26-04-2023, 12:42
(26-04-2023, 03:01)spireitematt Wrote: Decided to read Bram Stoker's Dracula and finished it in a day and a half as TV was boring and got quite into the story. First 7 chapters were tough but when you got past that it was pretty easy going.
Yeah, I read Dracula when I was 17; still got my copy of it, with Bela Lugosi on the cover. To this day, I remember the bit that really hooked me and had chills running down my spine was when the ship arrives in Whitby and they find it abandoned, with the helmsman lashed to the wheel.
Been reading the Expanse books since the beginning of the year, I'm not usually a sci-fi reader but they're insanely gripping. And in non-fiction, picked David Kynaston's Austerity Britain back up after a few years on the shelf, it's a fascinating and informative journey.
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley