cool but it really does suck

I'm afraid to read this.
It changed the entire course of fiction, how could it possibly live up to its own legacy?

/lit/ told me this sucked after the first Jonathan Harker entries. I’m half way through and still glued to it. You guys lied to me.

Have you ever had to close a book because it was too scary?

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you seriously have trouble reading epistolary novels?
pathetic desu

I read this for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it.
I had heard in the past that there was homoerotic subtext - which went totally over my head. After looking up arguments for this, people to seem to rely solely on Dracula telling the three women to not touch Johnathan, because he belonged to Dracula alone. But in the story, Johnathan still has work to do for Dracula - and Dracula never attempts to bite Johnathan. Bizarrely enough, he actually leaves Johnathan for dead - not once draining his blood. This alone seems to destroy the supposed argument that Dracula meant it in some kind of gay way. On top of that, Dracula has no hesitation to drain women. Interestingly, we only ever know of him biting women. The three “brides”, Lucy, and Mina are all women.
It seems to me that the argument for there being homoerotic subtext goes so far as to negate its own point - and if anything, shows that Dracula had ONLY interest in women. The only other arguments I could find related to the fact that Bram Stoker was gay, and the ongoing Oscar Wilde trial would have caused Stoker to have great anxiety about being a closeted gay man during this time - as a result, he would use the novel as an outlet for his fears. I don’t see this at all, and none of the pages I read, or videos I watched, had any other proof than “Stoker was gay so Dracula is gay”.
What are your thoughts on this?

What am I in for?

I hate to admit it but this is the only book I fully enjoyed from start to finish