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adventurous
dark
informative
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
*nic nie motywuje do skończenia książki tak bardzo jak kończący się okres próbny subskrypcji na audiobooki*
(Czytane przez audiobooka, po angielsku)
Jak zobaczyłam liczbę stron to podeskcytowałam się, bo miałam nadzieję, że warto będzie przebrnąć przez całe to tomiszcze. Niestety zawiodłam się.
Rozumiem, że głównie Stoker zwrócił uwagę na psychologię kilku głównych postaci, i to mu wyszło. Na pewno znajduje się tutaj wiele materiału dla badaczy literatury, psychologii postaci, historii psychiatrii. Mamy też dużo teorii o samym wampiryźmie.
Niestety pod względem fabuły książkę można byłoby skrócić o połowę i nadal zawierałaby dokładnie tę samą akcję. Nie polecam więc nastawiać się na początku lektury, że doświadczymy ponad 400 stron przepełnionych akcją, walkami, zmienianiem w wampiry.
Poza niespełnionymi oczekiwaniami stworzonymi przez lata oglądania mediów o wampirach, nie mam tej powieści nic do zarzucenia. Polecam jako klasykę i materiał do poznania wierzeń i zwyczajów XIX-wiecznych, nie jako wciągającą powieść grozy.
(Czytane przez audiobooka, po angielsku)
Jak zobaczyłam liczbę stron to podeskcytowałam się, bo miałam nadzieję, że warto będzie przebrnąć przez całe to tomiszcze. Niestety zawiodłam się.
Rozumiem, że głównie Stoker zwrócił uwagę na psychologię kilku głównych postaci, i to mu wyszło. Na pewno znajduje się tutaj wiele materiału dla badaczy literatury, psychologii postaci, historii psychiatrii. Mamy też dużo teorii o samym wampiryźmie.
Niestety pod względem fabuły książkę można byłoby skrócić o połowę i nadal zawierałaby dokładnie tę samą akcję. Nie polecam więc nastawiać się na początku lektury, że doświadczymy ponad 400 stron przepełnionych akcją, walkami, zmienianiem w wampiry.
Poza niespełnionymi oczekiwaniami stworzonymi przez lata oglądania mediów o wampirach, nie mam tej powieści nic do zarzucenia. Polecam jako klasykę i materiał do poznania wierzeń i zwyczajów XIX-wiecznych, nie jako wciągającą powieść grozy.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Violence, Blood, Grief, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail
adventurous
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
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
Content Warnings
Moderate: Gore, Violence
adventurous
dark
funny
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-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
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Not much on vampires, which surprised me. Overall, I thought this book was fine. I found several parts to be boring though I did like the background information and some of the worldbuilding. I found the pacing to be too slow at times.
Not much on vampires, which surprised me. Overall, I thought this book was fine. I found several parts to be boring though I did like the background information and some of the worldbuilding. I found the pacing to be too slow at times.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Misogyny, Sexism, Violence
Minor: Animal death, Child death, Antisemitism
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I this the fact the format of this book is mainly epistula, (letters, telegrams, diaries etc.), makes it slightly difficult for me i know this is my issue but something in sate regardless.
The story and characters are very good.
The story and characters are very good.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Violence
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Child abuse
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
this is my opinion.
honestly, this book was meh. it's an oldie, so obviously a lot of its tropes that USED to be cool and revolutionary are now overplayed. the language is cool and i like the letter-based storytelling.
but besides that, this book is like weirdly misogynistic and dracula's closeted, like "the closet is glass and i know what you are boy kiss- i mean, boy blood sucker" closeted. like why is he so obsessed, bro coulda just killed jonathan 😭😭 also every woman in this book is written to be weak and lucy is sexualized. 19th century L
honestly, this book was meh. it's an oldie, so obviously a lot of its tropes that USED to be cool and revolutionary are now overplayed. the language is cool and i like the letter-based storytelling.
but besides that, this book is like weirdly misogynistic and dracula's closeted, like "the closet is glass and i know what you are boy kiss- i mean, boy blood sucker" closeted. like why is he so obsessed, bro coulda just killed jonathan 😭😭 also every woman in this book is written to be weak and lucy is sexualized. 19th century L
Content Warnings
Graphic: Biphobia, Confinement, Homophobia, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
watched dracula (1931) for the very first time, and the script wasn't all that to my liking (i did actually enjoy the film, though it wasn't my favorite), so all i could think about was how much i wanted to finally read this damn book. and now, here i am. hello, 2025. god, it took a while for me to finish this. but i did it, i got through it, even if it felt like a drag sometimes. it was extremely slow, and written in the way i'm not really used to. but i enjoyed it, overall. i would have to read it at some point anyway, otherwise i would continue feeling like a fake vampire lover.
i found the novel surprising, most of all. it was what i expected, but also not at all. it was a very interesting read, that's for sure. especially the entire concept of ignorance being the thing that kills. there were so many people who were treated less human than dracula, the vampire himself.
i found the novel surprising, most of all. it was what i expected, but also not at all. it was a very interesting read, that's for sure. especially the entire concept of ignorance being the thing that kills. there were so many people who were treated less human than dracula, the vampire himself.
