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50 Book Challenge : nannybebette; belva's 5th		54	spacepotatoes, Today 6:35pm
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Folio Society devotees : Renewed... and very happy!		215	BorisG, Today 3:54pm
Book talk : good vampires		3	TLCrawford, Today 3:45pm
Hogwarts Express : What are you reading in November?		47	Espeon200, Today 3:13pm
Folio Society devotees : Which FS book are you reading now?		197	sandragon, Today 2:51pm
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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : flissp 2: The New Batch		265	FlossieT, Today 1:16pm
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Virago Modern Classics : What Virago Are You Reading VII		216	juliette07, Today 6:02am
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Club Read 2009 : Cariola's 2009 Reading		273	lindsacl, Yesterday 8:02pm
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Book talk : The Last Two Books you have Read		39	LynnB, Yesterday 3:12pm
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of November 7, 2009?		198	womansheart, Yesterday 12:25pm
1001 Books to read before you die : How many have you read?		265	ekebivibeke, Yesterday 12:01pm
1010 Category Challenge : deep220 1010 challenge		23	soffitta1, Yesterday 7:09am
50-Something Library Thingers : What are you reading in 2009 #2		89	lbradf, Saturday 9:45pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : BJ tries to read 75 Books in 2009, Part 2		282	billiejean, Saturday 4:26pm
What Are You Reading Now? : BBC Meme: How Many of These 100 Books Have YOU Read?		208	blink182babe, Saturday 3:51pm
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : 75 @ 52		24	cmt, Saturday 2:09pm
1001 Books to read before you die : Paruline's attempt		37	paruline, Friday 8:01pm
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999 Challenge : BJ's 999 Categories and Books		222	billiejean, Friday 12:17pm
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75 Books Challenge for 2009 : justchris 2009		232	justchris, Wednesday 10:18pm
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1010 Category Challenge : divinenanny's 1010 challenge		46	divinenanny, Wednesday 3:57am
FantasyFans : Sex in Fantasy Novels		76	danborden, Tuesday 10:59pm
Political Conservatives : That Pesky Vampire Problem, and Others		109	penguin711, Tuesday 9:49pm
Reading Globally : October Group Read - ghoulies and ghosties - recommendations		87	bfertig, Tuesday 5:49pm
Literary Snobs : Alternative to Twilight?		43	mathgirl40, Tuesday 4:22pm
50 Book Challenge : Porua		61	DirtPriest, Tuesday 2:35am
Reading Globally : nannybebette's global reads		21	nannybebette, Monday 1:33pm
Weird Fiction : What weird work are you reading now?		54	clfisha, Monday 11:43am
1001 Books to read before you die : brochettes is trying to read 1001 books before she dies- and hopes that she lives a very long life..		29	RMXtreme, Monday 7:41am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Monthly Bests		19	alcottacre, Monday 12:55am
1010 Category Challenge : Zoe's 101010		59	sjmccreary, Monday 12:49am
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Here we go again! RedBowlingBallRuth's reading challenge '09!		233	PiyushChourasia, Monday 12:07am
TBR Challenge : BJ's 2009 attack on Mount TBR		40	billiejean, November 8
Book talk : Need Children's Book Recs for a VERY Picky Reader		29	merry10, November 8
20-Something LibraryThingers : What's your favorite book in your library?		121	dancingstarfish, November 8
FantasyFans : So, what exactly IS Urban Fantasy?		35	BeckyJG, November 7
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of September 19, 2009?		251	Arten60, November 7
1001 Books to read before you die : soylentgreen23 wants to read 1001 books		46	soylentgreen23, November 7
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 31, 2009?		201	teelgee, November 7
Author Chat : Erin Pringle, author of The Floating Order (Oct 17-31)		24	CampusCoed07, November 6
1010 Category Challenge : La's 101010 Challenge		27	LA12Hernandez, November 6
50 Book Challenge : WilsonKnut's 50 book challenge 2009		17	wilsonknut, November 5
The Green Dragon : Book Quote Game		158	PaperbackPirate, November 5
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Tales of Mystery and Horror for Halloween		266	Berly, November 4
Book talk : 20 Year 1000 Book Challenge		62	LesMiserables, November 4
50 Book Challenge : aktakukac's 2009 Challenge		53	aktakukac, November 4
50 Book Challenge : Maidenvampyr's 50 book challenge		8	MaidenVampyr, November 3
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : Terri's 2nd 75 books		256	tloeffler, November 2
What Are You Reading Now? : Books Brought Home - October 2009		180	momom248, November 1
50 Book Challenge : Tracie's 50 book effort for 2009		31	TracieG, November 1
50 Book Challenge : kambrogi in 2009		189	kambrogi, October 31
1001 Books to read before you die : Soffitta1's 1001 Books- Lifetime of Reading		19	soffitta1, October 30
1001 Books to read before you die : What are you reading from the 1001 list in OCTOBER 2009?		85	soffitta1, October 30
1001 Books to read before you die : Katrina 1001 attempt		14	katrinasreads, October 29
1010 Category Challenge : 10/10/09 to 10/10/10 --- or Jan-Dec 2010?		131	crazy4reading, October 29
50 Book Challenge : nannybebette---the 4th inning		301	nannybebette, October 28
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : girlunderglass wrapped up in books (pt. IV)		120	deebee1, October 28
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : RD VII...the seventh thread of richardderus's reading		250	jdthloue, October 26
1001 Books to read before you die : Sara's 1001, with Opinions		23	Sarasamsara, October 25
Book talk : Books made into movies		107	Ape, October 25
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 17, 2009?		184	PaperbackPirate, October 24
Alphabet Challenges : nannybebette's ABCs		50	elliepotten, October 23
The Green Dragon : Halloween 2009 Readings		29	katylit, October 22
New York Review Books : Titles you'd like to see in print		31	VisibleGhost, October 21
The Green Dragon : Steamthread		52	reading_fox, October 21
50 Book Challenge : Fairywings 2009 list		14	fairywings, October 18
Book talk : Vampire books		13	d_perlo, October 16
Book talk : Classics: where to start?		19	Sandydog1, October 16
999 Challenge : bk04011 's		75	NeverStopTrying, October 16
King's Dear Constant Readers : September's SK Flavor of the Month - Different Seasons (The Body, The Breathing Method)		18	Moomin_Mama, October 15
Book talk : Books for Halloween		6	orsolina, October 13
Literary Snobs : At 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, and Beyond		38	SilverTome, October 11
Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night : My Top 5 Horror Classics for Newcomers		10	bookmonkey00k, October 10
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of October 3, 2009?		227	Mr.Durick, October 10
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : tymfos books read in 2009		241	tymfos, October 10
75 Books Challenge for 2009 : The worst books I've read in the first quarter of 2009.		133	alcottacre, October 8
Book of the month club : September books		7	tjsjohanna, October 7
Recommend Site Improvements : site-wide trivia game with ratings		29	AnnieMod, October 7
Monthly Author Reads : September: Reading Daphne Du Maurier		74	Booksloth, October 7
50 Book Challenge : Joyfulgirl's books for 2009		34	joyfulgirl, October 7
Reading Globally : Where in the world are you now? September 2009		164	twitham, October 6
What Are You Reading Now? : Your Best Reads of the Second Quarter (April - June 2009)		54	dchaikin, October 5
What Are You Reading Now? : What Are You Reading the Week of September 26, 2009?		216	jnwelch, October 3
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If you can find them The Dracula Tape, the same events as told in Stoker's Dracula but from Vlad Tepes point of view, and An Old Friend of the Family by Fred Saberhagen.

... my Thanksgiving menu). I finished Zeitoun quite a while back, but am still stewing over my thoughts; same goes for Dracula. In the meantime, here is something really good: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass I shamefully must admit this gap in my ...

Inspired by Mr. Andrew, I think I'm going to start on Dracula. Finally getting to it.

... last year after finally hunting down a copy and now you've got my adding Brother in the Land to my wishlist. I read Dracula earlier this year and then rewatched a whole series of Dracula movies, my favourite would be Shadow of a Vampire (with John Malkovich and William Defoe). I read a ...

Yes, I'm hoping to get to Dracula and then The Historian sometime this winter break/early next semester. I would not blame you in the least if you pass up Frankenstein for LotR, theaelizabet. Frankenstein is a good book, especially interesting for its adoption of Romantic ...

... four books and a rather sore shoulder from lugging them about- but on the bright side I spend less than a tenner! :) Got: Dracula - in a bright green penguin classics edition for only £2.50 in Waterstones The Greatest Knight by Elizabeth Chawick from an Oxfam bookshop The Lies of Locke La ...

... I feel like there is more I should say about this book. Books read: 38/81 = 46.914% What I'm reading next: Dracula by Bram Stoker Elephant Song by Wilbur Smith (TBC November selection)

... book. Book 27/50 = 54% completed Pages: 307 Total pages read in this year: 9,399 What I'm reading next: Dracula by Bram Stoker Elephant Song by Wilbur Smith (TBC November selection)

... on introspection of their lives. I feel like there is more I should say about this book. What I'm reading next: Dracula by Bram Stoker Elephant Song by Wilbur Smith (TBN November selection) Slowly making my way through Dracula on DailyLit. Elephant Song is a book club ...

Piyush - it was an example of positive peer pressure, haha! I heard everyone talking about Dracula and it made me want to read it again too.

I started Dracula yesterday. I'm interested in the group read of People of the Book. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Hi Angela, looks like everyone read Dracula in the last 2 months! I am glad you enjoyed it too, I can understand it would be a little frustrating to see the stereotyped women characters of that time.

Still working on my Kindle review. :) 128. Dracula - Bram Stoker I heard so many discussing this book recently that I decided to re-read it through dailylit.com. I enjoyed it. This book has a little of everything - romance, adventure, mystery and suspense. Stoker is very good at creating ...

Some interesting ideas here to check out for my Grandkids. Thanks! My suggestion is The Young Vampire Adventures. --Main character is Gustavus "Gappy" Grapple, a boy. --The third book is the longest... something like 120 pages. --Gappy is 9 in the first two books, and 10 in the 3rd book. ...

... you should be able to finish it in time! Ficus & divinenanny- Both very nice hauls! From my sister (bless her heart): Dracula & Frankenstein combo from International Collectors Library. Nice! From library sale: America America by Ethan Canin I did not even know what this book was ...

... for reading 100 books this year, I haven't been able to manage even half of that number! Glad to see you liked Dracula too and I agree about it not scary, though like you I became a fan of the Stoker's writing.

LOL Alcot, yep you saw it coming. Thanks for the site where I can rent Dracula. I think I just may do that as I feel so unsatisfied after having read the one I did. Dk_phoenix, you had the exact same reaction I did. I kept thinking that if she and he did one more looky loo moment I am going ...

>#22: yes ;) . . . . . . . . . . . . ok, it's Dracula. I was wondering is someone would guess Twilight, though. Is this the earliest example of product placement in a novel? I've already come across references to Kodak and Harrods.

103 Dracula by Bram Stoker I really liked this, found it atmospheric in an old-fashioned way. Not very scary - I find vampires too much of a stretch. Loved Stoker's prose, what a master storyteller. Highly recommended. 104 The Bodies Left Behind by Jeffery Deaver Very average thriller. ...

... Sisters by Terry Pratchett Nonfiction: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach October Fiction: Dracula by Bram Stoker Nonfiction: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach

4. I just want to Celebrate. Halloween Dracula by Bram Stocker This was a re-read for me. I had read this last year but just couldn't resist reading it for Halloween again.

Hey Trish, Thanks for the message on Dracula and the kind comments on my review. I can't imagine shortening the story up like you describe the Audio book doing. I am horribly behind in my reading and it's just getting worse. I have about three or four books I need to read for reviews ...

... to (my favorite subject) vampires. I was pleasantly surprised to find yesterday that one such story was an excerpt from Dracula which was removed from the novel and published as its own short story. The most fun part of it was that I could see exactly where in the story it would have been ...

I finished Dracula one day before Halloween, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm still reading Jane Eyre but I'm having a hard time with it. I guess I need some time to recover from the 2nd part of the book. . . Now though I am reading The Flanders Panel for the The Europe Endless Challenge. ...

My son gave me an annotated of Dracula for Christmas last year but I am putting off reading it for a while for just that reason. I read it in 2007 and it is still too fresh in my mind for a reread just yet. I think maybe I'll do it next October.

... and I was baffled as to who had done it. Perhaps when I start reading it will all spring back to my mind. I'm re-reading Dracula right now via DailyLit.com, and I'm getting impatient because I'm starting to remember what happens right before it actually does! I'm enjoying it though. My ...

... Woman in White A House to Let, Little Dorrit, The Moonstone, Far from the Madding Crowd, Great Expectations, Dracula and the list goes on and on and on…

I'm basking in time to read while waiting for my agent's verdict on my new novel. In honor of Halloween, I'm reading Dracula. I'm also really enjoying Brenda Rickman Vantrease's new historical novel, THE HERETIC'S WIFE, which will come out next spring.

In honor of Halloween, I'm reading Dracula. I'm also reading one coming out next spring: THE HERETIC'S WIFE by Brenda Rickman Vantrease - it's wonderful!

>150 - I started Dracula this morning in honor of Hallowe'en. I've never read it before and I must say THANK YOU to everyone who recommended it so highly; I would never have gotten it otherwise!

... I'm still reading Shutter Island and have about half of The House of the Seven Gables to finish. But I got through Dracula, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and The Monkey's Paw. This has been lots of fun.

... (they have some abridgements in their catalog, but those are not books they have recorded). There is an audio version of Dracula available to rent for $19.50. The website is www.recordedbooks.com.

Just wanted to stop by and say hi. But I also read your review of Dracula and now I am jealous. I just "read" an audio book of Dracula and it was abridged so I missed many of the vital moments that you mention. For example, in the audio book Harker appears to realize very quickly that the count ...

59. Dracula by Bram Stoker. I listened to this as an audio book and I was extremely disappointed to discover after I got the book home that it was an abridged version. The narrator was great but the fact that I was getting a 400 plus page condensed into just three hours left me unhappy. So yes, I ...

... and other books). I loved it, with my love for history, mystery, research and a bit of suspense. It made me want to read Dracula too, and I have also placed a book about the Dracula myth (including in The Historian) on my wishlist (From Demons to Dracula: The Creation of the Modern Vampire My ...

... Lee 161. The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories by Henry James 162. All Passion Spent by Vita Asckville-West 163. Dracula by Bram Stoker 164. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 165. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 166. Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien 167. The Books ...

Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson then Dracula by Bram Stoker 1. Horror 2.Told by a third party.

... 999 category, I thought it was time... I initially tried to read it when I was at school - I'd just finished and loved Dracula, so it was (for some reason) the next obvious choice, but I just couldn't get in to it. In retrospect, I have no idea why this was the case. This time round, I ...

Finished Dracula on Friday. Finished Get Shorty yesterday. Both were very interesting and entertaining for their own reasons.

@Mac I remembered Dracula being on of the first books in your Halloween list, which we planned to do, and the book deserves all the attention it received! @Stasia Thank you for dropping by, I would try to visit more often, new books or not :) @Carolyn When things get frustrating at work, ...

... #92 - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus - Mary Shelley - Finished October 19, 2009 I was planning to read Dracula with the Halloween group, and then my son got bit by a cat, and I couldn't read anything about biting. So, when I found Frankenstein on CD, I decided it might be ...

I bought Dracula today, one of those Barnes & Noble Classics for only $5.

... a peek then bookmarked the page and will investigate it further. Thanks for that and the Stoker news. I remember reading Dracula and thinking it quite incredible that Stoker had maintained the level of suspense and density of story for how many ever several hundred pages, before anyone has ...

Just about to finish up Dracula by Bram Stoker. Sometimes the Faulkner in him comes out. Long sentences and paragraphs, but an otherwise good read. Will start Get Shorty next.

... the worst book I've ever read. Genuinely awful on any level, but particularly disappointing if you happen to have enjoyed Dracula.

42 & 45 - Hmmm, Frankenstein I get, but Dracula? Perhaps it is the mood as much as the techno bits?

... The House of the Vampire by George Sylvester Viereck, I picked up Carmilla by Sheridan LeFanu as precursors to Dracula. I'm still getting in a few pages in of Jane Eyre too, but I find that I'm not in the mood for it yet. I guess I have to get my fill of horror before I can read ...

... to read. King on top form. Yes, King and Gordie were very similar. He said in Danse Macabre that he bounced ideas against Dracula to see what would come back when writing Salem's Lot (or words to that effect) - here it was like he was bouncing ideas off himself. Wonder how much he was ...

