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I read this as a teenager, and enjoyed it then. Upon re-reading it, I found that I enjoyed it just as much, but thought it wasn't as well written as it could have been. The plot has holes in it, and I found that the way Stoker wrote Van Helsing's English hindered at times my understanding of what that character was saying.
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Finally, finally, read this! The initial scenes in Transylvania were interesting, but then there were hundreds of pages of slower action. Very, very similar to Frankenstein in style and pacing. Lots of slow letters / journal entries interspersed with action.
I really wasn't enjoying this book, so finally (after the count had made it to Britain) abandoned it.
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I enjoyed this book. It was some parts fast-paced, some parts creepy, some parts dramatic and some parts funny. Some of the humorous bits were placed for us: such as us readers noticing Lucy becoming paler and paler, or noticing a big bat was eavesdropping on their vampire-killing plans. Other humorous bits were perhaps a product of its time- like how blood transfusions were regarded so intimate, or everyone worrying about the lack of virile young men to give transfusions to Lucy when there were
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When I first saw this book from afar, I was aghast that this book seemed so ugly, with its cheap pleather cover. BUT I bought it and actually gave it a higher rating than the story within! For the following reasons:
The cover photographs SO well: "Dracula" looks like it's gleaming red.
Each page has a little bat on the corner!
The flexible cover was a joy to handle, compared to a clunky hardcover.
The typeset was so readable. ...more
The cover photographs SO well: "Dracula" looks like it's gleaming red.
Each page has a little bat on the corner!
The flexible cover was a joy to handle, compared to a clunky hardcover.
The typeset was so readable. ...more
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