the one character that made me feel the most emotions was probably lucy. i thought mina would be at the center of it all, and she was, but it was lucy as well, for a good portion of the novel. i did not care about count dracula as a character (he was more of a concept, really, a boogeyman) all that much, but mina and lucy were everything to me. i laughed with them, i cried for both of them. poor lucy especially brought me so much heartbreak. the fact that she died before she was even twenty is heart wrenching. she was younger than me when she had to suffer her every waking moment, barely able to wake up, when her mother died in her arms as they both slept, when she passed herself. oh, my poor lucy. but i loved jonathan harker as well, of course (he was so real for wanting to get the recipes of every single dish he's tried on his "travels"). i cared about him a whole lot, especially when he was talking about mina and how much he adored her. will he ever be able to make a simple round trip and get a recipe for his beloved? i wish i could know. and, look, i get the appeal of mina and dracula as a pairing, same with jonathan and dracula, but can we talk about mina and jonathan being one of the healthiest and loveliest couples in all of classical literature as well? because i loved them, i loved them a lot. i also loved how arthur, jack and quincy all got along so well, and even admired each other, despite the fact they all wanted to marry lucy. they all seemed to adore one another, and there was none of that traditional loathing you would usually expect in a dynamic like this. that brings me to the point i'm trying to make here. they all should've dated each other. here. i think polyamory would have helped them. helped, not fixed, because they were already perfect.
and lucy and mina? mina mentioning how pretty lucy was as she slept? 🏳️🌈 romance was the best part of the novel actually. friendship and romance. and the tragedy of it all.
and lucy and mina? mina mentioning how pretty lucy was as she slept? 🏳️🌈 romance was the best part of the novel actually. friendship and romance. and the tragedy of it all.
also, dracula was bisexual. that's all i have to say, really.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Murder
Moderate: Sexism, Violence, Antisemitism, Death of parent
Minor: Animal death, Child death
dark
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
"Dracula" is a horror story about society in Victorian England, the fight between good and evil, as well as the first vampire novel.
Despite its notoriety and its important literary role, it thoroughly disappointed me.
The first 100 pages are diary entries by one of the main characters, Jonathan Harker. These entries gave me hope for the upcoming 400 pages simply because they were interesting and well-written. Harker's journey of growing suspicious of Count Dracula was exactly what I had expected of this book.
But when the perspectives start to be switched up, the entire story grows more and more boring.
Stoker describes in excruciating detail how the characters tell each other what they're going to do, why, and how. The constant change of narrator makes it hard to follow the story, and by the halfway point, the entire plot sags. Although the format of telling a story only through letters, telegrams, and diary entries appealed to me, it simply wasn't done well. By the end, I would have been glad to be bitten by Dracula myself.
What made this format even more unbelievable was how the characters told the story. I simply cannot believe that one would be able to remember entire pages of dialogue till the evening to write them down in their exact wording.
The passages that were written in a kind of local 'dialect' were horrible and amounted to much guesswork on my part as to what the characters were talking about.
Van Helsing as such was a funny character, but his constant rants about truly anything made it hard to follow him.
What frustrated me to no end was Van Helsing's and Dr. Sewards' decision to constantly leave people alone who shouldn't be left alone, purely based on previous experiences. Why didn't they learn anything from how the situation with Lucy played out when it came to others later on?
Apart from the memorable beginning and end, the only thing that redeemed this book was the truly loving and caring relationship between all of the main characters. The love that Mina and Jonathan held for each other was incredibly emotional and moving, especially considering the epilogue.
Thematically, the ideas of sexuality, horror, and danger are interesting and give much room to interpret, so it's understandable that they're still relevant in today's society, but Stoker just wasn't able to execute them well.
Despite its notoriety and its important literary role, it thoroughly disappointed me.
The first 100 pages are diary entries by one of the main characters, Jonathan Harker. These entries gave me hope for the upcoming 400 pages simply because they were interesting and well-written. Harker's journey of growing suspicious of Count Dracula was exactly what I had expected of this book.
But when the perspectives start to be switched up, the entire story grows more and more boring.
Stoker describes in excruciating detail how the characters tell each other what they're going to do, why, and how. The constant change of narrator makes it hard to follow the story, and by the halfway point, the entire plot sags. Although the format of telling a story only through letters, telegrams, and diary entries appealed to me, it simply wasn't done well. By the end, I would have been glad to be bitten by Dracula myself.
What made this format even more unbelievable was how the characters told the story. I simply cannot believe that one would be able to remember entire pages of dialogue till the evening to write them down in their exact wording.
The passages that were written in a kind of local 'dialect' were horrible and amounted to much guesswork on my part as to what the characters were talking about.
Van Helsing as such was a funny character, but his constant rants about truly anything made it hard to follow him.
What frustrated me to no end was Van Helsing's and Dr. Sewards' decision to constantly leave people alone who shouldn't be left alone, purely based on previous experiences. Why didn't they learn anything from how the situation with Lucy played out when it came to others later on?
Apart from the memorable beginning and end, the only thing that redeemed this book was the truly loving and caring relationship between all of the main characters. The love that Mina and Jonathan held for each other was incredibly emotional and moving, especially considering the epilogue.
Thematically, the ideas of sexuality, horror, and danger are interesting and give much room to interpret, so it's understandable that they're still relevant in today's society, but Stoker just wasn't able to execute them well.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Violence, Blood
Minor: Suicidal thoughts
adventurous
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Child death, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Blood, Grief, Injury/Injury detail