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Summary: is this still bram stokers dracula? im confused.
Review: if this is just another publishers version of bram stokers dracula, it is still a deeply enthralling book (im just a mite bit confused). Well there ya go. If you're into intriguing mystery that'll get you hook you gotta check this out. I'm so good, I should write reviews for Amazon and get paid.
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Summary: LETTERS PEOPLE
Review: OK, I want to say something original, as everything said by other reviewers (impeccable novel, interesting essays, etc)is VERY true.A PLUS: The footnotes. I've found them to be "essential", in the sense that they illuminated the darker (historical references, imagery, sutile actions) paths of Stoker's book. A MINUS: the tiny letters. This may sound foolish, but it took me forever to adapt to this type of letter. It is as small as it gets, and the lines are VERY close to one another. This should be corrected, because a good edition for readers is as vital as feng shui is to houses (stupid thought, I know, but worth the effort).
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Summary: Harrowing at times; boring at others
Review: The first part of the book when Hawker is at Castle Dracula is the best part of the book. It's creepy, it's gothic, it is the best written part of the book. Unfortuanetly it goes down scale from their. I think the problem is that Stoker is that great of a stylist. If your looking for an extremely well written horror novel check out Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes. If you are willing to make allowances at times this is a good book. It still more worth your time than anything on television though.
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Summary: At least the baddies interesting
Review: The main prolem with this book is that Bram Stoker was not a very good writer. What he "created" here is the first popular version of a creature that had already been written about several times even in his time. Bram Stokers vampire, probably because it had the history of a real life monster, captured the publics imagination and this book only sells on the back of a culture that sprang from a great creation in a mediocre story. This will only interest those who enthuse about horror and, specifically vampires.
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Summary: Mysteriously riveting
Review: This book is the best portrayal of vampires, keeping my mind on edge while visualizing Stoker's description of the infamous Count Dracula, a figure that many authors have attempted to depict in their respective novels. The mysterious nature of Stoker's style creates an incredibly real image of the vampire world, one which relies on human blood to survive. Stoker's method of using the different character's journals to explain the course of events is very unique and groundbraking, in terms of structure, for a story of this nature.
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Summary: The Original Vamp
Review: This is the horror novel that launched a thousand vampires. Actually, it's not really a novel - it's a collection of letters. Two women, best friends Mina and Lucy, are happily sharing their love lives with eachother on paper. Mina is about to marry her beau Jonathan Harker; and Lucy is trying to choose between Dr. Arthur Seward and Quincey Morris, true-blue good guys both. Suddenly, a stranger from Transylvania comes to town and Lucy becomes gravely ill. Seward writes to his mentor, Dr. Van Helsing for help. The good doctor does indeed know what they're dealing with, but he's too late to save Lucy. The group barely has time to grieve before strange things start happening, and by the time they realize that the stranger,Dracula, is in fact a vampire, he's set his malevolent eye on Mina... Some people find the letters tedious, and that there's far less of Drac around than they'd expected - but try to read them as if you also don't know what he is yet. The "news clipping" about the Ghost-ship's arrival from Transylvania, for example, is still chilling - and the final chase scene, in which the friends lose one of their own, still packs an emotional and adrenaline punch.
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Summary: Bram Stoker's Dracula: A worthwile reading
Review: When I started to read Bram Stoker's Dracula, I thought that I wouldn't enjoy the style that it was written in. I was worried that the book being written in the form of letters would make it boring and dull. I was wrong. Bram Stoker's writing the book in the form of letters makes it very exciting. Reading about the plot through a first person viewpoint gives the book a thrilling suspense that would have been difficult to achieve otherwise. It is a perfect Gothic story, full of romance, love, horror, and human emotions. The only disappointment that I had in the book was the ending. It was slightly anti-climatic, and was a bit of a letdown. Previously to the ending there had been a large and drawn out build up of suspense and excitement. The book ended far too suddenly. Other than that I enjoyed the book immensely. Anybody who likes a good thriller filled with suspense will enjoy Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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