Dracula

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Summary: Gothic Classic
Review: This is one of the great gothic classics, and probably the most readable. It does not have the thematic depth of Frankenstein or the popularity of Anne Rice, but it is a good read.

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Summary: Classic Horror
Review: Don't be mislead by the various movies you may have seen that were made using Dracula as a blueprint. This is actually a great piece of psychological horror. After a slow start, during which not much happens, beyond introducing the characters and your basic travel type novel of the day, the action suddenly takes off back in England. There is a certain slow dread that grows when you read this novel. Most people already know what happens in the book before they ever set hands on it. My advice is don't be gready for blood and gore. There is more an element of suspensful drama than a large body count.

This is a book worth the read.

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Summary: Dracula
Review: This book is about a man named Jonathan Harker, a man named Dracula, and two girls named Mina and Lucy. The story is about Dracula trying to suck everyone's blood. My favorite part is when a wolf jumps in Lucy's window. I like this part beacuse it is scary. I like Jonathan beacuse he is nice and helpful. I think other kids my age would like this book beacuse it's scary and fun to read. Read to find out if Dracula can be stopped!

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Summary: Dracula
Review: Dracula By Bram Stoker has a very good story to it but it doesn't have much exitment in it. The book is written through journals by people who all become connected together through out the story to stop Dracula. The book would be alot better if it had more excitment and also some suspense.

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Summary: A great story.
Review: Bram Stoker's only popular novel is also one that starteled me to my core. Based in 1800's England, five men, Jonathan Harker, John Seward, Dr. Van Helsing, Queincy Morris and Aurthur Holwood (later called Lord Godlaming) take up the harrowing challange of destroying the most evil being to ever walk this earth: Count Dracula.

Very mellow dramatic and with stark discriptions, this book takes you through variaties of emotions and feelings, mostly about the female characters, Lucy Westerna and Mina Murray (later called Mina Harker).

Although long and strenuous at times, you always wonder "what next," even though you know the answer...maybe. The book is written in the form of several journal entries, which enhances the effect in the fact that you get each persons perpective in a varity of way and from each person, but also harbors it by limiting what each individual can think at certain times. Stoker brings you through feelings of pity for the victims of the vampires also, playing with the most basic of human emotions.

The tone of the book increases steadly while the characters develop better than expected. My second vampire novel, it barely tops "Interview With The Vampire," which also left me breathless.

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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: Stoker makes frequent reference to Hamlet in Dracula, and that is fitting; like Hamlet, Dracula will never have an entirely faithful film version - and perhaps that is for the best. With all the vampires that have come before and after him, Dracula is still the best. It's all here...the bats, the brides..."The Children of the Night, what music they make!" If your only knowledge of Dracula comes from pop-culture (and you are a fan) you should definitely read this book. Told in a series of letters, Dracula himself is all the more scary because he spends so much time offstage. True, the novel is now more than a hundred years old, but it is the best example of Gothic literature there is.

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Summary: Dracula
Review: A beauifully written novel that touches all the sences and fills our mind full of ideas beyond belief. If you are into horror movies or like macobre ideas you will enjoy reading this classic novel clevorly written by Bram Stoker. All aspects of Gothic literture where met and surpassed in this novel. The setting takes place in Transylvania, in a dark in mysterious castle where Count Dracula dwells. The ancient prophecy of vampires on the undead reign surpreme all throughout the novel. The damsil in distress is used to its maximum potential to show how overwrought emotions control or daily interactions and unmost control the soceity we live in. If you are lookin for an enjoyable novel to indulge all of your senses in consider reading the novel Dracula.

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Summary: Dracula
Review: This makes about the fifth time I have read the book Dracula by Bram Stoker. This last time that I read it, I really had to make myself focus on it hard on the beginning of the book. The book is very good book for people too read. Many people can easily be brought into the way Stoker puts the details into the work. He has a lot of good descriptions of where Dracula lives and also by what Dracula looks like. He makes you think that you are in the story too.

This book can also be very creepy at times. All the way through out the book, it gets more and more interesting. If you are a person who likes scary books, then Dracula is a book for you. I choose this book because I found it very interesting.

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Summary: Let the dead rest in piece.
Review: It's getting a bit long in the tooth now. Bram Stokers Dracula was a good book for it's time, but alas times have changed. There are a whole new breed of horror writers focusing on the vampire element in this day and age. You would be better of focusing on one of them. Dracula may be the most famous Vampire of them all, but if it's a good blood curdling horror story you are after there are many, more evil and fierce than he ever was.
It's more like a warped version of beauty and the beast. The characters have that kind of melodramatic foppishness that comes with the period it's set in. If you've ever read anything by Brian Lumley then this book may be somewhat disappointing.

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Summary: One of the great horror novels
Review: It is a testament to Bram Stoker that his novel still has the power to chill today. I love the letter format that he chose to write this novel in. This novel belongs among the greats of any genre. It is no wonder that film adaptations of Dracula and Frankenstein (another great novel) fall short. Dracula is no blood and guts slasher novel. It is a mannered piece that features some glowing prose. I highly recommend this Modern Library version. The layout is good and Straub's introduction is quite valuable.