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A review by kn0tp0rk
Varney, the Vampyre by James Malcolm Rymer
2.0
Okay, I'm going to free myself from this book since I haven't touched it since 2017.
I finished the first volume and got a little bit into the second.
I liked it. It's wordy and the two brothers are too enamored with being gentlemen, but it's still an amusing read. There's plenty of slapstick that gave me a chuckle, and is one of the reasons I didn't want to sell off this book until I had entirely finished it, but alas. Admiral Bell and Jack Pringle are like quarreling boyfriends and it was rather amusing.
It was interesting to see what powers people imagined vampires had before the publication of Carmilla and Dracula. At times Varney seems weak compared to the characters we're more familiar with.
I definitely would have finished this if it were abridged. RIP.
I finished the first volume and got a little bit into the second.
I liked it. It's wordy and the two brothers are too enamored with being gentlemen, but it's still an amusing read. There's plenty of slapstick that gave me a chuckle, and is one of the reasons I didn't want to sell off this book until I had entirely finished it, but alas. Admiral Bell and Jack Pringle are like quarreling boyfriends and it was rather amusing.
It was interesting to see what powers people imagined vampires had before the publication of Carmilla and Dracula. At times Varney seems weak compared to the characters we're more familiar with.
I definitely would have finished this if it were abridged. RIP.