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I quite enjoyed this. Van Helsing started to get annoying towards the end of the book, but overall this was a good read with decent characters. It was more explicit than I expected (a good thing), but the ending wasn't as thrilling/suspensful as I think it was meant to be (at least for me). I feel like a "race against time" scenario is harder to do in print than it is on screen.
In any case, I would definitely recommend this, even if you're not usually a 'classic literature' person. And this edit ...more
In any case, I would definitely recommend this, even if you're not usually a 'classic literature' person. And this edit ...more
Some of the annotation was truly overdone for a first-time reader of "Dracula." I should have gone for an edition with lighter notes that did not include such frequent date/moon phase/bus schedule corrections. That said, a lot of the notes where insightful and enhanced my experience, but it was a long slog since the book is too large to conveniently transport for waiting room and public transportation reading.
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I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane. ~ Bram Stoker
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Daniel
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