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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. So much better than I thought it would be. You know what interests me about Dracula? That a vampire book written in the 1800s has a more kick-ass female character (that would be Mina Harker) than a certain popular sparkling pony princess series I could name. Sure it's denser than it needs to be, with far more words than necessary, but that was the style of the times, no? And frankly, the bit about Dracula crawling down the wall (early on in the book) somehow managed to be one of the single scariest things I've ever read. stoker is not a "good" writer to my mind . . . he exercises superfluous adjectives, sentences, and passages. He uses the epistlatory POV -- unweldy if not improbable for a horror story! I may say this only once in my life, but please do not read the book; rather, enjoy one of the many excellent films. I'm not going to add my review to the millions of previous reviews but I will say I thoroughly enjoyed it yet again. The last time I read this I was staying at an old schoolhouse (rented and now sadly converted into a hotel) at Sandsend a few miles north of Whitby, not far from Mulgrave Woods that Mina & Lucy hike to. I was going to finish the book on my last day there, which I'd planned to do from the cliff tops overlooking the harbour mouth and the final doomed course of the Demeter, near the Abbey and the graveyards (during the day of course) but the weather turned stormy and I had to complete it indoors. Genuinely terrifying. The method of using people's diaries and letters to move the plot along adds much to the atmosphere. 0.046 seconds to build listing no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 014062063X, Paperback)The vampire novel that started it all, Bram Stoker's Dracula probes deeply into human identity, sanity, and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire. When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client. Soon afterward, disturbing incidents unfold in England-an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby, strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck, and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his "Master"-culminating in a battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:57 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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I also don't see why all the stuff about Renfield needed to be in there. To me, it really slowed the story down without advancing it in any noticeable way.
All in all I'm glad I finally read Dracula, but don't see any reason why I'll ever be reading it again. (