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Dracula
Read-along CDs (one CD per title) feature professional actors and sound effects and include page-turn beeps, page-number prompts, background music, and multi-cast voices.
Saddleback's Illustrated Classics. These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
Saddleback's Illustrated Classics. These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics.
1 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2006
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September 20, 2021
Started with the graphic novel to see if I would like it. Makes me want to read the original one.
October 27, 2014
Quite good. But no Renfield or Quincey Morris, it's a very short version of Bram Stoker's book. The drawings are well done, enough detail without being a distraction and the colours are very good. If you like graphic books this is one to add to the list to read.
October 30, 2023
This gives me a slight deeper understanding of what's going on. Although some of my favourite scenes aren't in it (like the emotional scene with Mina and Quincey). It was somewhat faithful although I think the order is changed a bit because of the medium but I don't mind. But do I like it more? No... not really.
August 10, 2018
Eh.
Definately not my favorite rendition. I remember trying to tackle the full manuscript in middle school. Slipped right over my head, at the time! Now, I thought it might be nice to get the gyst of the classic tale.
Now, my observations on most classic literature are these: They were written at a different time, for different people, with different needs. I personally find most classic books to be slow with outdated values. Not for me. I'd rather read the newest YA novel that everyone's talking about on Twitter or some indie novel I'm too cool for you to have ever heard of. Yet another reason why a graphic novel seemed like a good idea.
While I like a fast paced book I felt this one flew through the story too fast to do anything impactful. I felt like I was missing a lot of vital information to the story. How did all these people know eachother? Why should I, the reader, care about any of them? Because Lucy needs protected, Misha is nobel, Van Helsing puts himself in harms way for the greater good, and whats-his-face--You know, the blond! Likes Lucy and all that? I feel like an essential element to the story was taken out with everything else that wouldn't capture an 8 year old's attention.
The concepts great. I just felt like I was reading cliff notes. I kind of want to read the actual classic book Dracula now.
The art wasn't bad. It just felt very vintage. It reminded me of watching Scooby Doo as a kid. Colors are vibrant, but what's wrong with that?
Definately not my favorite rendition. I remember trying to tackle the full manuscript in middle school. Slipped right over my head, at the time! Now, I thought it might be nice to get the gyst of the classic tale.
Now, my observations on most classic literature are these: They were written at a different time, for different people, with different needs. I personally find most classic books to be slow with outdated values. Not for me. I'd rather read the newest YA novel that everyone's talking about on Twitter or some indie novel I'm too cool for you to have ever heard of. Yet another reason why a graphic novel seemed like a good idea.
While I like a fast paced book I felt this one flew through the story too fast to do anything impactful. I felt like I was missing a lot of vital information to the story. How did all these people know eachother? Why should I, the reader, care about any of them? Because Lucy needs protected, Misha is nobel, Van Helsing puts himself in harms way for the greater good, and whats-his-face--You know, the blond! Likes Lucy and all that? I feel like an essential element to the story was taken out with everything else that wouldn't capture an 8 year old's attention.
The concepts great. I just felt like I was reading cliff notes. I kind of want to read the actual classic book Dracula now.
The art wasn't bad. It just felt very vintage. It reminded me of watching Scooby Doo as a kid. Colors are vibrant, but what's wrong with that?
June 13, 2010
Ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to become the bride of Dracula. There is something about vampires that is completely and utterly romantic. Maybe it is the way the moonlight hits their fangs, revealing the sweet sanguine from their latest kill, I'm not really sure. Each time that I read "Dracula," I remember when I feel in love with the story and the character, and this books is just as much a bittersweet love story as it is horrific.
July 20, 2022
still don’t like it tbh.
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