Dracula by Bram Stoker is a classic. Thirsty by M. T. Anderson is a YA vampire book, it's also quite good. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson is very good, though if I remember right it's a short story. I really enjoyed Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist, but it's ...

Piyush--so nice to see you back! Things Fall Apart, Man and Superman, Robinson Crusoe and Dracula are all long time favorites of mine! Glad they pleased you, too. I haven't tried Robin Hobb--I'm still a newbie to fantasy--but she looks like an author I should check out. Glad to see ...

... Looks like you enjoyed the DeFoe and the Stoker books. Robinson Crusoe was one of my first adult novels. I just read Dracula.

... = 45.679% Currently reading: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - THBC September selection Dracula by Bram Stoker - 75 Books Challenge Halloween group read

... year: 9,092 Currently reading: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers - THBC September selection Dracula by Bram Stoker - 75 Books Challenge Halloween group read

... Defoe - 4/5 38. The Tale Of The Body Thief - Anne Rice - 3/5 39. Memnoch The Devil - Anne Rice - 2/5 40. Dracula - Bram Stoker - 4/5

i want more Mcgrowl and Phantom Stallion books. i also would love to see them make Dracula into a movie again i think they could redo it and make it even better!

i want more Mcgrowl and Phantom Stallion books. i also would love to see them make Dracula into a movie again i think they could redo it and make it even better!

Kathi, I am awfully glad you liked Dracula, which I read as a teenager (usually in bed, before going to sleep and, unknown to my parents, often past midnight) and absolutely loved. I really don't think of it as a 'horror' story, just like I don't think Frankenstein falls into this category. To ...

... This book and it's sequal The Blood of the Covenant: A Novel of the Vampiric are the first oringinal vampire books since Dracula was published.

... Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. If you like horror you could start with Frankenstein by Mary Shelley or Dracula by Bram Stoker. As you can see the possibilities are endless. Start wherever you feel comfortable and most importantly enjoy yourself! Hope this was helpful. ...

... like! Here's the thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/73071#1544687 Down around message 35 we started discussing Dracula, the first book on the list.

... src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0451523377.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg"> #35 Dracula by Bram Stoker. Terrific book! Never read it before, and was surprised by a great deal – not least of all the presence of a strong woman character to beat any ...

Countess di Vira is listening to Wagner and alternating in her reading between Dracula and Mein Kampf. Verrry verry interesting!

I'm reading The Titan's Curse with my niece and Dracula for Halloween

Dracula by Bram Stoker Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe The Wood Wife by Terri Windling The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins Fear by L. Ron Hubbard Ghost by Alan Lightman Creep ...

... to tie those lessons in!). I recommend this one, especially to fans of either genre. Having already read Frankenstein, Dracula, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and something else on Blackdogbook's suggested Halloween list, I'm currently reading Creepers, The Woman in White, and Terri Windlin ...

I'm Starating with Dracula For Halloween.

... How to Paint a Dead Man by Sarah Hall. Review to come in the next issue of Belletrista (details below in #162) #35 Dracula by Bram Stoker. In progress. Great tale for an October eve! ETA: Touchstones not working on the less common works. Is that generally the case?

I finished Dracula and loved it, then read the short story The Monkey's Paw which I hadn't read since I was 8 or 9 years old. Back then I thought it was about as scary as it gets but now I see that it's a good sinister page-turner. I'm working on finishing The House of the Seven Gables.

Earlier this morning I finished Dracula by Bram Stoker. my thoughts and comments: The Count is definitely a book of another time, but that didn't stop me from enjoying it. I expected it to be creepier, but as I was yet a teenager the last time I read it, it most likely affected me ...

I finally finished Dracula for one of my "ghose & "ghoulie" reads. The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories was another. I have The Virago Book of Ghost Stories that I want to read in bits & snips and that may be all I do for "ghost and ghoulie" month. Am just not too into it this year. ...

I'll third the excitement over The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. It is one of my favorites. I'm also going to try to hit Dracula before Halloween.

... Dilemma, Terra Incognita, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment, and April and Oliver. I think I will try to read Dracula before Halloween. Kavalier and Clay is one of my favorites - I was kind of sad for it to end. This: "Hated Moby Dick" does not help me. I keep trying to get ...

9. I just want to Celebrate- Holidays Halloween 81. Frankenstein read 10-25-2009 82. Dracula read 10-29-2009 83. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde read 10-20-2009 Christmas 84. A Christmas Carol 85. The Christmas Train 86. Something about Christmas New Years 87. Easter 88. 89. ...

80. Dracula by Bram Stoker. I remember starting this book 15 or 20 years ago and putting it down as I couldn't get into it. It was just a case of a bad fit at the time. I read this for the Halloween group read and loved it. Granted, it took me about three weeks to finish it as 1. I started ...

O.K., I know I'm probably the last of the bunch but I've FINALLY finished Dracula. I liked the book, the characters and Stoker's style, so he's made a new fan. I do have a few questions/discussion points, like: *****SPOILERS****** Why wasn't Jonathan Harker ever bitten by Dracula as Mina ...

... slogging along which with all that has been happening within the family bored me to tears, literally. I am still reading Dracula as I am very much enjoying it, but just in snips now and then as the mood hits me. And I am looking forward to reading The Uncommon Reader. That quote (by the ...

At 480 pages, my copy of Dracula is a bit longer than the others. Not that the length has stopped me from re-reading it several times! 8^} More modern ones I'd add for newcomers: Odd Thomas and sequels by Dean Koontz Duma Key by Stephen King The Repairman Jack series by F. Paul ...

... in awhile. I love them. Classics Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners Summer Picture of Dorian Gray Dracula All were good reads for different reasons and all were re-reads except Picture of Dorian Gray which I found surprisingly horrible (storywise, not writingwise). E ...

I don't usually like it either, but it wasn't so bad for Dracula. That was the first time I'd tried it. Not sure I could do the whole thing at one shot, but when it's like reading an email a day, it was okay.

Read book 6 in my 1001 category and lost all of my touchstones. I read Dracula by Bram Stoker. It could also have gone in the book to screen category for sure, but my 1001 category needed some help. --BJ

I finished Dracula for October. My upcoming book is The Count of Monte Cristo, which I have discovered is super-long! The actual TBR copy that I had was abridged, so I went out and got a copy that is unabridged. Now I am not sure that I can finish it for November. --BJ

... in high-school, but this book is completely worth a revisit, as are the two original Universal pictures based on it. 2. Dracula, by Bram Stoker (1897) What can I say here, the book awesome. Fitted together as diary entries, news clippings, and letters between friends. Acting like a vampire ...

... out of here fast!~! Thanx for trying to make me feel better. And to think I read him because I was trying to put off Dracula, which I am enjoying but my copy is a mass market copy and the print is tttttiny!~! And I am finding excuses not to finish War and Peace, which I am not enjoying ...

I really enjoy her style of writing. I find it very relaxing. I finally tossed War and Peace and Dracula last night. I had been picking up everything else to read but them and I am over half way through Dracula and about 1/3 of the way through War and Peace, but I just don't want to ...

... in the Rye. I have been following the October scary reads thread (that's not exactly the right name) and remembering Dracula, House of Seven Gables, etc. I didn't feel like rereading those, so I just finished Odd Hours by Dean Koontz, which I really enjoyed. Best wishes to you and Ch ...

Hi, koalamom, I just finished it and found it quite good. I hope that you like it, too. 71. Dracula by Bram Stoker. The original dracula story (I think). I finally read it and quite enjoyed this creepy book for the fall season. The weather has turned here and it is definitely Fall now. Th ...

... life, true to life (for the times), endearing and quite brilliant!~! I don't really want to go back to War and Peace and Dracula at this point as I seem to be slogging along through, but I think I will just bite the bullet now that Banned Books Week is over and finish them. Perhaps my plate ...

... of America. I also bought Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, and a horror anthology with Frankenstien, Dracula,and Dr. Jekyell and Mr. Hyde in it. I'm all ready for Halloween.

... and good wishes were in order! I'll be thinking of you! I'm not at home right now so I can't see which edition of Dracula it is--I do remember that it has an introduction by Neil Gaiman--which is why he chose that one, I''m sure. That is one of hi favorite authors.

... came over specifically to read this--but I also enjoyed perusing your thread this afternoon in order to get here. I read Dracula last year after spending my life avoiding it and was really surprised how much I liked it. I raved about it so much to my son that for Christmas last year he gave ...

Between nesting and a long-standing academic interest in Dracula, reading the novel (with pen in hand) took me about three times as long as I expected. However, I am glad I took my time with it - it is the masterpiece I remember it to be, and has once again sparked my research-interest. I am ...

Between nesting and a long-standing academic interest in Dracula, reading the novel (with pen in hand) took me about three times as long as I expected. However, I am glad I took my time with it - it is the masterpiece I remember it to be, and has once again sparked my research-interest. I am ...

Ha! I'm still reading Dracula! But reading with a pen in hand takes me about 3x as long as just reading, so I only have my own note-taking to blame.

... me on the list!" You can always count on me to lag behind! The only reason I'm not behind now is because I had read Dracula and The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe just recently and didn't have to start with them. I finished Wood Wife and am half done with The House of Seven Gables which ...

For those out there reading Dracula: http://www.ablogabouthistory.com/2009/10/02/archaeologists-discover-the-real-count-draculas-cellar/. Click on the picture for a more detailed ...

... waaaaaaaaaay behind on and attempting to do the Halloween reads (just some of them) with that group so am half way through Dracula and it is Banned Books Week so I am cramming in as many of those as I can. I do have my book now though so whenever you are ready; just say one, two, three-------- ...

I didn't make it back to War and Peace nor Dracula because laytonwoman3rd kindly reminded us that it was "Banned Book Week" so I read Their Eyes Were Watching God and have begun The Awakening. From there I will go on to To Kill a Mockingbird and then The Catcher in the Rye, given time. ...

I finished Dracula, read a little Poe, and am now into House of Seven Gables, while also reading The Graveyard Book, which isn't on the list but seems kind of appropriate.

... Darkness 781 The Hound of the Baskervilles 789 The Turn of the Screw 790 The War of the Worlds on Mount TBR 794 Dracula

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is one of my favorites, though sad, and I liked Dracula too (in a different way)

... just call me a rebel. I am reading Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. Also War and Peace and Dracula. belva

I've stalled out on Dracula... while the ebook seemed like a great idea at the time, it's really not an appealing format for me. I don't know why... I spend enough time on my computer! Anyway, I'm pretty sure I have a copy in the attic somewhere but I have no idea where to find it, so I'm gonna ...

Okay, let's try to crawl back into our own life for a while. I have left off Dracula and War and Peace for a bit and have been indulging in some comfy, cozy reads. September was Daphne Du Maurier Author of the Month Read so: Myself When Young by Daphne du Maurier my thoughts ...

... more. Books read: 36/81 = 44.444% What I'm reading next: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Dracula by Bram Stoker

... Total pages read in this year: 8,808 What I'm reading next: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Dracula by Bram Stoker I'M HALFWAY DONE WITH MY 50 BOOK CHALLENGE!!

... Red Pony more. What I'm reading next: The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers Dracula by Bram Stoker I'm halfway through The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and I am liking it more than I expected to.

I took a day off from reading Dracula to read Tales of the Old Dutch Burying Ground as we'll be spending the day in Sleepy Hollow for a Legends Night in a couple of weeks.

... is next up and has not arrived as of yet so it looks like I am done for this month of reads. Back to War and Peace and Dracula; both group reads. I am looking forward to next month's reads with Henry James. See you then. belva

I am still in Russia with War and Peace, still in Transylvania with Dracula, have been in Cornwall and France with Myself When Young, The Loving Spirit (loved them both), and I'll Never be Young Again (1st half just so-so; 2nd half much better), and in England with The Lost Memoirs of Ja ...

Haven't read Dracula yet, but I did really like Frankenstein. 128 -I find that separating the book from whatever it is based on makes for better enjoyment of both. Take Harry Potter or even Kathy Reichs "Bones" series - the Harry moves are closer to the books than the TV series "Bones" is to ...

#122 I've read both and it's Dracula for me ALL the way!

I'm taking a similar approach. I read Dracula last year, so didn't read it this year. And I didn't manage to get The Wood Wife. I'm also reading out of order. I'm enjoying the Halloween Group as well - and one of the reasons is that it's relatively low stress. Plus, the conversation over the ...

Finished Dracula by Bram Stoker today, fantastic novel. Now I get to start Frankenstein by Mary Shelley in my effort to find out which horror novel reigns supreme! Or at least, is the best to me. I have a feeling it'll be a draw.

Bram Stoker's Dracula, the ur-text that started it all. It's an epistolary novel and is like a darker version of Pride and Prejudice

... back to the vampire theme. I read this year's ago and thought it was time to revisit, seeing as along with Bram Stocker's Dracula, which I revisted at the end of last year, it is one of the iconic "Vampire" novels, to which all others pay homage. Also have The vampire Lestat which I will ...

... Middlemarch, so I cannot wait to try it! I just discovered dailylit as well, from this forum of course, and I'm reading Dracula that way. So far, so good. I can see how some books would not work well in that format, though.

... Much Happiness in southern Ontario, hanging out in Wolf Hall in Tudor England, and am in the process of escaping from Dracula's castle in Romania.

... Frankenstein -- sounds appropriate. Her books are dark and somewhat spooky. I confess, I never read Frankenstein or Dracula. Perhaps I'll read them in October for Halloween.

... spot...? ;-P >29 Uh-oh, the Foul Book Humours have invaded Kath...that is always No Fun. >30 Finishing Dracula is worth suspending the everlasting trawl for new books.

... just going to stumble along and read what I can get to as they pop up. I started The Woman in White while waiting for Dracula, and will probably go back to it next.

29 - I'm with you. I'm visiting threads, but I'm only skimming reviews until I finally get to sit down and finish Dracula.

I finished Dracula this evening, and started off my Poe reading with The Telltale Heart.

Book #46 Dracula by Bram Stoker. Read for the Halloween group read -- a re-read for me.

I finished Dracula today (loved it!), and received The Wood Wife in the mail today, so I may skip the Poe for now and go straight into it. I've read The Woman in White and though it was good, wasn't good enough to read again with everything else piling up on my little table. We shall see ...

On the subject of annotated versions of Dracula: I read The New Annotated Dracula last October and thought it was quite fun. The annotator presents the novel as a disguised version of a true story and uses the notes to work out timelines and such. He also uses different versions of the text to " ...

28. Dracula by Bram Stoker. I'm trying to read what I can from Mac's Halloween Reading List, and this was first. I can't believe I've never read it before. I found it much more interesting than I had expected. Not much to say that hasn't been said, but I think for it's time and it's ...

... and Trick or Treat Murder which was the opposite (see my posted review for a frustrated rant). I'm continuing with Dracula, another classic that I should have read long ago. I'm squeezing in as many October reads as I can as I'll be in NYC for over a week so I'll be losing some ...

... actually has a rather violent (for its time) scene that surprised me. I won't be reading The Wood Wife. I'm behind on Dracula and from there I'll read either I Am Legend or Frankenstein. I got tickets for the Legend Night in Sleepy Hollow, NY in October. I'm very excited!

GUG, I think you might enjoy Frankenstein more than you did Dracula. It is one of my favorite books.

... finished the book. First of all, before reading The Historian one (in my opinion) must read Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Granted that The Historian is not a sequel or a prequel to that book. But without reading Dracula first, I believe that one could not fully experience The Hist ...

Reading an annotated edition of Dracula sounds like a really cool thing to do . . . maybe I should order one . . . :)

I bought the annotated version of Dracula last year but have not gotten around to reading it. I must bump it up on the Planet with a review like that!

My Dracula finally arrived in the mail, and I'm about 90 pages in. I'm really enjoying the annotations of the Norton edition, especially as they focus on the influence of film and modern culture on our perspectives on vampires.

... wrote a long review to get it off my chest. I'm almost done with Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and I've gotten to the part of Dracula where Mina seems to have taken over the narration.

Yes, I am reading Dracula with the group and I'll be following along with them on another book or two. I started The House of the Seven Gables on my own around the same time. I'm glad to have helped you out with some suggestions and thanks for checking my thread. It seems like I was on a roll ...

134 - I'd recommend trying Frankenstein, but then I haven't read Dracula yet, so I may be prejudiced. I just found, after much trepidation and procrastination, that Frankenstein was a great book and an easy read - enjoy. In case you don't know me, I am a classicphobe and while I know I'll ...

