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  All Male Review

  10.26.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Moisten your lips with some brandy for our man Renfield, all. Surely I’m not alone in mourning his untimely demise? How will we manage to get through the rest of this book without him? In a novel filled with infuriating characters and their weak motivations, Renfield was a rock, our touchstone. Yes he ate bugs, [...]

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  Dear Diary I Am Freaking Out

  10.19.09 | Permalink | 15 Comments

  So, wow this is starting to get pretty awesome, yeah? I guess going into this I was expecting it to be a kind of historically quaint little vampire tale? Dracula being creepy-ish but mainly overwrought, most of the good action either implied or happening off-screen, me going “NOT AS GOOD AS BUFFY S3″ after every [...]

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  Mejor Vampira Que Mal Acompañada

  10.12.09 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  According to the schedule, as of today we’ve read through Chapter 12, and I’ll be discussing events from that chapter, so be warned if you’ve fallen behind.
  The bulk of this section centers on Lucy, and the reactions of Mina, Dr Seward, and Van Helsing to her situation. What I want to focus on is an [...]

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  The Transylvania Twist

  10.05.09 | Permalink | 42 Comments

  So, wow, initial reaction, right off the bat: Dracula’s kind of a dick, right? Almost, dare I say, a monster?
  Yeah, I know, duh, but I was raised on a steady diet of Count Chocula. This is my first time reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula1 and its made for a delightful change to encounter such a wholly [...]

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