On a first date, when I walked into the lady’s house I noticed a Tom Wolfe novel on her coffee table. When I asked her what she thought of it she said it was “mind candy”. I’ve never forgotten that phrase.
On a first date, when I walked into the lady’s house I noticed a Tom Wolfe novel on her coffee table. When I asked her what she thought of it she said it was “mind candy”. I’ve never forgotten that phrase.
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco. Read it back in the late '80s. I had to carry a dictionary with me. Great book!
John Dunning’s Cliff Janeway series. A police detective quits the force & opens a book store. Great stuff for any book lover.
Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crichton. [spoiler] He wrote it to fool people into thinking it was based on real research.
The OP refers to Helsing ignoring the maids as donors for the transfusions.
I view this as a result of the rigid structure of Victorian social levels. The upper classes would consider it inappropriate.