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It took me more than a year to get through this. Now I know, classics are written in fancy english and extra details and I was willing to put up with it in return for the feeling of "I'VE FINISHED A CLASSIC".
But oh lord, was it a pain to get through. I'm also confused if people actually talked or thought like this in the old days or is it polished by authors? I don't think I went 5 pages without a long rant about friendship and bravery and all the character platonically drooling over each other and be willing to die for each other. Like, it IS cute but I was expected more horrifying stuff from the original DRACULA.
It felt like a story less about the vampire Dracula and more about the power of friendship, men wanting to protect women and women loving being protected by men.
The first half was incredibly tedious and I couldn't get through the women writing 20 pages about how much they love their man and the men writing 20 pages about a tree. I enjoyed the second half more, which had some action, with a considerably high amount of friendship-loyalty-bravery stuff. But still, some action.
I hadn't really consumed any media related to Dracula so I didn't have a lot of expectations except a cool story about Dracula. Even that wasn't fulfilled. The lack of Dracula and the overabundance of platonic love in a book called "Dracula" was painful.
I did enjoy some parts and have an attatchment to old horror legends, so 3 stars it is.
But oh lord, was it a pain to get through. I'm also confused if people actually talked or thought like this in the old days or is it polished by authors? I don't think I went 5 pages without a long rant about friendship and bravery and all the character platonically drooling over each other and be willing to die for each other. Like, it IS cute but I was expected more horrifying stuff from the original DRACULA.
It felt like a story less about the vampire Dracula and more about the power of friendship, men wanting to protect women and women loving being protected by men.
The first half was incredibly tedious and I couldn't get through the women writing 20 pages about how much they love their man and the men writing 20 pages about a tree. I enjoyed the second half more, which had some action, with a considerably high amount of friendship-loyalty-bravery stuff. But still, some action.
I hadn't really consumed any media related to Dracula so I didn't have a lot of expectations except a cool story about Dracula. Even that wasn't fulfilled. The lack of Dracula and the overabundance of platonic love in a book called "Dracula" was painful.
I did enjoy some parts and have an attatchment to old horror legends, so 3 stars it is.