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Dracula

Bram Stoker

Start date: October 15, 2016

Finish date: November 14, 2016

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Oct 21, 2012 Laura rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: gothic-romance, e-books, fiction-19th-century, read-2012, horror, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, gutenberg, hungary, romania

An essential re-reading, after have visited Buda-Pesth even I stayed in the Pesth side of the city.

Free download available at Project Gutenberg. ...more

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Oct 22, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, gothic-lit, vic-lit, 1001-books

Read for Victober 2017.

I finished reading this book a couple weeks ago and if I had reviewed it immediately I would have given it 3 stars, maximum. However in the intervening days the book has grown in my esteem. I cannot explain why that happens -- books grow or fade in my esteem as time passes and I often cannot explain why that is. But this book in particular has made me think about the themes and motifs which is something I don't always do. Stoker played a great deal with my impressions of l ...more

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Feb 24, 2012 Pamela(AllHoney) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, books-to-movies, vampires-demons, horror

There is a reason this book has classic novel status. And fans of horror fiction have good reason to love it. And I did like it. However, I'm not a fan of the epistolary style of writing nor a big fan of horror. So why read it? Curiosity! That thing that killed the cat. Well, good news is I didn't die reading it. But I was not unfamiliar with the story, having seen various movie versions of it through the years. But I wanted to see how it played out in print. I was satisfied. ...more

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