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Dracula

Bram Stoker

Start date: October 15, 2016

Finish date: November 14, 2016

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Oct 04, 2015 Sara rated it liked it

Shelves: classics

Dracula was a bit of a surprise to me. It seemed to have little in common with the old Bela Lugosi film that I remember (albeit not very vividly) from my childhood. I can see why it became a classic and endured over the years, it is sensational and mildly erotic.

Perhaps the greatest surprise is that Count Dracula himself is seen but little during the telling of the tale. The action centers itself around the search for him and the efforts of the five men and one woman who risk themselves to brin ...more

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Jan 18, 2015 Josh Caporale rated it it was amazing

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Nov 26, 2017 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-classics, published-1899-and-earlier

As much as I’ve enjoyed watching several movie versions of Dracula over the years, I now see that none of them truly did justice to the book. They cannot capture the essence of the times nor the horror that Bram Stoker invoked in the reader when he described Dracula’s vile assaults on God-fearing, genteel young women in Victorian England. Even now, the following passage had the capacity to fill me with disgust:

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Oct 12, 2020 Carey rated it it was ok

Shelves: classics, audiobooks

Finally, after three attempts, I have finished! My biggest takeaway from this is that this is a classic that has suffered with how widely it has influenced pop culture. Knowing its cult classic significance inevitably spoils most of the big mystery and makes it feel like the build-up to this reveal takes forever. I think it is an enjoyable read, but the writing was extremely repetitive and the pacing for most of the novel was almost as slow as a vampire aging. I think the repetitiveness was mean ...more

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