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Summary: you won't even blink!
Review: This started from reading a book about the demon lover as popularized by Jungian analysts. So, with the repeated reference to Bram Stoker's Dracula, I thought it a good idea to simply pick it up and perhaps give it a bit of a browse. I could not put the book down and you won't either. It is a gothic thriller that plays exquisitely with the reader's imagination so much more than any more recent work could ever do. The book did not give me any nightmares either - it isn't some cheap bit capitalizing on fleshy gore and disgusting goo. Instead, this book is an awesome exploration of how humanity both defines and fights evil. Bram Stoker's Dracula is as much a fabulously wonderful read by itself as it is a rich and detailed metaphor of the "demon lover" within us all. Wow!!
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Summary: Starts with a bang, ends with a whimper
Review: I had very mixed feelings after reading Bram Stoker's classic horror novel about the seminal vampire of modern literature. The first part of the story, in which English real estate agent Johnathan Harker is trapped inside Castle Dracula with the dread count, is riveting and so much better than I expected. Stoker conjures up a truly oppresive and frightening atmosphere. However, once the action shifts to England, the story bogs down and never really gets going again. Stoker uses the unwieldy device of telling the entire story through the journal entries of various characters--they must have truly extraordinary memories to reproduce the conversations and lengthy speeches contained therein. The characters themselves are paper thin; all of the men are brave and honorable and all of the women fair and pure. Stoker devotes page after page to conversations in which characters deliver testimonials to each other's sterling qualities, which grows rather tiresome very quickly. To make matters worse, Dracula fades into the background at this point and makes only a few appearances after that. There are a few effective moments and things pick up a bit by the end of the novel, but it is never able to match the horror of its brilliant first section.
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Summary: A Mesmerizing Classic!
Review: I have read the novel Dracula, and have enjoyed it thoroughly. The plot is engrossing and easy to follow. It can become confusing at times though. It was a little confusing because the entire book was written in diary entries and newspapers. I like Dracula because there are many different aspects to the same event.
Dracula is a story about a vampire who moves to London, after one of the main characters travels to Dracula’s castle to sell it. Count Dracula goes to London and turns the main characters’ friend into a vampire. The protagonists then vow to slay the Count once and for all. This is a great book that I think everyone should read. It gives new insight into the way you should think about vampires.
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Summary: Dracula the Unexpected
Review: Perhaps, like most people, I had preconceived ideas about Dracula. Hollywood has been hard at work creating an image which, while ghoulish, is much different than the novel. Bram Stoker's book is subtle and chilling. Dracula is all pervasive and immensely powerful. He is cold and can find his victim almost anywhere. I recommend this book to everyone. The reader will be unnerved by its pricipal character but pleased that the novel itself is so different from the standard dross dished out by Hollywood. Read it and relish in Dracula in his original carnation.
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Summary: Two Teeth Up for this novel!
Review: Bram Stoker does an amazing job in this novel to scare the pants off of you. The novel is arranged in diary form from a few of the main characters including: Jonathan Harker, Dr. Seward, Dr. Van Helsing, Mina, and Lucy. The novel starts out with Jonathan going to Transylvania to see Count Dracula about a property acquisition for a house near London. It is from the moment that Jonathan arrives that Dracula puts him sort of in a trance and forces him to stay in the castle for months. In the summer months a ship arrives with every crew member dead, and no one else on the ship. Or so they tought, because Dracula had already left the ship. In his new house, Dracula begins to start looking for victims. This is when he finds Lucy, whom he sucks her blood and then she turns into a vampire. Eventually, the group finds out about Dracula and searches for him to kill him and his evil doing. Dracula is an amazing book that will keep you in suspense to the very end. The book is very easy to read and even easier to get trapped into reading long into the late night. If you are looking for a scare pick up this book and you won't regret it.
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Summary: dracula gave me the chills!
Review: dont read r.l stine if you are looking for pure horor,read Bram stoker's Dracula.this book takes place in the late 1800s. there are many dark secerets in count draculas castle in transelvania. john harker has yet to discover these hororifing secerets. read this book and others like it such as frankenstien and you will know what scary really means.
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Summary: Horrific Masterpiece (Something To Get Your Teeth Into)
Review: Amidst the broad, and varied, collections of literature I have come across, there is one novel that stands out head and shoulders above the rest...DRACULA. An intense, moving, riveting and downright awesome tale depicting everybody's favorite Bat Man. Most people already know roughly the story, but they are probably unaware of how good the novel actually is. Written from the viewpoints of various characters, the tale blends itself seductively through a gothic and often scary sequence of well written scenarios. From London to Transylvania, each chapter maintains the impetus of the story nicely, tying up all loose ends in a dramatic showdown in the batcave itself.
Nothing else really to say except that this is a definite must for anyone who is lucky enough to be able to read.
Good work Bram!
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Summary: Weak Ending but Great Book Nonetheless
Review: This book is much better than I expected it to be.It might take some time to get used to the 19th-Century language, but what amazed me is how modern the pacing and atmospheric imagery is in a book written in the late 1800s. Except for the language pointed out above, it really feels like it's a film script completed last week. I also like having it written from different characters' perspectives through their various journals, diaries, and letters. The one thing that I thought could have been better is the ending. It's simply very abrupt, and I felt, unsatisfying. With so much buildup, I thought there could have been, and should have been, A LOT more action at the end. Still, that should not keep you from reading the book. You've probably seen dozens of Dracula movies through the years, and this is in large part the genesis of all of that, and the reason why to this day people are obsessed with this fascinating character.
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Summary: Bram Stoker's Magnum Opus
Review: By day he sleeps in the dark and gloomy dungeon of his ancient and dilapidated castle. By night, Count Dracula surreptitiously seeks the blood of the innocent to crave his insatiable appetite with his razor sharp canine-like teeth. Count Dracula, the abhorrent antagonist, manifests himself as the cunning Un-Dead vampire who can summon the elements of wind, rain, fog, and snow at will, can command an army of rats and wolves with ease, and possesses the "strength in his hand of 20 men." Oh, and by the way, he can alter forms into a bat or wolf as well as slip through cracks and disappear and reappear at will, too. A formidable foe, to say the least, right? One small disadvantage our almighty Count does possess however - from dawn to dusk our most unusual friend loses his ability to alter forms and disappear at will. Will the blood lust come to an end? Read it and you shall soon see, my friend.
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Summary: Really good... until the ending
Review: As you read you find the book is made up of all the different character's journal entries. This is really creative. I found myself really addicted to it until the end. There is this big build up of a fight to destroy Dracula. With such a big build up, I was dissapointed to find no battle or even a struggle once they find him. Dracula goes out with a whimper. It was almost too easy. Lack luster ending for sure. The Francis Ford Coppola film Bram Stroker's Dracula (1992) is much better. But in all fairness, I am sure for it's time, it could have been so much more. I know Bram Stoker put alot of work and research into learning about the real Dracula, other wise known to some as "Vald the Impaler". Bram's character is loosly based on the real man and how he got the idea to write the book.
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