... rather than lack of enjoyment, I think)... so now my dilemma is whether to take a break from my ABC Challenge to read Dracula or Frankenstein??? Glad I've found you anyway - I have you starred!

... Aenied, Wuthering Heights, What is the what, A Palpable Elysium, {Boswell's London Journal, The Third Policeman, Dracula, A Natural History of Selborne, Herodotus Histories Os

... Aenied, Wuthering Heights, What is the what, A Palpable Elysium, {Boswell's London Journal, The Third Policeman, Dracula, A Natural History of Selborne, Herodotus Histories Os

... and Peace by Tolstoy and was surprised to see his name actually come up in the book. And I am 1/3 of the way through Dracula by Bram Stoker. As soon as I finish that one I am moving on to Outlander and series in preparation of An Echo in the Bone which should be arriving in the ...

... it some more. Next up: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro, plus I am still slowly reading Dracula.

... from the "I'll Read Yours if You Read Mine" group and will wait on another for the time being. So now I am down to Dracula for the Halloween Thread Reads and the group read of War and Peace. Once I finish Dracula, then I will grab Outlander. And I think I will be all good then. ...

... from the "I'll Read Yours if You Read Mine" group and will wait on another for the time being. So now I am down to Dracula for the Halloween Thread Reads and the group read of War and Peace. Once I finish Dracula, then I will grab Outlander. And I think I will be all good then. ...

... that I had expected to abhor. No wonder I was spellbound! I'm going to refer back to this review when I do my reread of Dracula.

... it all. He should have been in bed over an hour ago. He had SO MUCH homework tonight . . . :( I'm almost done reading Dracula for the Halloween group read, with Poe and the rest of the spook list waiting on my "priority TBR" shelf. I'd hoped to finish with Drac tonight, but probably won't ...

I am reading the Count, Dracula, as of course is everyone. I am throwing in some Poe and I am going to read The Virago Book of Ghost Stories. That ought to see me through the "ghost season". Happy ghouling everyone. belva

Book #55, Dracula by Bram Stoker My Review on the book's home page (TadAd's and Girlunderglass' reviews are also here.) Every night, as I settled in with this classic horror tale, I felt as though a dark, heavy drape was ...

Dracula by Bram Stoker My Review on the book's home page (TadAd's and Girlunderglass' reviews are also here.) Every night, as I settled in with this classic horror tale, I felt as though a dark, heavy drape was closing in ...

I am bouncing back and forth between Russia with War and Peace and Transylvania with the Count in Dracula. belva

I got my hands on a hard-copy book to finish Dracula, and also some Poe and the House of Seven Gables. The Woman in White and Fear (that touchstone hardly ever works) came in from the county library, so I'm in good shape for the Halloween read. It looks like I'm not going to get to read C ...

... Near to Baby. The 75 challenge group is hot today, as you join the ranks of girlunderglass for her review of Dracula cameling for the review of Widow for One Year cyberry for her review of The Doll People tututhefirst for her review of South of Broad

... The thought that someone could actually read and enjoy a 600 pages long book seemed incredible to him! And as for Dracula, it is one of my all time favorites. It's a truly enjoyable book and a true classic.

... (own but have not read) 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (did not finish) 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 75 Ulysses - James Joyce (did not finish) 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 78 Germinal - Emil ...

I just read great reviews of Dracula by both girlunderglass and TadAd. I think I will try to finish mine up and get it posted here and at my thread. I intend to link theirs at the same time.

... which Stoker distorts and reinvents vampire mythology to meet and/or negate certain Victorian principles). I believe Dracula is fascinating for several reasons. First and foremost, because it has come to define the modern perception of vampires, and yet in terms of Victorian/Gothic ...

... I understand they have jack o' lantern displays and read "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". I'm on the third chapter of Dracula and couldn't agree more with previous comments- why, oh, why would Harker go to the Castle after the peasants beg him not to? And why is he so calm after the Count ...

Brilliant review Eliza! I started reading Dracula a year or two ago and evidently wasn't as much in the mood for it as I thought, as I stopped reading half way through (not something I do often, on principle). I think perhaps now that I have a better sense of the style, a second reading might ...

... War and Peace and trying to catch up with the group read. I am now into the 3rd Book or Part. I am also reading Dracula as part of the Halloween reading group list and then will move onto Poe, but that may be all I do of their list as I do not wish to buy more books right now unless ...

... waaaaaaaaaaaaaay light years out in space (what space, I do not know) with The Player of the Games; in Transylvania with Dracula; in Cranford with Cranford and in King David's court in Psalms. So I am at the moment all over the place.

I've received two Bookmooches this week- Dracula and Poirot loses a client by Agatha Christie.

What a tremendous review, Eliza. I really need to read Dracula at some point in time along with Frankenstein.

I wish I hadn't read beyond the first couple of sentences of your review, then I wouldn't be so tempted to read Dracula again. Great review!

Great comments on Dracula...now I must read it. I'm embarrassed to say that I never have!

... Halloween group read: 54. Dracula by Bram Stoker (I'm between ★★★1/2 and ★★★★) Tags: 1890s, Ireland, fiction, horror, Gothic If we're going to thoroughly analyze this, we have to ...

Great review of Dracula. I gave it a higher rating when I read it a couple of years ago because I thought I was going to hate it and was delightfully surprised how much I enjoyed it. In fact I raved about it so much, my son who had wanted me to read it gave me the annotated version for Christmas ...

Whoa!!! I finished Dracula yesterday. I have a lot to say, and I'll be working on a review. But I want to wait until a few more of you are finished before I post it here or on my thread. TadAd, You found the middle wearisome. My wife found the last half of the book rushed. And I liked ...

You can count me in. I began Dracula today and read the first chapter. I am only reading the ones on the list that I have. I may try some online reading but I much prefer to hold the book in my tight little hands. Anyhooooo, I have all of Poe's works and am deeply embedded in at least 3 ...

You can count me in. I began Dracula today and read the first chapter. I am only reading the ones on the list that I have. I may try some online reading but I much prefer to hold the book in my tight little hands. Anyhooooo, I have all of Poe's works and am deeply embedded in at least 3 other ...

Good review, I read Dracula earlier in the year and while I really enjoyed reading this from a classic POV, I got a little annoyed with how Mina went from strong and capable to weak and overlooked.

Me too. I'm also juggling The House of the Seven Gables, Dracula, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde and Trick or Treat Murder. I've had to start my October reading early because I'll be away from home for much of the month.

I finished Dracula. I found the middle a trifle wearisome but enjoyed the rest. My comments here.

I'm through nine chapters of Dracula. One thing I'll say, Stoker didn't waste time getting into the thick of things! There was plenty of creepy stuff right from the first chapter. Great atmosphere, too, as others have noted.

... to dig out my Poe book and do a little rereading for Halloween, even though I read it earlier in the year. As far as Dracula goes, I've just finished the Harker's journal section, and am starting in on Mina's letter... Chapter 5, I think.

For anyone interested, members of The 75 Book Challenge group is currently doing a group read of Dracula and The Stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Other books to follow may include Shutter Island, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The House of the Seven Gables and The Ghost.

>63, You're welcome! I also found this link, Planet Ebook, which has Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Island of Doctor Moreau in ebook form, to download for free! They also have lots of other classics.

... I have not been reading much, but I'm hoping to finish it tomorrow. It's great though, so far. Plus, I'm reading both Dracula and The Island of Doctor Moreau for the Hallowe'en thread, and I never read more than one book at once, so it is proving to be a bit of a challenge. Next up for ...

... my reads have taken me in September, 2009: Russia: War and Peace Florida, U.S.A.: Strawberry Girl Transylvania: Dracula Outer Space: The Player of the Games France: Carmilla: a Vampyre Tale England: Cranford; which I have set aside for the moment. King David's Court: ...

#60 I'm agreeing with you, Mac. It IS fun to discover a read like this later in life. I never had a desire to read Dracula before, and I can't believe how anxious I am to settle down with it each day! Thanks for dragging me in! I can always count on you for an adventure! I was thinking about ...

... Screw and Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde last year for Halloween. I enjoyed both of them. I'm loving the discussion on Dracula--I also read that one recently. I now have an annotated edition and if I finish the other books I'm planning for October I'll pull it out and give it a go. That ...

I have Dracula, House of the Seven Gables and The Woman in White in my TBR. And The Strange Case of Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde and Frankenstein, for that matter. I'm going to try to get to some of them in the next few weeks. And I might add The Turn of the Screw into the mix, as well. ...

I'm starting Dracula today. I'm still reading The House of the Seven Gables, which I'm on Chapter 5, I think. Also, I'm on Chapter 2 of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Still on the first chapter of The Island of Dr. Moreau.

I should be finished with Dracula by next week some time. I've just read the first three chapters, but so far I am loving it; I had no idea it was told in diary form, which is one of my favourite narrative forms. I was struck by the opposition of West and East - Harker refers to the locals as "b ...

I will be picking up Dracula today - I had to finish an "I'll Read Yours if You Read Mine" challenge before I jumped into our Halloween reading. I'm excited to get started! I haven't read Dracula in years. Er, scratch that. I decided that I really want to read an annotated version, and ...

I haven't started yet -- still finishing The Little Stranger, and once that's done, I'll start Dracula, which is a re-read for me. I have Ghost on its way from an Amazon book seller, and Fear and The Woman in White coming from the County Library. ETA touchstones are not cooperating ...

Hi BJ! I read Dracula in college and loved it. After a bit of a rough beginning, I could not put it down. As it's been so very long since then, I plan on rereading it this winter.

>119 & 120, I will probably read it sometime after finishing Dracula, which I just started for the Halloween Group Read. Countess Bathory is believed to be one of the inspirations for Dracula, along with the "real" Dracula, Vlad Drakul.

... off the 1001 lists lately, mostly because I have been working my way through the Booker Prize Longlist, but I just started Dracula and The Island of Doctor Moreau.

... Inside the box were 5 splendid books: The Rosetta Stone -- looks wonderful; the binding is a lovely feeling vellum Dracula -- absolutely gorgeous; the black binding and blood red endpapers are perfect; can't wait to read this one A Passage to India -- nothing spectacular but a very ...

Barbara Hambly's Renfield is quite good. It's a faithful retelling of Dracula from Renfield's point of view. While it's perfectly possible to read on its own, make sure you read Dracula first to get the full effect.

#115 - Well, some of us like Dracula just fine!

Everybody needs some fluff every now and then (although I personally would hardly consider Dracula as fluff)! I've been meaning to read Dracula for quite some time now. Maybe I should join the Halloween challenge, and finally do it.

I just finished Anna Karenina and started Dracula. --BJ

... it sound so offhand and casual, finishing Anna Karenina! Congratulations! And I look forward to seeing what you think of Dracula. Hope you're fully recovered now from the Big Bad Dentist.

I read the first chapter of Dracula earlier this evening off DailyLit (Thanks Cait!). The last part of his journey to Dracula's castle sounds like it would be very frightening to actually live through.

... though it was in the middle of the book) was Abraham's Boys -- as in Abraham Van Helsing . . . and now it's time to read Dracula for the Halloween group read. Perfeft timing!

One of the themes of Dracula is rationality/science/technology vs tradition and the paranormal. This is one of those places where the conflict comes out. Harker's a modern man who doesn't believe in all that stuff, so he doesn't take it seriously. One of the things about the book that I never ...

92. Dracula, Bram Stoker

I read Dracula back in April and was going to read Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone for my 999 challenge so really should keep to that, would also like to read The Strain. I'll add a Darren Shan to the mix - Procession of the Dead.

... and enjoyed watching the hunt for the killer. I am still working on Grave Goods for the HRBG. And I am going to start Dracula for the Halloween read here on the 75 Book Challenge. And I started Adjunct: An Undigest by Peter Manson for the 1001 list. That one will take a while even ...

Over in the 75 Books Challenge group, we're going a group read of the following for October: Dracula by Bram Stoker Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe The Wood Wife by Terri Windling The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells ...

I am definately in for a couple of the reads. Mainly Dracula and The Woman in White. I have had both sitting around for a while now. About time I read them. I am really looking forward to the Wilkie Collins book.

... can read The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde. I'm sure I'll be behind everyone on Dracula as I don't even have it yet, but I'll try to catch up.

... so I'll list that as our fourth read for the list. Hopefully you'll read a few of the others with us! billiejean, Dracula's not short, so we'll be reading it for a few days I'm sure. Still taking suggestions on where the remainder of the books fall in order!

I'm sending for a copy of Dracula and I've read my volumes of Poe many times. I've started The House of the Seven Gables and I'm really enjoying it. Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown is one of my favorite short stories. Thanks, Cait86, for the dailylit.com info- I had never heard of ...

Okay guys, Looks like we have our third book picked out....Wood Wife will be after Dracula and the Poe collection to accomodate a request by MM1. Started Dracula last night, just the first chapter. Now I know where the tradition of stupid victims comes from in our modern horror movie. ...

... by Elizabeth Kostova. Let's hope that this one turns out to be better than the last one. I'm hopeful though as Dracula is one of my all time favorite books.

... reading - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle - The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas - Dracula, Bram Stoker

I'm in! Can't promise I'll do them all, but I will try at least some of them, def Dracula and I will try to find Ghost, as I loved Lightman's Einstein's Dreams... one of my all time faves! I read Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe earlier this year, so that's one down. I'll be interested to ...

... House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne (purchased) 3. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling (ordering this week) 4. Dracula by Bram Stoker (annotated edition—I own; I read another edition last year, so I'm saving this to last in case I don't have time for all I've chosen) Other ...

How about some classics such as Dracula or Anne Rice?

I'm in for Dracula, Poe, and The Island of Dr. Moreau - all free through Daily Lit!

Okay, Looks like we have a quorum for starting with Dracula first and moving on to Poe. Though, it looks like the doc may be starting on Poe. I'm pretty sure he finished up a re-read of Dracula not long ago. So, we'll have to catch up with him. I personally will be starting now!! Glad ...

... twice: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen Candide by Voltaire Dracula by Bram Stoker The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Howard's End by EM Forster

... good, but it's the first part of a trilogy whereas Shutter Island is stand-alone. I'm cool with starting on Poe or Dracula first. My preference is Poe since haven't read any for a while, but either will do nicely.

I "third" reading Dracula first. I should go start my Amazon list now...

Okay, so far we have a request from Miss Glass to read either Dracula or the complete Poe first, any dissent? That's fine with me. Luxx and mstrust, As for I Am Legend, it won't make the list this year for me because I've already read it. And it is quite different than the movie, better I ...

... It's pretty good, but I liked Les Miserables a lot better. The rest I have read as well. I think the best one is Dracula, purely from a storytelling standpoint. Frankenstein is a decent read as well for a horror/scifi novel. For Halloween this year I am reading House of Leaves, ...

... them. The Importance of being Earnest, the Color Purple, Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye, Going Solo, Dracula, 1984, The Jungle Book, Catch-22, Slaughterhouse 5, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, To Kill a Mockingbird, and A Christmas Carol are the ones we have. ...

... early. There are no rules here. Read 'em all with us. Read a couple. Read 'em out of order. Just read 'em. 1. Dracula by Bram Stoker 2. Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe 3. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling 4. The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne 5 ...

... - Just 'cuz. I recently acquired the book and it looks intriguing (even though I can't exactly recall what it's about). -Dracula by Bram Stoker - It'll be Halloween relatively soon and what better way to get into the mood than by reading the original vampire story! If it's alright with ...

... The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories by Henry James 162. All Passion Spent by Vita Asckville-West 163. Dracula by Bram Stoker 164. A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf 165. The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald 166. Without My Cloak by Kate O'Brien ...

... could record the clicks somewhere and folks could "best" that - instant Meme. :) You could do Gone with the Wind to Dracula in 3 steps.. Follow Scarlett from Gone with the Wind to Scarlett which takes place in Ireland, just like The Escape from Home which also takes place in Lond ...

... Fitzgerald C. Carmilla: A Vampyre Tale by Sheridan Le Fanu for "I'll Read Yours if You Read Mine" challenge D. Dracula by Bram Stoker for "Ghost and Goulies" E. Ellie Pride by Annie Groves F. For One Sweet Grape by Kate O'Brien G. Goodnight Sweetheart by Annie G ...

... in the post. I am excited but am dreading this soooooo much. If you look at my library you will find one vampire book, Dracula, simply because it is a classic, (and I've not even read it yet), and absolutely no scifi unless you count the Fforde's I am reading now, Harry Potter or ...

... and am still trying to catch up on War and Peace. Mostly war on the part that I am reading now. I am going to check out Dracula to see how much time to allot for that for my October read. I might start it in September so that I can finish for Halloween. This will be my first Halloween ...

