Dracula Daily: Reading Bram Stoker's Dracula in Real Time With Commentary by the Internet

I didn't find Dracula as scary as people made me believe it would be, but it was a very enjoyable read. It had a few outdated views on foreigners, nomadic people, women and mental health (as can unfortunately be expected of a book of that time :/), but the characters and their interactions had me hooked (I am predictable). Jonathan and Mina are a modern couple (for the standard of their time) and very much in love. The care and the respect they have for each other is great. They support each other in everything, and when they can't, it eats them up. Mina's best friend has three suitors that would like to marry her, all three of which are friends. And they stay friends when she rejects two of them in favor of the third, both with each other and the third (and this makes for a delightful dynamic). One of them is a cowboy for no reason at all. For some reason, the old professor of one of them (with even more outdated views) has experience in vampire hunting and his former student knows about this (as you do). I feel like a bit of the tension has been taken out by the chronological format of Dracula Daily, because I did not feel as much tension from the narration itself, more from seeing the time pass in the emails and seeing how long (how many emails) it takes in some parts, especially the end. Still an enjoyable read, that holds up much better than some other classics that I read or tried to read.