I read Dracula slowly over the month of October, originally as the Infinite Summer group read for Hallowe’en. Except that it didn’t work out quite like that.
The concept of Dracula is one with which very few people can be unfamiliar, and it is hard not to come to the book without a great many preconceptions. Both the pop culture it has spawned, and the off-hand lit crit which is bandied around on the subject (I have always thought that it was about syphilis.) However, ultimately, my own preconceptions were the major sticking point.
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