update

ooh havent blogged in a while (sorry miss beaumont)! i've read quite far into the novel now and its actually okay :) have just got to the part where they are planning to hunt down dracula.. plan to finish the rest of it within the next couple of days.. i was quite shocked that lucy was turned into a vampire as i didnt expect it to happen like that, i thought that mina would be the one to be changed into it.. i really like the way that the novel has been set out, like how its from all the main characters perspectives so that you can see what is going on from all angles and feel involved in the plot :) also i thought that mina and jonathan combining everyones diary entries etc was a very good idea (Y) i am quite suspicious of renfield though, as i think he is also a vampireeee because what other "being" would eat flies and spiders? its a bit weird to be honest.

first chapter

I read this bit on the bus :) at first I thought that the man who picked J.H up from the coach was Dracula, but now it is evident that he was not. I noticed in this chapter that there were a lot of references to 'the sublime', for example the mighty slopes of forest... lofty steeps... jagged rocks... pointed crags... snowy peaks rose grandly... mighty rifts... etc. This made the feeling more scary and intense, almost as if I was there witnessing it. It was a bit spooky when J.H describes how the coachman makes the wolves go away, as this gave the idea that he might be a vampire. Over all I think that this was a good first chapter as some back ground information was given, and little hints as to what might happen further on in the novel were suggested.

first posttt

Okay I haven't actually got a copy of the book yet, so I can't really write anything about the first four chapterssss but hopefully I will get a copy of it today.