... to be, and they certainly aren't defining characteristics of it - merely popular modern interpretations. faerie tale, dracula, frankenstein, the paradise war infinity concerto are all urban fantasy in my book, some were written before the genre gained that name though. Perhaps you' ...

Oh I don't know there are just so many of them! Bram Stoker's Dracula, Douglas Adams's The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The Rivals, Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, my list could just go on and on.

... and The Pussycat, The Jumblies, all of the Nonsense Alphabets, and especially the Nonsense Botany. I am planning to read Dracula for October. I cannot really believe that I have never read this classic. --BJ

... in the suspense category. It looks pretty scary, so I probably won't read it at night. Also, I am still planning to read Dracula for Halloween. Thanks so much for stopping by, Steph! I wonder what tomorrow will bring at the U. S. Open? --BJ

... usually the weekend before the meeting. Recent titles included: Perfume by Susskind High Fidelity by Hornby Dracula by Stoker The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald For full details sign up to our blog and mailing list at http://moviebookchats.postero ...

... American Pastoral by Philip Roth (MaryZorro's Pulitzer Challenge) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (RGG Side Read) Dracula by Bram Stoker (RGG Side Read) The Far Pavillions by M.M. Kaye (RGG Side Read) Zorro by Isabel Allende (RGG Side Read) I'm not going to read The Second Vir ...

... Henry James Daisy Miller, The Ambassadors and What Maisey Knew. Let's not forget the good old gory classics too like Dracula!

... Potter as a Boarding School Story (a la Tom Brown’s Schooldays) and as a Gothic romance (a la Wuthering Heights and Dracula). That’s as far as I got the first night I had the book and I went to bed thinking what fun that was but I didn’t really learn anything I hadn’t already ...

... Ballet Shoes, History of the English Church and People, and Impossible Journeys. For my free gift I am taking Dracula (so highly recommended by group members that I simply had to have it), The Rosetta Stone(one I have been eyeing for several years) and A Passage to India (the ...

... Potter as a Boarding School Story (a la Tom Brown’s Schooldays) and as a Gothic romance (a la Wuthering Heights and Dracula). That’s as far as I got the first night I had the book and I went to bed thinking what fun that was but I didn’t really learn anything I hadn’t already ...

I have read 4 Folio Books being a relative newcomer. Dracula Kidnapped Catriona A Memoir of The Forty-Five and another 21 books so far this year making 25 in total. I hope to have read 50 by year end. My full list of 2009 reads are here from post 13 http://www.librarything.com/to ...

... Vampire Novels 1. Blood is the new black by Valerie Stivers 2. Bloodsucking Fiends by Christpher Moore 3. Dracula by Dram Stoker 4. Happy Hour at Casa Dracula by Marta Acosta 5. Dark Legend by Christine Feehan 6. Dark Guardian by Christine Feehan 7. Dar ...

... by Pierre Delattre, The Lottery, The Haunting of Hill House, We Have Always Lived in a Castle by Shirley Jackson, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Pluto, Animal Lover by Laren Stover, The Monk by Matthew Lewis, Don Quixote: A Novel by Kathy Acker, Just After Sunset by S ...

... college with me...long story short..i think my Mom sold them..along with a lot of other stuff of mine..now, i know i have Dracula left....and The Trial & The Castle....oh well, not bad, after all this time.

Transylvania is a province, so Romania is easy for the vampire buff. Stoker's Dracula is the classic, but a large part of The historian by Elizabeth Kostova, on the same theme, is also set here. Wales grand son is of course Dylan Thomas. I enjoyed his Portrait of the artist as ...

... renewal offer but was declined). I think I will wait for the Prospectus to arrive before I decide. I'm leaning toward Dracula as one of my free choices, since it has been recommended so highly. Any other suggestions?

Some recent fun ones for me: The Strain is an update of Dracula set in modern-day New York. It's got vampires and hunters, government conspiracy...It's cheesy B-horror movie in a well-done book. Here, There Be Dragons is the first in a trilogy with allusions to great literature all over ...

I've earmarked The Silver Branch and Dracula (which I've never read) as definites and The Remains of the Day and Schindler's Ark as possibles, depending on what appears in the new prospectus.

... the Wind Anthologies 1. Inked 2. Strange Brew 3. Unbound Classics 1. Pride and Prejudice 2. Dracula 3. Oliver Twist 1001 Books 1. Blond: A Novel 2. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink 3. The Bell Jar 4. Solaris Children's Classics 1. The ...

>11 The connection to terrorism from the Anarchist movement in the latter 19th century didn't occur to me when I read Dracula--only later after reading Barbara Tuchman's The Proud Tower and then Conrad's The Secret Agent. As Lloydville pointed out, the novel is not a tract but Stoker ...

... cause Foucault's Pendulum Travels with Herodotus The Host *The Meaning of Night Across the Endless River Dracula On the Beach Oryx and Crake Motel of the Mysteries Three Cups of Tea

... by Lauren Weisberger 6.Everyone Worth Knowing by Lauren Weisberger 7.The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 8.Dracula by Bram Stoker 9.Twilight by Stephenie Meyer 10.New Moon by Stephenie Meyer 11.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer 12.Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer 13.City ...

... of one of Frazer's fertility gods.) Until I can get back and review my copy, I don't want to say more, but I think Dracula is an enormously rich work with many subtexts under the straightforward shocker.

... since I saw it, but my recollecction is that the silent film "Nosfaratu" was pretty true to the book. As I was reading Dracula for the first time just about two months ago, I found that the vague memories of the film made the suspense all the more intense. As I read, I couldn't remember ...

... not an evaluation of the Folio edition regarding bindings, illustrations etc), I would like to kick off by discussing Dracula by Bram Stoker I really did enjoy this novel. I am a sucker for 19th century novels anyway so I reckoned on a feast to the eyes. Many authors employ 'gaps' ...

Having finished my first Folio edition; Dracula by Bram Stoker, I might make one or two observations. 1) Folio books are renowned for their illustrations. Nevertheless, from now on I will view them only as I read. One can completely give the game away by browsing ahead of the plot. 2) Folio ...

Book 21 of 2009 Book 76 in total 76/1000 Dracula by Bram Stoker Wonderful Gothic Erotic 19th century Mayhem

... But you see the genre with your own interpretations. I clearly see Vampire as almost not Fantasy. I don't even regard Dracula as Fantasy since I see that as Gothic, Victorian, Classic. But still, do you have access to books from 30 years ago that are Fantasy? Can you put in context ...

... 789. The Turn of the Screw Great and short 790. The War of the Worlds 792. What Maisie Knew Very good 794. Dracula Like Frankenstein not as great as I thought it'd be 797. The Time Machine 801. The Yellow Wallpaper Great - her other stories are worth checking out too 804 ...

... one you must be a Nazi, if you protest his bankrupting the country you are a kook.Open your eyes America you invited Dracula in and now he has free reign. I am now reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. It holds up well.

Having got off on this tangent because of a mention of Dracula this thread can give us the chance to explore whether sex has a place in fantasy, if it is more prevalent now then it was 25 years ago, if it is well written, or even needful to the plot of what is being written now. I think that ...

Dracula was apparently not a play first, but Stoker did work at a theater. The article referenced by BigJoel is great for after the fact type of literary commentary that often occurs. It is filled with academic vocabulary so you have to read it carefully. But that does not replace your own read ...

If we go back to Bram Stoker and Dracula do we find SEX so prevalent? There is an attraction implied and certainly the ladies he has already converted to his wives are sexually appealing, but Lucy and Mina I don't see as women you are going to read about being jumped. I think that the rise ...

I'm reading Dracula

Dracula is a masterpiece where horror is distilled with subtility. I read it in paperback many, many years ago. It should be a feast to sip it in its FS edition.

... is not a Folio book, but it gave me the opportunity to finally open my first Folio which I had promised myself would be Dracula. I started last night and it was quite pleasurable to open my first volume and read a chapter before sleep overcame me, but tonight devoured several more ...

... Blond next to Birds of Prey, vol. 1 of Like Minds Black Canary is a blond, you know. Somehow Doom, Dr. Faustus, and Dracula seem to belong together. There doesn't seem to be a touchstone for the Doom I want, a collection of a comics miniseries about Dr. Doom.

... city exterminator are off hunting down the Master who's brought the infection into the city. The Strain owes a lot to Dracula but is still a refreshing take on the whole vampire thing, especially in light of the trend to super-humanize the monster these days. The disaster response seemed ...

... is a creepy and weird story about Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. Renfield is Barbara Hambly's retelling of Dracula from Renfield's point of view. That should get you started! 8^}

... ideas for books that are slightly creepy. I was thinking along the lines of : The Historian The Thirteenth Tale Dracula Can anyone think of some other good choices? Thanks so much.

77. Dracula by Bram Stoker Absolutely Intoxicating. Full Review: I started this in highschool, and put it down not far into it. Looking back, I have to think that I either didn't have the patience, or just wasn't quite old enough to appreciate it. More than a decade after that false ...

... recommend it. Meanwhile, this brings me to the end of my recording from my week at the beach! For now, I'm back to Dracula....

... g 52. Homer and Langley by E.E. Doctorow 53. City of Refuge by Tom Piazza 54. the Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence 55. Dracula by Bram Stoker 56. Beg, Borrow, Steal: The Life of a Writer by Michael Greenberg 57. The Wood Wife by Terri Windling 58. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G ...

... England and the new power of doctors and "mind doctors" of various sorts. By all rights, I should love this book. Re Dracula, I honestly just found it boring. I think that the story is just so well-known and done and redone at this point that the original has lost its allure for me. I ...

... given up on two books that I just wasn't enjoying: Stephen Prothero's Religious Literacy and Bram Stoker's Dracula, both of which I have previously complained about. Next up, I need to tackle a couple of ER books: Road to Damascus and My Father's Paradise, the latter of ...

... to the Center of the Earth Little Women Treasure Island Huckleberry Finn The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Dracula Many of my favorite books are in this group, Jane Eyre, the Austens, Madame Bovary. My least favorites out of the group now are probably the Poe stories. When ...

... think of is The Evening Land, which only fits the criteria of what you're looking for by being epistolary. (No, okay, and Dracula. That has journal entries.) I know Emma Bull (War of the Oaks recommendation) has also written an epistolary novel with Steven Brust called Freedom and Necessity ...

... what I buy, but on what I actually read) and if they're mad at me because for the most part I read incredibly cheap stuff (Dracula for free, complete works of the Brontes for 99 cents). There are lots of reasons to disapprove of Kindles. But my Kindle makes reading physically easier for me, ...

Since we read Danse Macabre I have read Rosemary's Baby and Dracula. I have bought Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but haven't opened it yet. I really want to read a bunch of the other books. Ghost Story and I Am Legend at the forefront. He also really made me want to read Something Wicked T ...

... Shakespeare Read this one for English Adv, what more can you say about it? It's Shakespeare, of course it was good. 9. Dracula Read this one for English Ext, another good, classic read.

... it's more on a subconscious level and a greater influence than I realize. I have a few older editions of Frankenstein and Dracula that I could never get into and I think part of it was the typeface. Also...I agree that layout in non-fiction can make a HUGE difference. Gladwell did this well in ...

... and Sam that goes on, and probably other slow material, no question about it). Liked The Sparrow, not the sequel, loved Dracula (great gothic fun), etc. I just finished a YA title, Marcelo in the Real World by Francisco Stork, about a high functioning teen with something like Asberger' ...

... Still good but I found the sequel Children of God clearly an afterthought propelled by the popularity of Sparrow. Dracula-Loved it. Hooked in high school. That's saying something. The Pearl-I had to read it in high school and burst out with spontaneous laughter @ the ending. I ...

I really enjoyed Dracula when I read it several years ago... but I was surprised at how 'the original' was so very, ,very unlike anything popular culture has done with it.

I'm about 60% of the way through Dracula. First 100 pages= Fantastic, Second 100 pages= Drudgery, Third 100 pages= Promising. Hope the last 150 pages pays off!

Dracula.

91. Dracula by Bram Stoker The well-known horror story of vampires, blood-sucking and horror-filled moments, this classic does not fail. Well ...

... books can I make a reference to, and expect to be understood, in the general populace. Very few, if I am to judge. Dracula and Frankenstein are books I wouldn't expect many to have read, but they would be recognized, and the plot known to some degree. From childhood most everybody ...

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Book 40 - Dracula by Bram Stoker I'm rather torn about this book. On one hand I like the mood, action (when it's there) and the story itself. That being said there was a lot of the book I didn't like. It's written as journal/diary entries or letters. That's all well and good but it puts ...

... society's seeking of voyeuristic dysfunctional reality. I am intrigued by the book Carmilla - I am presently reading Dracula and enjoying it, so I think I will love the Fanu book. Thanks.

... connection to psychic powers. This isn't entirely out of place for a King story. Barlow of 'Salem's Lot was just Dracula in New England after all. Somehow, I don't think it worked that well in this case.

There's nothing much better than the version of Dracula with Frank Langella. He made vampires sexy! I have a B-list vampire movie with Jude Law in my Netflix Instant queue and will be watching it soon. Urania, Kosteva went to my alma mater, the University of Michigan, for her MFA. I ...

... ago, but I never got into it. And I have never read the Hunchback of Notre Dame, but Frankenstein is pretty good, and Dracula was great! You picked a good set of classics to read!

... I'm going to take a break from series to get through three classics that I've had on my shelf for a while: Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

... 11. Abramo's Gift (April) 12. Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer (June) 13. 2 B R O 2 B (June) 14. Dracula (June)

Heh heh... I maybe should have said something about what I've already read. Dracula is still one of my absolute faves and it also led to me reading and enjoying The Historian. Some people have mixed feelings on the latter, but I really enjoyed it. Also, was wonderfully entertained by Bloodsu ...

... right, I believe Melissa Marr might have a vampire book or a plot involving vampires. And who could forget the classic: Dracula?

... thirsty intelligent animals that needed putting down. His other book Armor was a SciFi and MUCH better book IMHO. Dracula is a requirement for vampire readers. I also have all the vampire novels that take place in the WoD (World of Darkness) so if you want any suggestions out of ...

Hi all! First post for me-love this site. What a treasure! So let's see...just finished a re-read of Bram Stoker's Dracula and last night started The Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. I was up LATE with it & so far, it's great! I am looking forward to finding a ton of new great reads from ...

Forgot to mention the referencing of Dracula, not just by SK but by the characters themselves. It was a nice touch and quite a clever way out of some of the problems that could have arisen. Matt Burke refers to himself as sounding like Van Helsing - while boning up on old vampire lore, as Van Hels ...

Wake by Lisa McMann - good YA title; looking forward to reading the sequel Fade Dracula by Bram Stoker - great gothic fun Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman - good historical novel set mainly in 13th century Wales Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres - the standout, ...

Silas Marner The Tin Drum The Time Machine Wuthering Heights Treasure Island Dracula Breakfast at Tiffany's The Invisable Man Tender is the Night Siddartha

... Tipi ate the mosquito. Mosquitoes drink blood. Vampires drink blood. Tipi ate a mosquito filled with Kerian's blood. See Dracula for the next line of reasoning, because it's icky. Ergo, Tipi is a vampire.

... k 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 70Moby Dick - Herman Melville 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 80 Possession - AS Byatt. 83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker 86 ...

I have to admit I have a soft spot for FFC's Dracula, mostly because I saw it at or near the height of my fascination with Gary Oldman as an actor. I think bits and pieces of it are intriguing, even brilliant, but agree that turning it into a tragic love story was a mistake. (There's a ...

... bargain together for 10 bucks The Wizard of Oz and The Land of Oz, old and charming paperbacks for 5 bucks together Dracula by Bram Stoker for 2 bucks and others unpacked from the backpack at home. My daughter found a Hercule Poirot we'd never heard of called There is a Tide, ...

... I also think it's too bad he leaves out Carmilla (by Sheridan Le Fanu, Stoker's paisano) in the literary genealogy of Dracula. It's a fine novella which Stoker drew on pretty heavily for his own work.

The Hardy boys books, Dracula by Bram Stoker To Kill a mockingbird to name a few.

... "http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/56/09/5609b9992dee229593571305341434d414f4541.jpg"> So much more entertaining than Dracula. I read both of these nearly two weeks ago. I meant to write more, but....

#63. Sounds like a rather strange book and not really my jug of grog. I think I'll opt for Dracula, or watch some reruns of Buffy.

... margin-right:10px;" src="http://www.librarything.com/picsizes/3f/76/ebd9ea27ad01d37bb3b2f371bfc93b87.jpg"> 14. Dracula, by Bram Stoker I read this one for my book group, and am very glad of it. This is what a book group is for, methinks, to make one read books one wouldn't ...

