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Summary: Dover makes Dracula accessible to the masses
Review: Dover's thrift editions are always nice for getting classroom sets for teachers trying to make do with having no money and still trying to provoke their students in reading and learning. "Dracula" is not traditional classroom fare, with "Frankenstein" a more traditional choice since it deals with humans doing things they were not meant to do. But Stoker's vampire novel can still provoke some intriguing classroom discussions over the use of different first person narratives, the elements of horror, and the willinging suspension of disbelief. Given all the variations on Dracula in films, it may well be worthwhile to talk about the range of interpretation versus being faithful to an author's original vision. For some classes, this might be worth a shot and Dover makes it economically feasible.
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Summary: Great Horror
Review: Dracula is a great book. It's written terrific. It starts you off with curiousity and once you read the first few pages you don't want to stop. Its mix of horror and sensuality, just leads you through the book.
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Summary: The Greatest Horror Novel of All Time!
Review: Bram Stoker's tale of terror, 'Dracula,' is just as chilling today as it must have been to readers a hundred years ago. Stoker's original story, which has been told many times since in film and book, is the tale of Johnathen Harker, his love, and his friends, and their horrific experiences at the hands of Count Dracula. The book begins with Harker traveling to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Dracula. Aquainting him with English customs and traditions when the Count buys land all over London from his firm, Harker soons learns of Dracula's true nature- that of an unnatural fiend who causes destruction wherever he goes. When Dracula travels to England Harker's friends enlist the aide of Dr. Van Helsing, the only man who understands just what evil the Count is capable of. The story that follows is one of love, hate, maddness, and adventure as Dracula seeks to destroy Harker and his friends. As well as being a great work of literature, 'Dracula' is a wonderful tale of horror that modern readers are sure to enjoy!
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Summary: my review for dracula
Review: I thought the novel was very well written and oy had a lot of excitement and details in it. I also thought that the city of transylvania was portrayed well. I would recommend this novel to just about anyone who is interested in this kind of fiction.
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Summary: A true horror classic
Review: Chock one up to the Europeans for understatement. This book is possibly the most frightening I've ever read, while being the least gruesome. Forget everything you've ever seen and read about Count Dracula (including Coppola's film version, which is a oversexualized bastardization of the book)--Stoker's Count is at once fascinating and horrifying, compelling and abhorrent. My only regret is that the reader doesn't get a close enough glimpse at the "monster" (that, and the author's anti-American attitudes, which are quite prevalent throughout). Looking for a quick and scary read? This is your book.
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Summary: aaaaaaaaarrrrrrggggghhh
Review: if you are looking for a spine chiller then look no further than this book. forget all the vamp films you've see, this is the original and by far the best. forget Buffy, forget Angel, Dracula is the baddest -------- of them all. the discription of dracula castle is genuinley scary. this book is a page turner and a half.
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Summary: horror
Review: this is an absolute must for all vamp tale fans as well as fans of the horror genre. the book starts off with an earie and haunting begining and then takes the reader on a roller coaster ride into the sinister world of the Count. the story is action packed and easy to read. it is very cleverly written as a result the reader is never bored. the reader is allowed to use his imagination in that the author does not over describe events, places or the characters.
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Summary: Horror Classic
Review: 4. I thought this book was fantastic. Unlike the other books, this one was hard to put down. The best part was how you could see each characters point of view by reading their diary entries. It gave details about everything so not one part was confusing. Renfield, Dr. Seward's patient and Bram Stoker's genius, was my favorite character. His confusing moods hinted you on to something, but then totally threw you off. This intrigued me greatly. Despite this, there were a few things I didn't agree with. The first one was I didn't like that Stoker did not describe Jonathan Harker's escape from Dracula's castle. It would have been better if you could see the tension and excitement in escaping from the Count. Secondly, a minor difficulty was how they talked in Old English and not proper English. Not proper English has a good example on page 349 a worker says, "Why 'e took up 'is end o' boxes like they was pounds of tea." It was a bit confusing, but it made the story more frightening and Gothic. After a while, I got the hang of reading it.
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Summary: Possibly the best vampire book ever written
Review: I loved this book! I think it was a well-told tale of the battle of good and evil. The story was interesting and very engrossing for me. I think "Dracula" touched on the sensuality of vampires in an interesting way. Since Stoker couldn't write about sex in his book during his time, he did it creatively, through the way the vampire drank the blood of the women he desired. It's a classic novel, which is why I think it's been the sole influence on how we view the vampire today, and why it will be around for a long time.
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Summary: The all-time, ultimate horror classic
Review: Think of the word "horror classic" and "Dracula" almost instantly springs to mind. Bram Stoker brings the ancient vampire lore vividly to life in this epistolary novel of the Transylvanian count who comes to London in search of new blood and new victims. Much more than Frankenstein (a kind of boring monster, when all is said and done), "Dracula" inspired a whole genre of horror stories based on vampirism, of which Stephen King's "Salem's Lot" is one of the best. Some readers have complained of the epistolary style the book is written in but I thought it helped carry the story along excellently. And with the exception of Lucy (all that fainting and whining does kind of get on one's nerves), the characters are far from weak. The book works on all levels, as a great novel as well as a hellacious humdinger of a horror story.
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