Dracula in Around the World in 80 Books

Aug 11, 2013 Stil de scriitor rated it it was amazing

Iată-mă ajunsă și la o carte pe care nu credeam că o voi citi prea curând. Poate de teamă că o să îmi placă prea mult, poate din cauză că toată lumea o citește și parcă mereu există o altă carte mai interesantă decât asta. Cert este că am citit-o și, deși era grosuță, am terminat-o în vreo 4 zile. Mi-a plăcut foarte mult. Este o carte scrisă sub forma unui jurnal, ușor de citit și inedită. Am trăit alături de personaje toate evenimentele, am trăit suspansul alături de ele, am trăit pur și simplu ...more

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Nov 12, 2016 Erica rated it really liked it

"Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all, and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain. But yet we see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new, and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young, like the fine ladies at the opera. I suppose now you do not believe in corporeal transference. No? Nor in materialization. No? Nor in astral bodies. No? Nor in the reading of thought. No? Nor in hypnotism..." (loc 4078) ...more

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Aug 28, 2007 Kay rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, haunted-strange-macabre

So much has been done with the Dracula legend in popular culture that it's easy to lose sight of Stoker's original -- and, invariably, to be a little disappointed in it.

Still, it's undoubtedly a classic. It just goes on a little longer than the modern reader might wish. I read some other Stoker novels, out of curiosity, and found Dracula to be by far his best. ...more

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Apr 05, 2009 Jen rated it really liked it

Shelves: classic-fiction, british-literature

I wanted to read the classic vampire book among all the vampire hype lately and am I glad I did. Dracula is a compelling and scary story, even though anyone who pays any attention to pop culture would know the general plot. However written in journal entries from a few of the characters perspective the story unfolds and is really compelling. I highly recommend this book to anyone.

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