#130 Is that a reread of Dracula or a first time read? I've been reading heaps of vampire & werewolf books as part of my 999 challenge. I find it quite fascinating how each writer reinvents vampire folklore. I've also watched too many Dracula//Noseratu films of late. #131 Thanks for your ...

... - right up until the end, which, as beeg and dk_phoenix say, was a bit of a disappointment. But then I am a big Dracula fan (hmmm, I should reread that). Anyway, give it a go! Suslyn, it's interesting to see other people's book numbers, but as you're clearly reading soooooooo

... now and you have some great reading this year. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was a favortie from a couple of years back. Dracula is on for Halloween reading this year!!

... you: The war of the worlds, The island of Dr. Moreau, The invisible man, and The time machine by HG Wells; Dracula*; War with the newts; The little prince**; The glass bead game; Titus groan and Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake; Nineteen-eighty four**; I, Robo ...

... of Monte-Cristo 17. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 18. Doctor Faustus 19. Don Quixote 2o. Dracula 21. Frankenstein 22. Gilgamesh 23. Gone With the Wind 24. The Great Gatsby 25. Gulliver’s Travels 26. Hamlet 27. The Handmaid’s Tale 28. T ...

... movie Nosferatu made in 1922 instead of Nosferatu from 1979 which stars Klaus Kinski. I wanted to watch this after reading Dracula recently. Please no more Lost talk - I've only watched season 1 and prefer to catch up eventually by dvd.

... recommend it to anyone unless they like stuff about Dracula, Romanian history or older horror novels like Frankenstein or Dracula.

I've just read Dracula for the first time for the same reasons as you really - to go back to the 'original' and see how it all started as I've been reading quite a lot of vampire lit lately and find the different writers' approaches to vampiric lore quite interesting. I was especially taken with E ...

#76 - It's from the Norton edition, edited by Gillespie. Very good edition. Dracula seems to cater to a specific taste. I like it, but I have no problem admitting that I enjoy Carmilla far more.

#73 Thanks for the quote from Wilde, puts a very enjoyable book in a new light. I also must admit to disliking Dracula maybe I should try Carmilla it sounds slightly more interesting.

Just finished Dracula by Bram Stoker, melodramatic but good fun, and Samurai Legend by Furuyama and Jiro Taniguchi, a well-drawn graphic novel with a clunky storyline. Just started Wake by Lisa McMann, a YA tltle about a girl who finds herself participating in other people's dreams, ...

#8 Luxx, totally agree on the praise for Carmilla. I actually found it better than Dracula, which I thought had too many rather dull stretches. I thought it worth mentioning that between Polidori and Carmilla, there was Varney the Vampyre, a serialized novel. (One of the "Penny Dreadfuls," ...

... read it again. (Keep in mind that I don't usually like horror stories. However, Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson and Dracula by Bram Stoker are 2 other exceptions to that rule.)

28) The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker was rather a disappointment. Dracula I found excellent and compulsive reading; this was more of Conan-Doyle meets Rider-Haggard and just didn't do the business for me. There was a nice little basis in a different strand of folklore but too much of ...

I'm reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. Surprisingly enjoyable. Composed of journal entries, letters, and the like, from different characters' points of view.

From Bram Stoker's Dracula, Jonathan Harker's Journal: There lay the Count; but looking as if his youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ...

I'm trying to read Dracula and everything by Jane Austen , but college finals are interfering in that. Life as We Knew It is pretty brilliant. I read it a few months back and it drew me in so completely I kept expecting to look up at the sky and see an abnormally large moon. The sequel ...

Interesting perspective on Dracula bk0411; I had never thought to compare the Count to the real people who swallow you whole if you let them. Apt comparison. Recently read and enjoyed Uncle Silas, so will have a look for Carmilla as well.

I have to read Dracula this summer for a class I'm taking next year (not that I don't want to--I do!), so I'm in as well :) Meanwhile, if you're looking for a spooky wonderful book, I recently discovered The Sound of Building Coffins by Louis Maistros; I haven't quite finished it yet ...

... A Language History of the World and The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. I'm also dipping into Bram Stoker's Dracula, which - thank God - I got for free from Project Gutenberg, because it is so unbelievably tedious. Fortunately, I also have Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla on ...

315 - maybe you could include me in the Dracula read?

... I read it last December and I really enjoyed it too. I haven't read anything else by Byatt yet but will. I also just read Dracula for my Bloodlust category, I thought I should read a classic to counter all the other vampire fare I've been reading lately and I agree with you about Mina, in fact ...

... Vampire Classics - The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, edited with Foreward and Notes by Leslie S. Klinger - Dracula by Bram Stoker, Penguin Classics I found The Annotated Dracula handsome and well worth browsing for the annotations and illustrations. That's the good ...

... to read the posts. I have been trying to catch up on my reading but I am not having any luck with that either. I have Dracula on my list of books to read hopefully this year but no garauntees. I too am getting ready for Senior Prom, Post Prom party and then Graduation and a party. ...

... in life and a fascinating family in Lisbon. Just got The Cruelest Month, the next Gamache, and my daughter gave me Dracula.

Went to the Friends' booksale on Saturday and picked up a copy of Frankenstein and also Dracula and will eventually read them to see if what this thread has been saying about them is true.

... . Chesterton's Orthodoxy is about "self improvement", or perhaps reading it was meant to have that result. Dracula has been tagged with "violin". I'm stumped. Treasure Island is an "encyclopedia". So is the Bible. Oh, and Matilda is, or contains, "advi ...

Dracula

Book sale over - for me. Got a few Grishams and Francises and Frankenstein, Dracula and Emma and a copy of Lord Jim to broaden by reading. Also picked up some M.H. Clark that I had missed along the line and a few others, but since I already put them away, they are indistinguishable from ...

I hope you are enjoying Frankenstein! I think you need some humour while reading it. Personally I prefer Dracula by Bram Stoker but that might just be because of the vampires. :)

... . http://www.librarything.com/tag/Sorta+Fairytale Fred Saberhagen has a few books about the continuing adventures of Dracula that I remember enjoying once upon a time. Once on a Time is one I haven't read in a long time, but I remember enjoying. By A.A. Milne, but geared for an ...

... women * 22- Through the looking glass 23- Ben-Hur 24- The adventures of Huckeberry Finn 25- Germinal 26- Dracula 27- The garden party * 28- The emigrants * 29- Trainspotting 30- Timbuktu * 31- The immoralist * 32- The trial 33- Brave new world 34- The ...

I just finished a reread of Dracula (which I hadn't read since high school) and The Historian (which I read, too quickly, when it came out). I enjoyed both immensely. The things I remembered disliking about Dracula in high school (length, epistolary style) didn't bother me this time around- ...

... ey The Silver Kiss Pride and Prejudice Wuthering Heights Private memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Dracula Jane Eyre I'm sure I could go on... AUTHORS This one is really hard. Wilde Brontes (not Anne) Austen Shakespeare Robert Browning Chaucer Hugo ...

... here from the 999 challenge. Like #195 dchaikin, I also enjoyed Shadow of the wind. I've been on holiday and flew through Dracula, possibly helped by recent viewings of a few Dracula movies and that I could read for longer periods. Kate Camp discusses the novel on this link http://www.radio ...

... A Language History of the World and The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen. I'm also dipping into Bram Stoker's Dracula, which - thank God - I got for free from Project Gutenberg, because it is so unbelievably tedious. Fortunately, I also have Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's Carmilla on ...

... src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3619/3467622058_f3a5f3c2e3_o.jpg" width="140" height="220" alt="dracula" /> 59) Dracula by Bram Stoker A classic gothic adventure story that is thoroughly entertaining and not for the fainthearted. avatiakh in 100 Books Challenge for 2009 : avatiakh aims for 100+ in 2009 (Apr 19, 2009, 6:19am)

... World War 2. Recommended reading. 58) The View from Saturday by EL Konigsburg - very good children's book 59) Dracula by Bram Stoker A classic gothic adventure story that is thoroughly entertaining and not for the fainthearted. 60) The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCull ...

... while Jesuit priest Daniel is investigating the miracles performed by a nun during World War 2. Recommended reading. Dracula by Bram Stoker A classic gothic adventure story that is thoroughly entertaining and not for the fainthearted. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers ...

To Kill a Mockingbird is on our curriculum for freshman, The Crucible for juniors. As much as Dracula sounds like a good idea, it is one that probably would take a really long time to do right. I found this out with Huckleberry Finn. I love the book, but after 12 weeks I was tired of it.

... are following Percy Jackson Or make a connection to your Twilight fans by reading the original vampire story Dracula How "classic" does the work need to be? There are so many really good modern books.

... andwagon. With a bit of luck there'll be a few spinoff memes - books with ghouls, vampires and werewolves. You know, like dracula or wicked or maybe a whole new genre of fiction with undead / magic interacting with the 'normal' world. They could call it Urban Fantasy, and maybe it would get ...

... fraid) 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville 71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Pla ...

... I'mm not really much into vampires, infact I deliberately avoided them all my life until a couple of years ago when i read Dracula and loved it! Since the I've read a couple of others--they were okay but not ass good a Bram Stoker!

Sorry Carmilla was a disappointment. Personally, I thought it was a lot more readable than Stoker's Dracula, which really bogs down at times. But Carmilla, a novella. was first published in a magazine. It shows.

To fit in with the creepy Dracula mode: 48. Unwind by Neal Shusterman (335 pages) A creepy YA book, set in the future. Abortion has been banned after a war between the pro-life and pro-choice groups. Instead, at 13, a child can be unwound, or cut up into pieces that are given to others, ...

>22: Nope, I love Dracula but can see your point. It needs a good edit, there is just too much discussion in the middle. Why do we need to know, in depth, how all of their various notes and letters were collated and prepared and handed out, etc? Slows down the pace no end. Plus the ending, seems ...

#113 I loved Dracula when I read it in high school. It may have been that I was home sick with the flu right after it was assigned and I had nothing else around to read, but I fell right into the story. I keep meaning to reread it but I think I'm afraid I won't like it as much.

47. Dracula by Bram Stoker (359 pages) I had never read the book. It's quite good, much better than those Twilight books! The story is more of a psychological thriller, although the frequent discussion of blood towards the end of the book did turn my stomach a bit.

... but she couldn't tell a story at all. if this book is a testament to Jane Austen, then Twilight is a testament to Dracula, and i just can't believe that.

My 10 Favorite: 1. Outlander series - Diana Gabaldon 2. Anthem - Ayn Rand 3. Dracula - Bram Stoker 4. The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom 5. Abhorsen trilogy - Garth Nix 6. The DaVinci Code - Dan Brown 7. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 8. One Flew Over the ...

... by Richard Matheson Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by R. L. Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker It turns out that I have several on this list. I am reading The Stand for a group read, but I will not finish for a long time. I think that I ...

Thanks for this review of Carmilla - having read Dracula a couple of years ago and enjoyed it much more than I expected, I think Carmilla would be worth reading as well.

Reading Dracula in the mornings and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the evenings.

... of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 91 Heart ...

... Wonderland and Catcher in the Rye, I mean you. Among the ones I never finished are Nineteen Eighty-Four, Emma and Dracula. They're all standing by for a second try though! Thanks Richard, nice thread!

... Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White 88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven ...

27. Carmilla by Joseoph Sheridan LeFanu Before Bram Stoker's Dracula there was LeFanu's monstrous Carmilla/Mircalla/Millarca, a beautiful female vampire whose victims were all young women. A curiosity without the literary quality or psychological impact of Stoker's later work.

... ding 69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie *70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville *71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 72 Dracula - Bram Stoker *73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 75 Ulysses - James Joyce 76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plat ...

... the know. *For those unfamiliar with the book, Carmilla is a gothic vampire tale credited with being the forerunner of Dracula. After this reading, I definitely prefer Carmilla for the writing and a key plot difference: female vampires. I remember the epistolary style of Dracula being a ...

OK Urania, thansk for those suggestions - I will try to look them up. Sorry about Wodehouse, a writer I've never been able to get into. What should I be reading?

... is a message in there somewhere! LOL! So, my other choices are MR James' Collected Ghost Stories, Frankenstein, or Dracula. I also have Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which might count. I am planning to start The Stand any day now, but won't finish any time soon. I am pretty excited ...

It came before Dracula: 1872. I had never heard of LeFanu before, but he is supposedly "the father of the modern ghost story." Stoker borrowed a lot of what we now consider classic elements of vampire stories from this short novella. I never found Dracula to be a very engaging read, so I'm ...

Deborah - I haven't heard of Carmilla before - did it come before or after Stoker's Dracula? Is it any good?

... language learners and their constant worries, yes:) So I think I restrain myself from rereading M.R. James, Lovecraft or Dracula now. Books about zombies are also waving vehemently from my bookshelves (Monster Planet, World War Z, etc) and children's books, from the Goosebumps series... De ...

... DuPrau Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass The Prophet of Yonwood by Jeanne DuPrau Dracula by Bram Stoker Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary by Rosalind Fergusson I took an extended break from reading at the beginning of ...

... read (the other being Half-Broken Things. Sandra Brown and James Patterson are almost always good for a good thriller. Dracula was great as well-I love vampire books. I didn't enjoy The Strange Death of Napolean Bonaparte at all really-it had a great premise, but didn't follow through, ...

I will be starting Dracula tomorrow, the annotated version with lots of side notes and illustrations. It looks to be fun. This is my second time around on Dracula. I read it the first time more than 30 years ago. I could only read it in daylight, and on public transportation at that. It will ...

... 16. Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe by Anthony Summers 17. Cross Country by James Patterson 18. Dracula by Bram Stoker 19. The Female of the Species by Joyce Carol Oates 20. The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie 21. The Night Following ...

... J. Fox 37. City of Thieves by David Benioff 38. Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin 39. Night Shift by Stephen King 40. Dracula by Bram Stoker 41. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 42. Cujo by Stephen King 43. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregor ...

... two of my mum's books, Carrie and The Amityville Horror. Gave both a read at about 7. Then I found abridged versions of Dracula and Frankenstein in school. A couple of kids in my class at school (primary school, no less) used to watch "video nasties" and tell us all about them, which ...

Wow, SuLa, that's such a classical introduction to the genre. Straight to the seminal stuff. Most kids would find Dracula and Frankenstein extremely daunting. Dracula, especially, is difficult to read because of the accents. And Frankenstein is full of so much philosophy...

I have a very sad story to share regarding Dracula. A few years ago, I found a first edition of Dracula for sale in an antique store for $100. I didn't have $100 to spend on a book at the time. I returned with the cash in hand a week or so later and much to my disappointment it was gone. Two ...

... the character pages, because now the system no longer has a good way of compensating for name changes - like Mina Harker (Dracula) and Wilhelmina Murray (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen) are the same character, but there's no way to link those two together unless you add a duplicate entry ...

*shivers* Oh, dear. ... Someone dropped a potion on the touchstones! It has caused the Penguin Classic Name book to chose a name. The only question is, which pregnant HEer is the mother of the baby that the name is intended for? Anyone up for naming their child Dracula?

I haven't read Book of Names but I have read The Penguin Classic Name Book. (Which stouchstones as Bram Stoker's Dracula. Huh.)

... Fiends, Christopher Moore 30. American Gods, Neil Gaiman 31. You Suck, Christopher Moore 32. Dracula, Bram Stoker (reread) *audiobook 33. The Historian, Elizabeth Kostova (re-read) 34. To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer 35. Possessio ...

... Jungle – Upton Sinclair 35. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad 1800's 36. The Awakening – Kate Chopin 37. Dracula – Bram Stoker 38. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde 39. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson 40. The Adventures ...

Dracula is creepy on such a subtle level. I really enjoyed it, though.

Oh write about Dracula and I'll respond. I think the intertextuality argument is spot on although my thoughts go in other directions - e.g., Carolyn Merchant's work on The Death of Nature. I like to pair it up with Hawthorne's "Rappaccini's Daughter" - a masterpiece of a short story. I ...

So, Dracula and The Signifying Monkey. First off, I'll say that participating in this particular exercise was probably the beginning of the end of my academic career. This pairing seemed so very arbitrary that I started to wonder about just how arbitrary literary academia was as a whole. You ...

>152, The Signifying Monkey and Dracula are not works I would immediately link. Did you have to read Dracula using Gates? If so, I want to know how you did it. I've been twisting my brain into Gordian knots trying to figure this one out. I think I may have a trauma.

