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Title: Bram Stoker's Dracula (CBC Stage) by Bram Stoker, Lorne Greene, Alan King, Lister Sinclair, Mavor Moore ISBN: 1-894003-24-1 Publisher: Scenario Productions Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (274 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An entertaining work of literature.
Comment: Everyone, no exception, knows about Dracula. Almost everyone can relate the names Mina, Lucy, and Van Helsing to Dracula. This is the original work where all these characters were created. Basically, the story tells of Dracula (!) who leaves Transylvania for England to find new prey and enter the society of learned men and the modern world.
Stoker's narration style is brilliant, told through journal entries, newspaper clippings, and letters. Though it does slow down a bit in the middle, the general pace is fast and the story is action packed. It is perhaps a little predictable, but what do you expect from a story that's been told and retold so many times. The chilling account of Jonathan Harker's adventures in Dracula's Castle is the best part of the story. The dangers he encounters, the dark, dusty rooms and creaking doors, his discovery that he is a prisoner, his attempts to escape and the Count's unvoiced knowledge of Jonathan's distress alone make the whole book worth reading! What I found makes this book truly wonderful is the beautiful use of language in descriptions of the castle, the Transylvaninan landscape, sunsets and sunrises (as it is a vampire story), storms, the moonlight, etc., and this without slowing down the pace.
The book does have some very scarry moments, but if you're looking purely for horror, blood, and gore you might not be satisfied. I have read many reviews and many complain that it is dull, not as frightening as the movies, too cliched, etc. Remember that what scared people in the 19th century or early 20th may not scare us today, with all our alien movies and violent video games. But this is the book that started the whole Dracula/Vampire tradition. It is due to the *un-dying* merit of this great work of literature that so many others have borrowed Stoker's ideas, changed, and adapted them. After a century of adaptations, ofcourse the original will be different. You must place the book in the context of its time to judge it fairly. Second, put aside what you already know from movies and other books about Dracula and vampires. When that's done, you'll see it is really a very enjoyable and enlightning read.
There is one flaw, however. The characters are too dry. The women are all pure and virtuous and the men all brave and dutiful, and before long they all become one happy family. I know these were Victorian times but I still felt they could have had more depth. In any case, the character of the Count and everything else in the book quite makes up for this downfall, and it is not worth taking away a star.
If you are a literary mind, the book has plenty of symbolism, dualism, and other isms to wonder at and analyse. The beauty of prose will add to your pleasure. If you are a Vampires and horror story fanatic, it'll be worth your while to read the original story, but don't expect to be scared out of your wits. In the end, it is at the very least a very enjoyable, thoroughly entertaining and rewarding read for anyone.
Rating: 5
Summary: Bram Stoker's Dracula GREAT BOOK!
Comment: The book that I read on Dracula was the unabridged version and it's not this one. However, I strongly recommend reading Dracula because it really scares you. It is told by a series of notes, journals, diaries, and letters. At first, i thought it was very boring because there's a lot of dialogue and everything is descibed in great detail. Fortunately, that's exactly what kept me hooked on the book. I would not put it down and I would stay up until 1:00 am reading it.So,here's a quick summary. Jonathan Harker travels to Romania to help a strange count buy an estate in Britain. He stays in the count's house only to slowly realize that he was a prisoner. After many horrifing and intimidating experiences as the count's "guest", he decides to enbark in a daring and frightning escape from the castle, to return to his loving fiancee, Mina. However,when Count Dracula is in the city, Jonathan sets out with a band of brave souls to destroy the evil count. There's a lot more in the story because it's 414 pages long. I really reccomend the book because it's 20 times better than the movie. I really think anyone can give it a try, and even though at first it's boring, you should make an effort to read it to get to the really good parts.
Rating: 4
Summary: the blood is the life
Comment: This is the most famous horror story of all. Based on the bloodthirsty Transylvanian ruler Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as the Impaler because of his practice of impaling enemy prisoners-of-war on stakes, "Dracula" is the tale of an evil count who is a vampire. The story has little to do wuth the historical Vlad, but that makes it no less spine-chilling.
This unusual novel is told entirely through diaries and letters of the main characters. Count Dracula buys a property in England through Jonathan Harker. The count seems to have a taste for English ladies' blood, and when he goes after Harker's fiancee Mina, she narrowly escapes, though her friend Lucy was not so lucky. Hunted and on the run, Dracula himself escapes back to Transylvania, hotly pursued by Harker, Professor Van Helsing, and others. This chase and its climax culminates in a thrilling show-down!
David Rehak
author of "Love and Madness"
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Title: Frankenstein (Changing Our World) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ISBN: 0553212478 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 June, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover Thrift Editions) by Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0486266885 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 February, 1991 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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