Dracula

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Summary: The sinlge, greatest novel ever written.
Review: This book is poetry in motion. The storyline flows through the novel unlike anything I have ever read before. Stoker's mastery of the literary technique by itself make it the greatest novel of all time. Combine that with the plot and sheer terror it bestows upon us and you have a novel that hasn't, and probably won't any time in my lifetime, be matched in its elegance.

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Summary: Too big for its breeches.
Review: Cardboard characters. Impenetrable Cockney accents at some points. A completely two dimensional story. If you enjoy reading the Bible, you'll enjoy this. I would have given it only two stars, but I must cut some slack for the fact that it was written over a hundred years ago, and this type of writing must have been avante garde. The movie with Gary Oldman is better.

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Summary: A hellish religious experience.
Review: Dracula stands as one of the greatest novels I have ever read. For horror, only one other novel comes close to giving the reader such a feeling of all encompassing evil and wickedness, that book being Lair of the White Worm, also by Stoker. Not only does one delve into the realm of all encompassing wickedness but one also finds himself having a religious encounter unlike any before. The forces of good verses evil have never been more apparent. One cannot help but sympathize with Dracula for one realizes that Dracula is Dracula and by his very nature must be the sanguinivorous fiend that he is. Yet, one knows that Dracula must be destroyed for nothing that evil should be allowed to exist. I read this book by candle light after dark. Atmosphere really enhanced this book. Dracuala was the most religious experience I have ever had. It is a must read for everyone and is one of only a handfull of books which I rate as a 10 out of 10. Read it before your coffin lid closes, it will disturb you.

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Summary: This book has been a life-long companion.
Review: I first read Stoker's classic sometime around 1963, when I was a teenager. It impressed me then and it impresses me still. I am approaching fifty years old now, and at least once a decade I have to dust off the Count and read him again. I read to my daughter all of her life and, a few years back when she was about 12, I told her that there was one, last book I would read aloud to her, DRACULA. She found the first few chapters a bit dry, so did I the first time through, and then the momentum builds and is sustained perhaps longer than any novel I've ever read. When I would come home in the evening and after dinner she would be waiting with the volume in hand. She loved it! In 1997, while visiting London, we were touring the west side of Highgate Cemetery, and I was struck by the locale and a certain, haunting familiarity that it seemed I had with it. A year or two later I was shocked to learn, quite by happenstance, that this very place had been the inspiration for the London segment of Stoker's book! Few books will meld with one's concious, will become part of one's psyche for a lifetime. Bram Stoker's DRACULA is a giant among the few.

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Summary: Quality!
Review: A great book, and how Mr. Stoker came up with his superb ideas of blood sucking, non mirror reflecting, earth loving monster! Good ideas amd a bloody good read! I wanted this work of litreture to go on forever!

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Summary: A really exciting page turning book, every minute.
Review: Wow! This book is awsome! Even though it was required reading after reading the first few pages I was hooked. It is amazing how someone is able to write something as good as this. The only thing I didn't quite like was the way some things kept staying the same, like when Mina Harker was getting hypnothised. For a few days she said pretty much the same things. What would make this a better book would be more interesting variations.

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Summary: Bram Stoker sets the standard
Review: One of the most amazing aspects of this truly classic book, is that when Bram Stoker wrote it, he had nothing to go on. that is, he had no set rules for horror stories. the way he unravels the mystery of the count himself to harker is genius. i think the first 50 pages of "Dracula" are a template for classic horror. and these themes are what today's writers use to tell their horror tales. you WILL enjoy this book

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Summary: THE CLASSIC HORROR OF ALL-TIME!!!!!
Review: When I started to read this book, I could hardly put it down. It is a good classic horror that will definitely keep you on the EDGE of your seat. This book is a kind that you should read when you are all by yourself or on a rainy day. For many centuries vampires have been a creature that have been told in stories to scare one another. But........no man can describe the monsterous, horror-tale of all time, better than Bram Stoker......in the epic legend DRACULA!

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Summary: If you like vampyre books, this one will astonish you!!!
Review: I think that this book was really spectacular. I read it for a report in school and thought that it was the best book that i had read in the whole year. I recommend this book to an older, more mature audience that can deal with all of the suspense. This book is great for a weekend at the beach or just a rainy night at home... but keep the lights on...HAHAHAHAH. I think that this book was well written and that this book, in years, will and should be a classic.

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Summary: Forget about Ann Rice and her sissy vampires
Review: Bram Stoker created THE ESSENTIAL VAMPIRE STORY. Dracula by far outshines every vampire novel EVER. After reading this (If you haven't already) you'll be saying "Ann Rice Who? Was that that kindergarden author who wrote vampire stories for kids?"