*********marathonmedic wrote: If you didn't like that, stay away from Dracula. I don't remember much about it except that much of it is correspondence and there isn't much point in reading the book if you already know that Dracula is a vampire. They spend a lot of time working up to what is painfully obvious to us today.
Stoker's novel, par for the course then, had a lot of the content in correspondence. Although I have trouble with the painfully slow pace of a lot of old stuff, I'm still interested in it. The Gothic novel took a significant stance against the Enlightenment and the Romance literature it inspired. Gothic still lives today. I've been wanting to read The Monk, perhaps one of the first Gothics.
Noir literature is essentially Gothic with the castles and dungeons transposed into the dark alleys of the city.
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