3.82 AVERAGE


Dracula zelf is zeker 4,5/5 waard! Het verhaal is enorm meeslepend. Ook de manier waarop het geschreven is, creëert een aparte sfeer. Het is een samenhangend geheel van brieven en dagboekfragmenten. Zo beleef je het verhaal uit het standpunt van alle personages. Dit zorgt er voor dat je al snel een band met hen opbouwt.

De short stories uit Dracula’s Guest, hoefden er niet bij. Vandaar de uiteindelijke 3/5. ‘t Is dat het gewoon voordeliger was om deze te kopen in de boekenwinkel. One can only spend so much...
adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

Five stars for Dracula, which is genuinely gripping, and told in a way that seems to bridge from the Romantic-type epistolary novel to the modern assembly. Unfortunately, the short stories in the second half of the book, Dracula's guest, abandon any interesting form or plot in favour of a pretty standard setup-middle-payoff which gets pretty tiring after a while. Where Stoker deviates from this, like in 'The Crystal Cup', the result is painfully self-conscious and overwritten, making four stars pretty generous for the collection as a whole.
adventurous dark mysterious medium-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: No
adventurous dark mysterious sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Read this for the Coursera "Fantasy and Science Fiction" course. A little long and verbose, but certainly the best horror/gothic novel I have read.

Read Dracula's Guest for Hog's Head read along 09/09

Will finish Dracula's guest some other time