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Dracula

Bram Stoker

Start date: October 2, 2016

Finish date: October 31, 2016

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Feb 26, 2009 Andrea rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction-horror, read-sorted, favorites, list-1001-books, literature-irish, 2017-chunkster

2019: Another re-read for the season. Fall wouldn’t be complete for me without Dracula. Love it to pieces and will continue to read it at regular intervals for years to come.

2017: I'm bumping Dracula up another star - cementing its place among my all time favourites. I noticed so many little details and allusions to the behind-the-scenes happenings that I completely missed before. Few questions I still have:

1. Why did Dracula need the wolf from the Zoological Gardens?
2. Who drugged the sherry t ...more

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Jun 22, 2011 Jess rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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This was my second time reading Dracula. The first time I read it, in 2011, I loved it. A second reading made me love it even more, if that’s possible. A five star book if I ever read one.

There are so many things that I love about Dracula that I don’t really know where to begin. I think the fact that it’s written entirely in journal entries, letters, newspaper articles and the like, is fascinating. It gives you a very deep view into the thoughts of the characters. Bram Stoker’s writing reads eff ...more

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