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Dracula
Bram Stoker
When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, he ends up enslaved by the vampire who wants to learn about England. Leaving Harker for dead, Dracula travels to London where he begins to menace Harker's fiancee, Mina, and her beautiful friend Lucy. After escaping from Dracula's castle, Harker returns to London where he meets Abraham Van Helsing who may have a way to destroy the blood sucking monster.
First and foremost allow me to say this, it doesn't matter which movie version you've seen of Dracula, none of them are true to the book. If you want the real, original story - then you need to read this. Dracula is not suave and does not visit his enemies pretending to be human (as in the Bela Lugosi version) and there is nothing romantic between him and Mina (as in the Coppola version). This book is nothing like the romantic vampire novels that seem to pop up all the time in this day and age. Dracula is not sexy, he is not romantic, and becoming a vampire is not something good. This is how vampires are supposed to be.
That being said, this novel is excellent. It is written in the form of various journals of the different characters pieced together to show the entire story. It flows very well from one person's journal to the other and shows the banding together of people who start off as strangers to fight for a common good. It also portrays, in an excellent way, the triumph of good over evil.
The language is a bit rough at times, but you have to keep in mind not only when this was written, but also the way people spoke back then. From noble English, to cockney English, to a German trying to speak the best English he can... Stoker nails down the languages of his time. And even in this day and age, it's still readable and still a fantastic story.
If you have any interest in vampires at all, then I highly recommend reading this novel. It's not an easy read and it might take a while to go through it, but it is well worth it and portrays the vampire as it should be portrayed.
My rating: Five out of five snails.
Bram Stoker
First and foremost allow me to say this, it doesn't matter which movie version you've seen of Dracula, none of them are true to the book. If you want the real, original story - then you need to read this. Dracula is not suave and does not visit his enemies pretending to be human (as in the Bela Lugosi version) and there is nothing romantic between him and Mina (as in the Coppola version). This book is nothing like the romantic vampire novels that seem to pop up all the time in this day and age. Dracula is not sexy, he is not romantic, and becoming a vampire is not something good. This is how vampires are supposed to be.
That being said, this novel is excellent. It is written in the form of various journals of the different characters pieced together to show the entire story. It flows very well from one person's journal to the other and shows the banding together of people who start off as strangers to fight for a common good. It also portrays, in an excellent way, the triumph of good over evil.
The language is a bit rough at times, but you have to keep in mind not only when this was written, but also the way people spoke back then. From noble English, to cockney English, to a German trying to speak the best English he can... Stoker nails down the languages of his time. And even in this day and age, it's still readable and still a fantastic story.
If you have any interest in vampires at all, then I highly recommend reading this novel. It's not an easy read and it might take a while to go through it, but it is well worth it and portrays the vampire as it should be portrayed.
My rating: Five out of five snails.
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