>139 timjones - Actually, I liked Stoker's Dracula the first time around. But as with almost anything that is reread, picked apart and dissected for 6 months, by the time I took my master's test I really did not like it.

Am I the only person in Club Read 2009 who likes Bram Stoker's Dracula? (Answers on a postcard marked Poste Restante, Transylvania, please.)

>130 Ahh, Dracula. For my master's degree, we had to do what was called "the two-book." Each year, a group of professors would choose two books - one literary, one theoretical - and there would be a written essay test on the two books. The year I took it the books were Dracula by Bram Stoker ...

Also struggling through Bram Stoker's Dracula, which is unbelievably dull. It strikes me as so odd that such a tedious book contains a story that is such a cultural touchstone. I downloaded this from Project Gutenberg for my Kindle. I think now that it is so much more convenient for me to ...

12. Dracula by Bram Stoker The only reason I read this was because a friend really, really wanted me to. I enjoyed some of it, but for the most part I was reading outside of my comfort zone. I can see why many people like it, but it just wasn't for me.

... - Gave it 4 1/2 3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - 4 stars 4. Spandau Phoenix by Greg Iles - 2 stars 5. Dracula by Bram Stoker - 5 stars Kirconnell in 50 Book Challenge : Kirconnell 2009 (Feb 22, 2009, 9:45pm)

... try with Sookie Stackhouse and I was very pleasantly surprised. I like a little paranormal adventure sometimes ( I loved Dracula), but I was afraid that this series might be too much like the currently popular authors in this genre. Sookie is a telepathic waitress living in Bon Temps, Louisia ...

Oh, don't stop on my account. Dracula's great! And the mood may strike me to reread it again anyway...8^} As far as order, I'll follow your lead.

... to it a bunch. We'll have to coordinate an order as the witching hour approaches. Doc, one primary reason I included Dracula was your reviews and thoughts on the book from last year. Piyush, nice review of the play.

... let myself watch any Pride and Prejudice films until after I had read the book! I have finished the first third of Dracula and hope to finish it this week. When I sit down to read it, it goes by rather quickly, but I haven't had much time for it lately.

Mac - I'm in for most of the Halloween reads...Dracula is probably the only one I'd skip since I read it last year.

Hi Mac, Count me in for atleast the following three titles: The Island of Dr. Moreau Dracula The House of Seven Gables

#55 I plan on keeping it up, I'm far enough in that I'm intrigued now. I haven't read Dracula though, and am wondering whether that's going to be a problem. I've just started Temeraire which I bought yesterday having eyed up the series for a while on account of the fabulous covers. I'm only ...

#55 I plan on keeping it up, I'm far enough in that I'm intrigued now. I haven't read Dracula though, and am wondering whether that's going to be a problem. I've just started Temeraire which I bought yesterday having eyed up the series for a while on account of the fabulous covers. I'm only ...

I finished listening to Dracula by Bram Stoker and have begun listening to Herzog by Saul Bellow. The reader's voice is horrid, but I will try to get past it.

#17 - Dracula by Bram Stoker - ****

... I teach 7th grade. I have read other works by Marcus Sedgwick but not the one on your list; I do like this author. Read Dracula when working on my masters in a course taught by Leslie Fiedler. I should re-read that one. And The Witches of Eastwick is another book in my collection that I'm ...

I am in England tracking Dracula by Bram Stoker and also in Senegal learning about the origin of Tribal Scars by Ousmane Sembene.

... drop that one. The response has always been unanimous: "No!" Chateau d'Argol also reminds me of what Bram Stoker's Dracula could have been had Stoker been a better stylist. In fact, Werner Herzog's film Nosferatu realizes Stoker's novel better than Stoker does. If ...

Good luck with your reading challenge, TracieG! I am hoping to read Dracula this year. Are you enjoying it? --BJ

... Tomasi di Lampedusa, and I'm about to start reading O, Pioneer by Willa Cather, and I continue listening to Dracula by Bram Stoker.

... in the Sacramento, CA area. I am looking forward to seeing what everyone else is reading also. Right now I am reading Dracula by Bram Stoker. This will be #5. Before this, and so far for 2009, I have read: Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Twightlight series) Breaking Dawn by Stephe ...

Well, I am indulging in the chocolate covered pretzels my Valentine gave me, and continuing to listen to Dracula by Bram Stoker, and continuing to read The Leopard for an LT group read.

... for reading at night (except Anna Karenina, maybe, but I'm saving her for March) - I get freaked out by books like Dracula at night - so am taking some time out with another 1001 read, What I Loved. Maybe it's just my tiredness at the end of a long week, but nothing went in last night. ...

I continue reading The Leopard and I am listening to Dracula by Bram Stoker.

I would love to help out as well, but I am in the dark recesses of Transylvania with Count Dracula.

I continue with The Leopard and have also started listening to Dracula by Bram Stoker.

OOOh Dracula, for some reason I have read that twice... Once before a college course, then again in the college course. Since we had to analyze it in the college course it was less fun. And we were downgraded if we did not interpret the book the way the professor did. I think though that ...

For some reason I'm feeling very loved right now. ;) Thought of another one- Dracula. It seems like a classic I shouldn't miss.

... to an audiobook of this and really enjoyed it. Will hopefully get to Rupert of Hentzau soon. I've also been reading Dracula as one of my colleagues/friends really wanted me to read it. I have been pleasantly surprised, as I hate anything dealing with horror. It's not very scary (so far) ...

Ooops, sorry, didn't mean to mislead you. Renfield's not a sequel. It's a retelling of Dracula from Renfield's point of view. It' s quite good, but for best effect, the reader should be familiar with Stoker's original.

I've read Dracula But I haven't read Anne of Green Gables

I've read Eat Pray Love but haven't read Bram Stoker's Dracula--even though it's been on my bookshelf for years..

Hi Kiwidoc - I had to get a copy of Kate's Klassics after listening to podcasts of her talking about books with Kim Hill. Dracula, Mrs Dalloway & The Prime of Miss Brodie are all on my 999 challenge because she made them sound so interesting. The mp3s of some of her talks are available on ...

... Irving 93. Tropic of Capricorn Henry Miller and the 1800's 94. The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells 95. Dracula Bram Stoker 96. The Island of Dr. Moreau H.G. Wells 97. The Time Machine H.G. Wells 98. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Arthur Conan Doy ...

A friend of mine really, really wants me to read Dracula, so I am going to give it a try. I think he is crazy for wanting me to read it, but maybe I will actually like it after all...

... be better to Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses and The Road (2009 release) are both movies. Bram Stoker's Dracula has been adapted numerous times. Beowulf (makes one vomit, really) some Italian guy did the Canterbury Tales: there is much nudity, but it is all in the ...

... n The only books I've read before are the Harry Potters and the Tolkien's. A few I've recently read "out of order": Dracula by Stoker The Belgariad and the Mallorean by Eddings There are also several that I've read in the last couple of years that I have no desire to re-read like Lit ...

... Larklight and The Magic Thief are kids' books and the only ones coming to mind, but there are a lot. Also books like Dracula, which is all letters etc...

... hell...but at least they are not puling teens (sorry TWILIGHT fans)...for Classic Vamps....Carmilla is truly odd....and Dracula???? love that dapper, bloodsucking Count...no? ;-p

Dracula is one of my challenge books. I read a few vampire books but am not really a fan, thought it was time to give Dracula a go.

Hola Englishrose & Ivyd I read Dracula too when I was younger and enjoyed it a lot more than Twilight. I also read most of the Anne Rice vampire books and liked those more too. My taste in reading has changed a lot in the last 10 years. I used to also read a lot of horror novels and scifi/fan ...

... a pretty good book, but not really to my taste, either, although I do see how it might appeal to teenagers. I also loved Dracula as a teenager, and read several Anne Rice books a few years ago, but didn't finish the series. I doubt that I'll read any more of the Twilight books, either.

... been tempted by Twilight yet. I don't find vampires very appealing nowadays. Although as a teen I read Bram Stoker's Dracula and loved it.

... of Baskervilles 17. The Awakening 18. Turn of the Screw 19. War of the Worlds 20. The Invisible Man 21. Dracula 22. The Island of Dr. Moreau 23. The Time Machine 24. The Yellow Wallpaper 25. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 26. The Picture of Dorian Gray 27. ...

Okay so am still reading Bram Stoker's Dracula from last year's list. I have been spending my summer holidays shopping and sleeping too much! Here are the books that are on my to read list for this year: * The journal of Dora Damage by Belinda Starling * The tales of Beedle the Bard ...

Meghan, The Woman in White is an amazing book, read it in 2008 and plan to read The Moonstone and Dracula this year.

I'm almost done with Dracula. SOOOOOO GOOOD! I will say that over and over again. I LOVE DRACULA!

#92 Although I understand what you mean, and although I agree that Dracula went way further than all the previous novels in vampire fiction, I think vampires were already quite well-known characters in literature even before Dracula was written. Have you read Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu ? I ...

... just in time to be read! It's had mixed reviews from the bookringers but I'm really enjoying it. The nighttime one is Dracula, and, unlike The Castle of Otranto and Vathek, is a gothic novel that is actually creepy. The other two were just funny. > 5: Hey, jubby, what did you mean ...

... tasy 6.1 At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft 6.2 The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett - finished April 6.3 Dracula, by Bram Stoker - finished June (eBook) I liked the idea of "gothic fiction", which I saw on other posts. I am not very familiar with the fantasy genre. I am ...

In no particular order: Dracula Maus Sofia Petrovna Anne of Avonlea The Invention of Hugo Cabret

... a little tame remember that Jack the Ripper went on his killing spree in 1888. The book is written much as Stoker wrote Dracula with the characters telling the story through letters, diary entries, newspaper articles, etc. An interesting, quick read that left me with a group of books for ...

From reading the back it's "a spirited update" of Dracula I loved that so we'll see if Ms Kostova's writing floats my boat.

You've just reminded me once again to stick Dracula on my TBR list :-)

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's biography and Dracula is well, about Dracula (the vampires and the vampire slayers) =)

... activities in a way that would influence Bram Stoker in his more famous work. Carmilla is a less expansive work than Dracula, but I rather liked something about its greater intimacy. Extra Credit If I had it to do over again, I'd probably have changed around my principle eight and ...

Okay! I will pick up The Bell Jar and Dracula on Saturday, my library day XD Ohmigosh, you have to wear a cast? That must be terrible!

And I'm going to read it once I'm done with Dracula and The Bell Jar It seems interesting. And let me tell you, I'D LOVE TO DRIVE A PORCHE TOO!

... It is so sad, but she writes wonderfully. I understand why it is called a "haunting" classic. And I am almost finished with Dracula. YOU GIRLS NEED TO READ IT! IT IS SO GOOD!

From Audible: Tree of Smoke by Denis Johnson Dracula by Bram Stoker

93F.) Dracula by Bram Stoker Hmmmm. A great, fast-paced first half, followed by a hundred pages of tedium, with an edge-of-the-seat close. No need to explicate the plot, it is a part of our modern fairy tales. I thought it would be better. At the same time, it is really funny how pop ...

Dracula, maybe?

... to my amazon wish list for Christmas. If you like Victorian novels (and I most assuredly do!) like Woman in White or Dracula it looks like this will right up your alley--

... Shorty by Elmore Leonard 4. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 5. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 6. Dracula by Bram Stoker. 7. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. 8. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy. 9. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

43. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry 44. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry 45. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 46. Dracula by Bram Stoker Thespian in Great Reads for Teens : Your Dream Fictional Character Love (Dec 16, 2008, 8:07pm)

Oh! I thought you were talking about Dracula or something. Well in that case, yeah! I understand why it's in that area. I want to read that book now!

... read', if anyone does come along that has read Arrow of God, I'd be interested to hear if it is worth getting. I've read Dracula But I've never read The Eyre Affair Picolina, the book is so much better than any Dracula movie, as most movies about Dracula are pretty comedic. Or, it ...

... 3. Alias Grace 4. Oliver Twist 5. The Old Man and the Sea (Read) 6. Invisible Man 7. Frankenstein (Read) 8. Dracula (Read) 9. Get Shorty (Read) 10. Dangerous Liasons (Read) 11. The Count of Monte Cristo 12. Brideshead Revisited (Read) Now, I just need to choose the ...

... Pretty Little Mistakes. Is that close enough? It really sucked. That should count forsomething. But I've never read Dracula. Yes indeed. I hang my head in shame.

Wow! Such a good response. Thanks so much. I am going to go with Don Quixote for fiction and follow it up with Dracula and Robinson Crusoe. For my architecture read its a toss up still between The Death and Life of Great American Cities and The City in History so I will mull ...

7. Classics 1. Little Women 2. Animal Farm 3. Great Expectations 4. Doctor Zhivago 5. Dracula 6. A Midsummer Night's Dream 7. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 8. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 9. To Kill A Mockingbird

I do agree with tim and tomcat: Dracula and/or Robinson Crusoe. You cannot go wrong with either one. For architecture, I will nudge The City in History, which I have not read completely, but which I enjoyed. The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius, a classic, should be very ...

I'll repeat my nudge from someone else's topic for Dracula: don't be put off by years of lame movies, read the original. I found Don Quixote a struggle, but it's worth perservering with. And, while I've never read "The Ends of the Earth", I am sure I would enjoy it. Living closer to the Antar ...

... Near Death of a Great American City, Jed Horne Pile Three: Fiction Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson Dracula, Bram Stoker Shirley, Charlotte Bronte Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe Gods Behaving Badly, Marie Philli ...

I wonder if we - I mean Jonathan and I - shall ever see them together. Dracula by Stoker

... nudges Beloved, 8 positive nudges Beowulf, 5 positive nudges Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 6 positive nudges Dracula, 3 positive nudges Siddhartha, 3 positive nudges, one negative nudge for a total of 2 The winner is 84, Charing Cross Road with Beloved in a strong second ...

#31. Dracula by Bram Stoker Again with the vampire theme. I first read this when I was 12 years old on a school camp in the bush. Of course I really freaked myself out! So I am now revisiting it. It will be interesting to see if it is as scary now as it was 16 years ago. Probably. I ...

... not familiar with The Historian. I'll have to check it out and let you know what I thought of it. I own Bram Stoker's Dracula and of course Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and The New Vampires and some other books on Vampires I haven't gotten around to reading before. Plus of ...

... not familiar with The Historian. I'll have to check it out and let you know what I thought of it. I own Bram Stoker's Dracula and of course Anne Rice's The Vampire Chronicles and The New Vampires and some other books on Vampires I haven't gotten around to reading before. Plus of ...

... original list and 1 from my alternate list). I don't yet know what I will read next, either Alias Grace, Beloved, or Dracula. All three of these books are from my alternate list. Two of them, Beloved and Dracula, are listed in my Book Nudgers pile, so if one of those "wins" then ...

... for years--I will be watching to see if you give me a nudge! I am not a vampire person--or reader--but last year I read Dracula because I had so many people urging me to read The Historian and I wanted to read the "original" first. I loved Stoker; unfortunate Kostova seemed a little "flat" ...

Classics 1. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 2. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 3. Dracula by Bram Stoker 4. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 5. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott 6. The Italian by Ann Radcliffe 7. 8. 9.

... my library I decided to buy a copy and managed to find one at my local bookstore for only $6 - bargain! I've decided to add Dracula to my Gothic Fiction list to fill the 9th spot. I've had my eye on The Annotated Dracula for a few weeks, so I might use this as an excuse to buy it.

... by Marcus Sedgwick finished 14Mar 5. Silver Wolf by Alice Borchardt finished 19Apr 6. Dracula by Bram Stoker 07Apr 7. The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice finished 22Apr 8. Hiding from the Light by Barbara Erskine ...

... Horror - forteana. The Bad Seed - murder, thriller, psychopathy. The Collector - psychological, obsession. Dracula - gothic, horror, vampires. The Exorcist - horror, possession. Geek Love - circus, freaks. Happy Like Murderers - serial killers, true crime, Fred & Rose We ...

A supernudge for Dracula as well, magnificent book! I would also add a few mininudges for 84, Charing Cross Road, I Know Why the Cage Bird Sings, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, and Sarum.

The book group I'm in read Dracula a couple of years ago and I was amazed how, even after all the movie adaptations and parodies, it still managed to be genuinely unsettling and scary. Well orth reading - a definite nudge. It's been many years since I read Ivanhoe, but I loved it when I did ...

... It's got a freshness and creativity which turns to stodge in the later cash cow follow ups. Now, I never have yet read Dracula and I really should.

