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Dracula
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October 1, 2020
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October 31, 2020
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What Members Thought

Stephanie
Oct 11, 2009 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: favorites, 2010, classics, 2020
Wow, this book deserves six, no ten stars! I have no idea why you aren't required to read this in high school! It beats many other books by far! I love it! There is no other book like it! It's written very well. And the characters are so memorable! I love Quincy! He's my favorite! And the plot! WOW! Oh, I can't remember his name now but the crazy guy was done very well!!

Written very well
Great plot
Memorable characters
Wasn't dragged out
Great bad guys
A realvampire

What more can a person ask for
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Mina
Oct 16, 2010 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Shelves: classic, horror
With all the vampire hype going on at the moment I was curious to read the novel that established the entire vampire story genre as we know it today. So far I haven't been lucky with classics and often ended up being bored...that wasn't the case with Dracula at all. From the very beginning I was sucked into the story with its loveable characters (one of the points I was most suprised about) and besides one or two verbose scenes rather breathless till the end.
If you want to read a story about a v
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Liander (The Towering Pile) Lavoie
I read this book the first time in university (about 10 years ago), and all I remembered about it was that it was kind of boring. But I decided to give it another go in audiobook format. And it was boring.

The beginning was not boring. The beginning was beautiful and scary and creepy, and Dracula was a terrifying figure, partly because of how utterly charming he was. I really enjoyed the whole part of the book that followed Harker in Transylvania.

Back in England, the part of the book involving Lu
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Liz
Aug 02, 2010 rated it really liked it
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Jun 16, 2012 rated it really liked it
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Aug 30, 2012 rated it really liked it
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Jan 03, 2013 rated it really liked it
Kasia
Jul 30, 2013 marked it as to-read
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Mar 16, 2014 rated it really liked it
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Oct 02, 2014 rated it liked it
Tabatha
Feb 15, 2015 rated it liked it
Karigan
Aug 13, 2016 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
Sue
Nov 30, 2020 rated it really liked it
Chanie
Sep 26, 2018 rated it really liked it
Shelves: classics
Amy
May 29, 2019 marked it as to-read
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Feb 23, 2020 marked it as to-read
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