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I can’t believe I waited so long to read this because it was so amazing. How did I skip over it back during my vampire phase in Korea? So much fun! I listened to the audiobook read by a British man who did an amazing job of all the accents and I was so into the narration that I was happy to do more housework as an excuse to listen to it. I was surprised to find how well the diary entries and letters format worked. The thing that amused me the most was that everyone was all best buds and madly in
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I can’t believe I waited so long to read this because it was so amazing. How did I skip over it back during my vampire phase in Korea? So much fun! I listened to the audiobook read by a British man who did an amazing job of all the accents and I was so into the narration that I was happy to do more housework as an excuse to listen to it. I was surprised to find how well the diary entries and letters format worked. The thing that amused me the most was that everyone was all best buds and madly in
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I have to admit that I am surprised at the accessibility of the writing in this novel. Classics are usually so stuffy and pretentious. Dracula, instead, read a bit more like a modern novel, with a less formal narrative style and believable dialogue. The parts from Dr. VanHelsing were a little more difficult to read through due to sentence structure, but I still made it through these okay. I liked the epistolary style and thought it worked really well for the story. The tale was still told in qui
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Dracula was pretty good. Not as spooky as I had hoped. And, I expected much more of the Count to be present. Instead, it seemed to be more about his victims and captors.
So, not at all like the Bela Lugosi movie. Heh.
So, not at all like the Bela Lugosi movie. Heh.
Discovered that I really am not as fond of the journal style of writing as I thought or there was just too much of it in this book!
Forgot how good this was.
Oct 09, 2014
Andrei88
marked it as to-read
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Barbara
marked it as to-read
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dani
marked it as to-read