... ixies 9. Ivanhoe 10. The Three Musketeers 11. Beloved 12. Beowulf 13. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 14. Dracula 15. Siddhartha Well, that is my list. Sorry for lack of photo. However, I tend toward fuzzy photos anyway. I have to finish my 888 Challenge first, but ...

96. The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, edited by Leslie Klinger Dracula's not a new story for me - or for nearly anyone - but The New Annotated Dracula was a refreshing look at this old story. Leslie Klinger's slight "editorial conceit" is that Dracula is based on actual ...

... which you recommended in a comment on my profile. Really looking forward to reading that soon. You spoke about Dracula. My inciteful review of that is: piffle! - TT

... doesn't it? Well, not really. 'Salem's Lot has a lot more in common with Invasion of the Body Snatchers than it does Dracula. Floating Dragon - Peter Straub's horror tour-de-force. I think maybe he was a little too ambitious with this novel of the supernatural destruction of Hampste ...

... Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. 3. Vampires, Werewolves & Zombies: 13 bullets by David Wellington, Dracula by Bram Stoker, Cell by Stephen King, Infected by Scott Sigler and I am Legend by Richard Matheson. 4. Into The Wild, Lost & Marooned: Bac ...

I really enjoyed Dracula and second Musicmom41's recommendation of Wilkie Collins' Woman in White. I read The Historian a while ago now so I'm a bit hazy on the details but I remembering loving parts of it but struggling through all the historical information. I remember it being quite a ...

... it would give me that Sixth Sense-like feeling of 'Aha!' Pluse the Marsten house makes for a neat stand in for Dracula's creepy old castle, standing above the town and I'm sure that was also in SK's mind.

I may save this for my Halloween reading next year with Dracula!!!!

dancingstarfish You have to enjoy the 19th century "over the top' style of writing to really enjoy Dracula imo. If you like Wilkie Collins, especially Woman in White then try it.

... they put it down and forgot to go back to it, so maybe some people are captivated by it and some aren't. I've never read Dracula though, after this thread I'm still debating on whether I should try!

Interesting. I love Dracula and I love The Historian. But I would never think of them in the same light. They're not even remotely written to be anything alike. In fact, the only connection I feel they share is the character Dracula! I don't think Kostova even tried to make connections ...

I will be the dissenting voice in this love fest! I made the mistake of reading the original Dracula before reading The Historian because i had never read a vampire novel and decided I should read "the original." (I know it's not the first--but it is the best known.) I was blown away by Sto ...

... who are no longer what they seem. In a way, it is more closely related to Invasion of the Body Snatchers than it is to Dracula. The fear behind 'Salem's Lot seems to be that the Government has invaded everybody."

... in terms of degradation of their main characters. Having said that, I have read a number of the classics and enjoyed them (Dracula, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Frankenstein), and have read a rather embarrassingly large number of the new genre of "supernatural romance" (think hot sexy vampires ...

... usually don't read "horror" I read a lot of 19th century literature so this one was right up my alley. I also really liked Dracula--which I didn't expect because I had always avoided vampires.

... Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon and The Book Thief by Markus Zusak And of the classics, personally I'd go with Dracula, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

Classics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Today: A beautifully illustrated edition of Dracula from the Folio Society

... In the case of Jekyll & Hyde it is the two forces at war within the individual--and which one will "win?" In Dracula it is basically good, although "flawed" because they are human, people fighting "pure evil.'' Dracula has no redeeming characteristics. One of my problems with ...

>31. I read Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and when I finished I said, "That's it?" I was really underwhelmed, I haven't read Dracula yet but it's on the TBR pile so I'll get to it eventually and see what I think.

Dracula by Bram Stoker Was much better then any movie. Was so caught up in the story I read it straight through. If I had known the story was this good I'd have read it sooner.

... didn't enjoy it--but it's not to everyone's taste. I love Victorian literature and I love classic "good vs evil" tales and Dracula fits that bill--at least for me.

I readDracula within the last twelve months and thought it was weak! I recycled it! - TT

drneutron After avoiding vampire novels all my life I finally read Dracula last year and loved it! Give us the details (publisher, etc) so we can find the annotated edition--I may do a reread this year. I'd also like to read Gaiman's intro.

39) Dracula by Bram Stoker It took me far too long to get through this, but I'm glad to say I finally read it. The beginning moved pretty slow for me, but it started to pick up near the end. A good book to read during October (and I finished on Halloween.. good timing).

I remember reading Dracula again in the 90s and thinking how erotic one of the scenes was and how I missed it in prior readings. There's so much much to that novel when put in the context of the time.

I'm five chapters into Dracula. It's fantastic so far! Like other annotated volumes (especially the Holmes ones I've read), the editor indulges in a "deightful little conceit" by pretending that the book is Stoker's fictionalization of events that actually happened. So some of the notes point out ...

... 46: Frankenstein is one of my favorite books! I hope you both end up enjoying it. In a similar vein, I've been reading Dracula all day, and I'm enjoying myself so far. I'm not sure why I've never read it before, but I like the format of the book, and I've already felt myself get tense and a ...

I should be finishing Anna Karenina sometime today, and starting Dracula. My goal was to be reading Dracula by Halloween, so I'm just the tiniest bit behind. I have the whole afternoon to do nothing but read, though.

I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wordsworth's Classic, excellent introduction to Stoker and his work.

That's Dracula and it certainly is fitting, today of all days! (I'll be back with a quote in a while but I have a feeling I owe one somewhere else as well at the moment.)

I made some interesting observations between Andrea Dworkin's commentary on Dracula in her collection Intercourse and how this could be reinterpreted to Twilight; but the rest of the series that I did read (I didn't care to finish it) was very much light hearted fluff. Not that there's ...

I made some interesting observations between Andrea Dworkin's commentary on Dracula in her collection Intercourse and how this could be reinterpreted to Twilight; but the rest of the series that I did read (I didn't care to finish it) was very much light hearted fluff. Not that there's ...

... The Vampire Chronicles as well as New Tales of the Vampires for my books on Vampires. Of course I should also include Dracula by Bram Stoker too. What list of Vampire books would be complete without Dracula? Beatles1964

What do you think about Dracula? It is in my TBR. I also see that lots of people have read the Stephanie Meyer books, including my daughter, so I might also add that to my TBR. --BJ

Still, still, still working my way through Anna Karenina. My goal is to be reading Dracula by Halloween, so here's hoping I can make it through the remaining 454 pages by Thursday night. *crosses fingers* I really do love the story, it's just such slow going for me these days.

Finishing up Rose Madder by Stephen King tomorrow and will start Bram Stoker's Dracula.

I went to the consignment shop while my son took his driver's test. I came home with Dracula by Bram Stoker, Greek Drama edited by Moses Hadas and a teen age driver. Now that's scary.

... Sometimes fiction pales in comparison!!!!! Piyushchouasia, you won't be disappointed by Frankestein. I haven't read Dracula yet, let me know what you think!!! I think it will be in my Halloweed pile next October. I hope to finish out with Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes ...

... the Screw by Henry James 7. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 8. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole 9. Dracula by Bram Stoker

1. Dracula by Bram Stoker 2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 3. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 4. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice 5. Sing to Me of Dreams by Kathryn Lynn Davis 6. Robin Hood by Paul Creswick 7. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt ...

Added Dracula, Frankenstein and The Exorcist to my TBR list.

Dracula by Bram Stoker The Reluctant Vampire by Eric Morecambe The Vampyre by Tom Holland The Great Ghost Rescue by Eva Ibbotson The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

... hear you enjoyed The Historian, bib. I am only a few chapters into it, but am really enjoying it so far. I have not read Dracula in full, only parts, but am familiar with the story. Would be good to read, though, in light of all my recent vampire reading... I might even have a copy somewhere ...

I loved The Historian. I read it without having read Dracula. I might reread it now that I have read Dracula.

I'm in the middle of a couple of Halloween reads: Dracula by Bram Stoker & The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. Having some trouble getting into both of them, actually.

... but overall I loved the book. Didn't read it before bed though. That said, it hasn't made me want to read Bram Stoker's Dracula. I would highly recommend the book though - but yeah, time needs to be dedicated to it

Anyone interested in Dracula may also be interested in Renfield, Barbara Hambly's retelling of the story through the eyes of Renfield.

I can't believe no one's mentioned Dracula... Maybe A Case of Curiousities and The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil. I can't really put my finger on what's similar about them, but my brain insists that they are.

Vampire Classics 1. Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872 2. Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897 3. Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, 1976 4. The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas, 1980 5. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, 1995 6. Sunshine by Ro ...

... so today I had to order from the Christmas Sale. My big problem was that there were too many to choose from. I did order Dracula as I had been looking for it. --BJ

... thought through this interpretation completely, but I do think it's fair to say that Carrie has a thematic link with Dracula which also deals in questions of blood and female sexuality.

Sometimes I get more excited about my children's set texts than they do. This year I read Dracula, Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye. They are much more interesting books than I remember studying at high school thirty years ago.

Renfield is a retelling of Dracula from the eyes of a different character. In this case, it's probably best to have read the original beforehand, and in this case, the movies aren't close enough. Really good book!

... is a quickly paced story that isn't bogged down by a ton of 'this is this and that is that' stuff. On the other hand I love Dracula because of it's bogginess. The unique way that Stoker used the journal and diary entries was a hard go the first time I read it when I was in 7th grade, but ...

I remember Stephen King talking about the three big horror classics (Frankenstein, Dracula and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) in Danse Macabre. I remember that he said Frankenstein was important, but pretty badly written. I remember he liked Dracula, but not much ...

Finished Dracula. I've also started Memoir of Jane Austen, Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Macbeth.

73. Dracula by Bram Stoker Classic tale of human meets vampire who then tries to suck the life out of human and all of human's loved ones and friends. Good story. Pretty much what I expected. Now I get to see how the movie compares. Next Up: The Purpose Driven Life The Case ...

... I agree. He was channeling Stoker and I think he did a great job with that - I wonder if those people would have given Dracula a low rating too.

I'm reading Dracula and My Sister's Keeper. Both very good books so far.

Dracula just for the touchstone. I like it, but it's much much slower than more modern interpretations. It's been many years since I last read it, but I seem to recall all of Mina's 'woe is me I am a poor ailing woman' getting on my nerves.

... Silas House. Most likely, I'll start Coal Tattoo by Silas House next. What's on my bed stand right now? Dracula by Bram Stoker.

... in Rodanthe, Sunday at Tiffany's, and On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. Next I've started My Sister's Keeper and Dracula. I technically only have 1 more book to read in my original challenge. I have no doubt about finishing before the end of the year.

... and that there is no right or wrong way to approach creative writing. Currently Reading: My Sister's Keeper Dracula

... Historian by Elizabeth Kostova (one of those books I had from the library and didn't want to return a couple years ago) Dracula by Bram Stoker The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The last two mostly because I wanted to shorten my "Classics I Can't Believe I Don't Own" list.

Finished Adventures of Huck Finn for People and will be starting on Dracula soon. If it weren't for Dailylit I would never be able to read as many books as I have this year. Plus, a lot of the older books and classics are available and delivered right to your email which is convenient for ...

... story but not as complex and complicated as some other stories. Perfect for its time. Very enjoyable. Next Up: Dracula Currently Reading: Nights in Rodanthe On Writing Sundays at Tiffany's

I remember seeing an announcement about the Raj Quartet, but this is the first I've heard about a Dracula. It's rather surprising that they haven't done one by now. Any votes for illustrator?

I just finished reading the Folio Magazine and it indicates that both Dracula and The Raj Quartet will soon be available. Does anyone have confirmation of this?

From UKJess's library I would like to read Dracula by Bram Stoker. This is one I have been meaning to read for years but never got round to.

I'll have to rent the Matheson version of Dracula. I guess after I saw the Francis Ford Coppolla version it sort of laid the rest to waste (even if I didn't like the Anne Rice-ian elements he added). BTW: There was a really nice comic book adaptation done by Hellboy's Mike Mi ...

25/30: You know, now that you mention it, Mar did start piecing together MrA's true identity shortly after finishing Dracula...coincidence?

I'm reading Dracula at the moment. I wish I could have read it without already knowing so much about the book. The plot of the first few chapters consists of Jonathan Harker coming to realise that Dracula, who he is staying with, is weird and dangerous. Well duh. But I'm still enjoying it.

... they have a preview online. It really was a pretty neat movie. #66 - Nosferatu was the pirate version of Dracula. Old silent German movie by some folks who could't obtain the rights to the novel. It was remade in the '70's(?) by Werner Herzog. He filmed it ...

... which is from the second list. I am planning a theme read for October and will defer Inferno, Beloved, Frankenstein, Dracula, and Faust until then. Well, the touchstones quit loading at the end. I may have to come back later and try again! I hope that this challenge will continue ...

... a useful distinct title. Lastly, sometimes volumes that contain one large work get lumped in with that work; my copy of Dracula has Dracula's Guest at the end, but that' s not significant enough to me to separate it out from the Dracula work. In this case, Franklin's Autobiography is ...

... The Far Side of the World 1.27 Happy Feet 1.18 Pride and Prejudice (other versions) 1.18 Bram Stoker's Dracula 1.18 Shaun of the Dead 1.00 Being There 0.90 You will notice that there is a line between You've Got Mail and The Remains of the Day. Th ...

Aargh - Dracula by Edgar Rice Burroughs : http://www.librarything.com/work/5117534

... I was reading it, I noticed that it had articles on a couple of books that I was not aware were being published. One was Dracula (just in time for my October theme read that I am planning). The other was the Raj Quartet by Paul Scott. Has anyone heard of that book? It is new to me. Anywa ...

... to enter their books as they see fit. Unfortunately this sometimes leads to weird works like Moby Dick by Mark Twain, and Dracula by Mary Shelley. Other than leaving disambiguation notes, I don't see a solution to this problem.

Could we get this at a work level? I keep running into entries like Moby Dick by Mark Twain, and Dracula by Mary Shelley.

Dracula for me is scary in what it doesn't say, the count has such a dark presence over the whole book and all its events, something which becomes clearer for me upon subsequent re-readings. He controls, he is at the heart of the novel, without actually needing to assert himself into that role. He ...

... Jekyll and Hyde has been that way for me. (I thought the book was truly horrible, yet the concept always intrigued me.) Dracula has also been vague enough for me to accept the many versions of it that are available.

... novels that are all over the bookstore shelves just now. It was more like an historical vampire novel, sort of like Dracula, which is a classic but not something I would reread for fun.

...tiptoes past a snoring Booksloth... Reckon that's Dracula by Bram Stoker.....

... What truly stands out for me, however, was the title story Carmilla, a classic vampire tale pre-dating Bram Stoker's Dracula. The story is sensual and compelling, and it is easy to see why it's become a classic! (Incidentally, I bought the book 12 years ago, at the height of my vampire ...

#456 I just finished Dracula a few days ago. It's not something I'll reread soon, but for me the scary element came from completely avoiding the vampire myth for most of my life. I've never had anything to do with Anne Rice, movies featuring vampires, adaptations of the book, etc. I think if ...

... looks so annoyed when you stop... Sunday August 10 2008 Casper acting out one of her favorite classic reads ... Dracula blondierocket in 888 Challenge : Blondierocket's 888 (Aug 8, 2008, 3:33pm)

... and Jill is nearly complete and Orlando is headed that way as well. I'm thinking Knocked Out of My Nunga-Nungas, Dracula and Siddartha next. But I change my mind a lot at the last minute.

... aclos We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver Griffin & Sabine by Mark Bantock Clarissa by Samuel Richardson Dracula by Bram Stoker

... taking a tour of Europe! I expected more thrilling action, but in retrospect I think the book was much like Bram Stoker's Dracula in that the horror was psychological more than actual or visual. It definitely was reminiscent of the Stoker version. Message 222-I love Atwood-mostly. I find her ...

Dracula by Bram Stoker. It seemed to start out okay, but just got worse and worse as it went on. I don't know how anyone could think this book scary.

... Alan Weisman 6. The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell 7. The Hard Facts of the Grimm's Fairy Tales by Maria Tartar 8. Dracula by Bram Stoker 9. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 10. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King 11. Writing with Style John R. Trimble 12. The Fello ...

... Write Source 2000 for my Writing Lab On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King and last but not least Dracula by Bram Stoker For my personal reading, I'm working on: Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson and The World Without Us by Alan Weisman

Not true. I have read Dracula, and quite a few of the Anne Rice books before they just got too stupid and repetitive for me. I am sad to say I also struggled through The Historian, but in retrospect, don't know why I did. TPBM, like me, wishes he/she would have been invited to jillmwo's ...

... to come to my house that evening. I can promise you that I will not mention Stephanie Meyer at all; having once read Dracula and The Vampire Tapestry, I find I have exhausted my interest in vampire novels. The person below me has read one or the other.

