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3.84 AVERAGE
3.84 AVERAGE
dark
tense
medium-paced
I was never able to finish this book (nor appreciate it) when I was younger, but I have found that Dracula is written quite well, and it was a perfect book to read in October. The story and characters are both believable and entertaining, and I would recommend this book to anyone who may be a fan of horror or classic vampire tails.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I'll be damned if I'm not a sucker for epistolary novels where science-minded characters are forced to do battle against individuals of cunning. Now, Dracula is nowhere near as sympathetic as Mary Shelley's Creature, but Stoker masterfully pulls along this tense narrative, even as it dips into the riveting act of locating shipped property through detective paperwork.
I raced through it in preparation for Nosferatu, but this is certainly one I will return to again.
I raced through it in preparation for Nosferatu, but this is certainly one I will return to again.
Creo que mis expectativas me traicionaron un poco, pero eso no lo vuelve un mal libro, más bien, creo que esta muy bien logrado y que hace honor a su fama de ser un antes y un después en la literatura de horror.
Pd: Hay demasiados PERO Demasiados monólogo que pueden llegar a ser insoportable en momentos (especialmente por parte de Van Helsing).
Pd: Hay demasiados PERO Demasiados monólogo que pueden llegar a ser insoportable en momentos (especialmente por parte de Van Helsing).
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Dracula is a book about anxieties and it turns out, the anxieties haven’t changed much from Victorian England to now. Read to reflect on questions like: What constitutes a monster? What constitutes a hero? How did vampires turn from evil creatures of the night to the sexy immortals of today?
5/5 for being more modern and relevant than I would have guessed.
5/5 for being more modern and relevant than I would have guessed.
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
A fun way to experience and be immersed in such a classic novel
My recent audiobook selection for Doing The Dishes.
Imagery and dialogue were S-tier. It wasn't as frightening as I had expected bc it never truly felt like the Count posed an imminent physical threat to anyone other than Jonathan at the beginning - which was my favorite part. The horror relied more heavily on fear of god/uncleanness (Nosferatu (2024) prepared me for this). The final showdown was also super anticlimactic.... I WANTED TO SEE THAT VAMPIRE FIIIIIGHT. Oh well.
Here are some quotes and thoughts I had throughout (SPOILERS):
- "I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul."
- "For nothing can be more dreadful than those awful women who were... who are... waiting to suck my blood!"
- It is so mean and so beautiful that Stoker made Dr. Seward one of Lucy's rejected suitors.
- Also, the way Seward and Van Helsing both refer to Lucy's condition as "OUR illness" is kinda romantic, no?
- "He was in a torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain. His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood in him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep from breaking down" okkkk danielle steel!
- WHY ISN'T VAN HELSING TELLING JOHN SHIT?!!!?
- "I want to cut off her head and take out her heart" Oh there he goes....
- Van Helsing: "Are you satisfied now, Friend John?"
Dr. Seward: "I am satisfied that Lucy's body is not in that coffin, but that only proves one thing..."
Helsing: "And what is that?"
Seward: "That it is not there!"
Helsing: "That is good logic, so far as it goes"
- "Is it possible love is but all objective or all subjective?"
- There is a Dr. Seward's narrator sound-a-like contest in my bedroom tonight
- "Give me a fulcrum and I shall move the world"
- "Tell us two dry men of science what you see with those so bright eyes"
- Obsessed with these 5 incredibly dense men and Mina literally having every single relevant idea for the last ten chapters
Imagery and dialogue were S-tier. It wasn't as frightening as I had expected bc it never truly felt like the Count posed an imminent physical threat to anyone other than Jonathan at the beginning - which was my favorite part. The horror relied more heavily on fear of god/uncleanness (Nosferatu (2024) prepared me for this). The final showdown was also super anticlimactic.... I WANTED TO SEE THAT VAMPIRE FIIIIIGHT. Oh well.
Here are some quotes and thoughts I had throughout (SPOILERS):
- "I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul."
- "For nothing can be more dreadful than those awful women who were... who are... waiting to suck my blood!"
- It is so mean and so beautiful that Stoker made Dr. Seward one of Lucy's rejected suitors.
- Also, the way Seward and Van Helsing both refer to Lucy's condition as "OUR illness" is kinda romantic, no?
- "He was in a torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain. His very heart was bleeding, and it took all the manhood in him, and there was a royal lot of it, too, to keep from breaking down" okkkk danielle steel!
- WHY ISN'T VAN HELSING TELLING JOHN SHIT?!!!?
- "I want to cut off her head and take out her heart" Oh there he goes....
- Van Helsing: "Are you satisfied now, Friend John?"
Dr. Seward: "I am satisfied that Lucy's body is not in that coffin, but that only proves one thing..."
Helsing: "And what is that?"
Seward: "That it is not there!"
Helsing: "That is good logic, so far as it goes"
- "Is it possible love is but all objective or all subjective?"
- There is a Dr. Seward's narrator sound-a-like contest in my bedroom tonight
- "Give me a fulcrum and I shall move the world"
- "Tell us two dry men of science what you see with those so bright eyes"
- Obsessed with these 5 incredibly dense men and Mina literally having every single relevant idea for the last ten chapters