I've been curious to see the 'Andy Warhol versions' of Frankenstein and Dracula. I have them in my Netflix queue, but haven't moved them up because I have the feeling that like what I've seen of Pink Flamingos, they are the type of movies it's better to know about than actually sit ...

... Grace 3. Oliver Twist 4. The Old Man and the Sea 5. Invisible Man 6. Beloved (Read) 7. Frankenstein 8. Dracula 9. Get Shorty 10. Dangerous Liasons 11. The Count of Monte Cristo 12. Brideshead Revisited I am trying to decide if I like my original list or my ...

... of the D’Urbervilles 47. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 48. The Yellow Wallpaper 49. Jude the Obscure 50. Dracula 51. The Turn of the Screw Well, as I am up to the 20th century now, I'll have a break. I'll probably add more later, as I tend to get a wee bit obsessive ...

... of the degeneration of the classes was a very important issue of the time - The Time Machine was released 2 years before Dracula; the first Yellow Peril novel in 1892. Look at what Dracula does - his 'influence' changes Lucy and Renfield from good English people into degenerates. It ...

... harder to find editions in the World’s Best Reading series: http://used.addall.com I have most recently picked up Dracula, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Northanger Abbey and Prisoner of Zenda/Rupert of Hentzau through this used book search engine. I have been using it for a ...

... from one of the Amish booths, some homemade pasta from another, some cushions for our kitchen chairs, and The Stand and Dracula from the used book booths. Then we went to downtown Ephrata and had lunch at a little cafe and coffee shop, picked up a couple of miniature kites to give our ...

... gaol, when he used the alias Sebastian Melmoth. Maturin incidentally was Oscar's mother's uncle by marriage. I read Dracula again last year for the first time since I was an adolescent. I enjoyed the descriptions, the succubus like brides, and especially the wolves. Stoker's use of diary ...

That was what got on my nerves about the (admittedly beautiful) Francis Ford Coppola adaption of Dracula. To those that were sad for him later in the film ("I love you too much!"), did you just forget about the bit earlier where he stole an infant and fed it to his other wives? Dracula (a ...

... myth - see Polidori - and was heightened by Le Fanu with Camilla, very openly lesbian for it's time. The sexuality of Dracula has more to do with the movies than the novel - in the novel the Count is repulsive: he is less a sexual predator than vermin that preys on humanity, spreading ...

... ment. I don't know what people see in werewolves either... but vampires are sexual by nature. It goes all the way back to Dracula. The Victorian lady meets a wealthy foreign gentleman and succumbs to his supernatural charm -- she would never submit willingly, of course! He hypnotizes her and ...

There is probably enough temptation, but not enough sin, for Dracula to be all that decadent. Still, it does have a strong whiff of decadence. Stoker's relish for describing crumbling buildings, cemeteries, lonesome landscapes, rats and the staking of vampires, helps. The story is told from many ...

I loved Hogg's book and need to read it again soon. I also need to read Dracula again (I read it as a monster story in my early teens). Written in the 1890s, it's a little late to be a proper gothic novel - so I suspect with all the languor and attenuated perversity of vampirism, it probably ...

... people who have the same novel whether published in as a stand alone book or as part of an omnibus or a collection. Think Dracula vs the single volume bundle of Frankenstein, Dracula and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Also think The Iliad and The Odyssey vs the bundle The Iliad and the Odyssey ...

... into swans. I was really hoping to like this book but it just left me wishing that there was more to it. 38. Dracula by Bram Stoker Very good book, of course it would have to be, seeing as this is the grand daddy of all vampire fiction, but it had a lot of good aventure and ...

I finished Dracula and started The Eyre Affair. Hopefully, this will be a quicker read than the three weeks it took me to get through Dracula. I have to say, Dracula was excellent, but it really insisted on quiet reading moments, which are few and far between in this house...

jseger, well, YMMV with Dracula. As I said, it wasn't bad. I just had a hard time sitting stills for the characters ramblings about Victorian morality when there was a vampire running about. Count Dracula is still pretty cool. I just had less patience with the non-vampiric characters.

Carlos, Sorry to hear Dracula was disappointing. That was another of those 'some day' books. I'll still try it though. Not that it compares to Nathaniel Hawthorne, but I really enjoyed the Sherlock Holmes stories and what I've read by Edgar Allen Poe. I know what you mean about ...

... that of the five works of older stuff I've read in the past year or so, the only ones I found really disappointing were Dracula and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Not that they were bad, but I couldn't stop comparing them to their much more suspenseful, dramatic 20th Century ...

... rodie Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell Bram Stoker, Dracula Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome and, David C. Major & John S. Major, 100 One-Night Reads: a Book Lover's Guide (no touchstone) I'm not all that excited about ...

... of snow and ice and bitter winds. It rained all day here, so I had the perfect atmosphere to finish Bram Stoker's Dracula. Any revelry that went on, much less debauchery, was only in my mind, MTP (more's the pity).

... That Book! I hope your review goes into detail about what you didn't like about it. I just finished Bram Stoker's Dracula. I had never read it, oddly enough, though I'm a fan of vampire and horror fiction. It was quite good and really grabbed my attention -- I started it yesterday ...

#103 and 104 ~ Same here, but I read Dracula as a teen on a cold autumn night in Chicago, with every light in the living room on. I remember worrying that my dad would get up and yell at me for wasting electricity, but I just couldn't stop reading yet it was so scary (esp. with the wind moaning ...

englishrose60, the same happened to me when I read Dracula, in my teens! :-))

I've got Dracula! I'm going away from Gothic, though. Anyone here read Loving by Henry Green?

Let's see: Lover Eternal, Speaks the Nightbird Volume II, Dracula, Lord Ryburn's Apprentice, Garden of Dreams by Valerie King

I just read the section with the old man in Dracula (yes, I do read that slow) and I loved many words there from the Yorkshire dialect. Fash masel (trouble myself) gang ageenwards (go toward) crammle aboon the grees (go upstairs) beuk-bodies (book people) skeer an' scunner hafflin's (scare ...

... Radcliffe, and, of course, Frankenstein. Neither Polidori's vampire novel nor Stoker's have made it yet, but I suspect Dracula will make his appearance soon; as the advertising slogan from Hammer Films' "Dracula Has Risen From the Grave' put it--"You can't keep a good man down!"

... Literature 1. Middlemarch 2. Northanger Abbey 3. Dracula 4. *Bleak House* 5. Washington Square 6. Kristin Lavransdatter 7. The Fortune of the Rougons

Ooh! That's Dracula. And I checked, and I'm right, but it's going to have to wait until I get home for the next line. Sorry!

... getting you down or The Dancing Wu Li Masters which is a highly readable book about physics. Bib what did you think of Dracula? As for classics well I was an English major so I tend to love them. There is often a reason they stand the test of time but I also don't think forcing things on ...

I just finished Dracula. I'm off to add it to my 50 Book Challenge and then start on Jane Eyre.

I have nothing new to say, I'm just trying to complete the "wall of bib". Now I will go read Dracula until some comes to keep my company here.

I started Dracula and also borrowed The Big Over Easy from the library (I still haven't tracked down The Eyre Affair.) I have about six or seven other books in a pile near my bed waiting to be read/finished. Now I just need the time-turner and I'm set.

I only have 3 more chapters of Dracula to go, so I should finish it tomorrow. I'm thinking Bronte next; which one though? I'm open to suggestions, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights. (I'll look at Anne last unless someone changes my mind!)

"Friend John, there are strange and terrible days before us." Dracula "Was it not for these causes that you send for me when the great trouble came?"

"The poor soul's body will enjoy the relief even if his mind cannot appreciate it." Dracula But why need we seek him further, when he is gone away from us?"

"Yabblins! There may be a poorish few..." Dracula "Surely these tombstones are not all wrong?"

"I would fain have rebelled, but felt that in the present state of things it would be madness..." Dracula by Bram Stoker "Are you not going to keep flies any more?"

... so I'll work on it this weekend. I've also started The Boleyn Inheritance for my lunch reading. Still working on Dracula as well, since I haven't been online much in the last week!

I just finished Howl's Moving Castle and I'm trying to decide between Dracula or Lost in a Good Book. Can someone tell me if that's the first Thursday Next book and if there is any reason I need to read them in order?

11. Sense and Sensibility (ebook) 12. The Golden Compass 13. The Subtle Knife 14. The Amber Spyglass 15. Dracula (ebook)

... Sense and Sensibility (ebook) and if it stays as quiet here this afternoon as it has been this morning I'll start Dracula today, and know what Mar and Cat have been talking about!

Dracula by Bram Stoker The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara Twilight by Stephenie Meyer Night by Elie Wiesel Outlander Series by Diana Gabaldon

I FINALLY finished The Historian last night and Dracula this morning. On the train on the way to the airport I started a book sent to me by the Literary Ventures Fund Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway. It is extremely interesting and very well written so far (I'm almost 1/2 ...

... read that made me think it might be interesting to be bitten and turned into one of the undead. (The only prior ones were Dracula and Salem's Lot, neither of which featured monsters that were as compelling, or who led such seductive lives, as Louis and Lestat.)

... the same word for host and guest in French which was part of what Camus played with in the title. Well I just finished Dracula which I mentioned on another thread and I am almost finished with The House in Paris and midway through a reread of Northanger Abbey and rereading The History B ...

... I'll try one with only the books I've read! Don't include the '(the)' Metamorphoses of Don Quixote (the) Awakening Dracula Where Angels Fear to Tread. Ok, so not really a perfect sentence, but hey, I haven't read all 1001 yet!

... of the washing machine reminds me that I must do laundry very soon. Perhaps tomorrow. Since I almost finished with Dracula I considered writing out the search for MrA in epistolary form but it is late for me so I am going to finish my tea and go to bed May 14, 2008 Post of Marensr ...

>115, I'm working on The Historian now too. It is probably the 3rd time I've read it and this time I'm doing it with Dracula and Vlad the Impaler(nonfiction). This theme read has been increasing my appreciation of The Historian even more!

Cat I am about halfway through Dracula (Dr. Seward has been summoned to look at Lucy, Mina has just married Harker, Renfield has escaped twice). It is really good. I really enjoy novels that make use of journals and the epistolary form and had know idea until I started that Dracula was one of ...

I'm working on Vlad the Impaler at the moment, and doing it as a theme read with two fiction books: Dracula and The Historian. I am really enjoying the way that the three books interact with one another, I think reading them all together like this is far more valuable in this case than ...

... but he certainly has well drawn characters. I am still reading The House in Paris almost finished so I can pick up Dracula and catch up with cat. But Compski just reminded me I had planned on doing the Jane Austen read along which means I should reread Northanger Abbey Then rissa's ...

I'm still working on my impromptu Vlad Dracul theme read with Vlad the Impaler, Dracula, and The Historian.

I am still reading Red Land, Black Land, and I have started reading Dracula. I haven't gotten very far in Dracula, but so far, I love it!

The Historian is actually a reread (I do quite enjoy it, though), but Dracula and Vlad the Impaler are first time reads, inspired by my interest in The Historian.

... The Diary of a Provincial Lady hilarious. I started The House in Paris on the train and of course there is still Dracula which since there are others reading it I'll have to finish so we can chat about it. There are several other things stacked next to my bed that I started but ...

I'm in Romania and traveling all over Europe with Vlad the Impaler and The Historian and, hopefully, with Dracula (if they've got it at Half Price Books tonight).

... since I've already got it. This turned into a theme-read and I'm planning to stop at Half Price Books tonight to pick up Dracula too. So now I'm doing a Dracula Theme Read. This is what happens when I go for a 'fun' book.

456- Ooh, I just recently bought Dracula. I might start reading it now. I am still reading Red Land, Black Land, though, so I'm not sure whether I will start reading Dracula now, or a little later. I'm also listening to The Titan's Curse with JP (I have already read that book, but it is JP's ...

Oh Mar, let me know what you think of Dracula. I've not read it either but I was tempted after reading The Historian. I wonder if I might get more out of a reread if I read Stoker first. I finished the series and have posted my thoughts on the thread. So now I'm down ...

... to describe if you haven't read it. Oh right now I am reading The Diary of a Provincial Lady and I have started Dracula but I was curious about the origins of the vampire story and I hadn't read stoker before.I am still just in Harker's journals and he has just arrived at castle Dracu ...

... the end by an interesting plot twist that I really don't want to give away. This novel is told in much the same style as Dracula, through the use of letters and journal entries, and the feel of the story is much the same as the original. Her prose is downright creepy in spots, and the plot ...

... and it looked interesting. Thing is due to the non-stop slew of crap vampire books I was afraid to try a new spin on Dracula. Now that I've seen an endorsement from someone trustworthy, I'll look into it. Have you read Lord of the Dead? That's another gothic vampire tale that looked ...

... being controlled by Dracula. The only major flaw I see so far is that you probably want to be familiar with Stoker's Dracula instead of relying on movie versions to be able to get the full effect.

... Stone Earthsea Cycle The Odyssey The Princess Bride The Wonderful Wizard of Oz His Dark Materials Dracula Peter Pan Dragonriders of Pern trilogy The Arabian Nights The Illiad Watership Down A Midsummer Night's Dream The Complete Fairy Tales and Storie ...

... llemyrsfolket Sult (in English: "Hunger") The Picture of Dorian Gray The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (long ago) Dracula (long ago) Heart of Darkness The Call of the Wild (long ago) Juvikfolke Growth of the Soil (in Norwegian: "Markens grøde") Kristin Lavransdatter De ...

... of the 19th Century" class covered Jane Eyre, David Copperfield, The Mill on the Floss, Tess of the D'ubervilles, Dracula, and The Picture of Dorian Gray. The cool thing was that it turned out that we happened to be a small class of all women (including the professor) so we chose to ...

Dracula by Bram Stoker was always an intriguing comparison to the movie by Francis Ford Coppola starring Gary Oldman. I wrote a book report comparing and contrasting the two when I was in high school. I really loved the way the movie covers for the love story between Mina and Dracula. H ...

... after finishing up The Well of Ascension. I'm only 3 chapters in, but so far it's a pretty good interpretation of Dracula.

Here`s my 12 - Mary Shelley - Frankenstein Bram Stoker - Dracula Pierre Quiroule - The Case of the Bismarck Papers Jack Trevor Story - The Season of the Skylark J B Priestley - All about Ourselves George Bernard Shaw - The Black Girl In Search of God ...

... how about Don Quixote? (It does have a 'date read' entry but it was in 1989, so maybe you're up for a reread. If not, Dracula.) I'm up for reading anything in my library that isn't already reviewed, though I prefer fiction. edited to close my parentheses.

Revenge: The Count of Monte Cristo Adventure: The Three Musketeers Suspense: Dracula Science Fiction: The Time Machine Comedy: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Fantasy: Narnia series Allegorical Commentary: The Crucible *anyone know why Dumas books are not working in ...

... n 1953 British author Sebastian Faulks Today is the anniversary of the death of: 1912 Bram Stoker author of Dracula 1982 Archibald MacLeish 2005 Fumio Niwa

... trilogy and The Hobbit by Tolkien (35 votes, Duh!) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Rowling (32 votes) Dracula by Stoker (27 votes) A Midsummer's Night Dream by Shakespeare (25 votes) Gulliver's Travels by Swift (23 votes)

... Byatt Possession by A.S. Byatt The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Death of Bernadette Lefthand by Ron Querry Three Plays by Thorton Wilder Snow by ...

Speaking of vampires, I'm about to read Dracula for the first time. BTW, I must be way too old for this thread. Facebook and Twitter are something I must have missed. Myspace escapes me. And I don't know if I can blog. Am I made for that?

... the MPI DVD set DARK SHADOWS: THE BEGINNING, which runs through the entire pre-Barnabas 1966 season. More Jane Eyre than Dracula, but fascinating.

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Bram Stoker's Dracula spring to mind, probably because they're books I've read.

He's right about the Spanish Dracula though. I have the Dracula Legacy Collection DVD that has both versions and a documentary. The doc talks about how the Mexican crew would come in at night and film on the same sets. They would see what the Americans were doing and attempt to outdo them. Ins ...

... FINISHED 4. Animal farm 5. His dark materials 6. Alice in Wonderland 7. The once and future king 8. Dracula

... be considered a pre-emptive gender switch, the vampire is herself female.) Enjoyable, nicely atmospheric. Not as epic as Dracula but more tightly plotted. 15. The Journal of Curious Letters Early Reviewer Book. Entertaining YA book about a boy who starts receiving "curious letters" ...

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