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Title: Dracula by Bram Stoker, Leonard Wolf ISBN: 0-451-52337-7 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4
Rating: 5
Summary: Seductive
Comment: This book is filled with sublime seduction, mingled with pure horror! Dracula is not just evil, but enticing which is what makes this book work so well, making it the classic that it is.
The novel approach to telling the story draws the reader in, playing on the emotions and psyche of the reader on many different levels.
There's a repulsive appeal to Dracula that gives the story its real punch, something that Anne Rice seems to have grasped and embodied in Lestat!
Forget all those B Movies - go to the source! It will be an experience that only Stoker could evoke!
Rating: 3
Summary: Never Watch a Movie Based on A Novel
Comment: Dracula is a book tucked into the library of our culture's soul. It brought light to darker worlds and different lifestyles. Abraham Stoker, an advocate of censorship in his time, would have been shocked at today's perception of sexuality in his novel. Dracula was Stoker's masterpiece, but the work itself is somewhat flawed. The flow is meandering and the characters are static. It is best to read this book as a means of better understanding the modern mind and the affect the myth of vampires has had on it. No film portrayal has capture the true feel of this book. At his best, Stoker presents everyday people thrust into bizarre and harrowing circumstances that touch on a tapestry of dark beauty that causes the spine to ache as much as throb.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Creature of the Night
Comment: I read Dracula by Bram Stoker. I thought this was a very good book. I think I enjoyed it so much because of the mysteriousness and horror of the book. I also enjoy reading classics. The way that Bram Stoker wrote this book was just very original and kept me intrigued.
Jonathon Harker travels to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula. There he finds that Dracula is no ordinary man, but a vampire. He discovers that he is a prisoner in Dracula's castle, " But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I had explored further doors, doors, doors, everywhere and all locked and bolted. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am its prisoner!" Harker then decides to try to escape. Meanwhile, in England, his fiancé Mina Harker and friend Lucy begin to have encounters with Dracula not knowing what or who he is. Lucy is attacked by Dracula and later dies. Jonathon Harker returns and him and friends begin to discover more about Dracula. Dracula then possesses Mina. The men find that Dracula has come to England with boxes of soil from his homeland, and sleeping in them is the only way he can survive. They destroy the boxes, making Dracula return to Transylvania and they track him there. They then kill him and save all the people that were possessed by him. I thought that this story was extremely compelling and it kept my attention very well.In this book, I got to know each character very well. Each character has there own unique personality and characteristics. One of the reasons I think this book is so good is because each character is so unique from the others and they are so believable. The character that I liked the most and that I found most memorable Professor Van Helsing. He is one of the only characters that understands what they are fighting against and knows Vampire folklore so that he can defeat Dracula, "to rid the earth of this terrible monster we must have all the knowledge and all of the help we can get." Because of this knowledge he becomes the leader of the group and is one of the main characters towards the end of the book. The author really makes you care about the characters because of the way he wrote this book. He presents the book in the form of diaries and letters. Therefore the reader really understands how the character is feeling and the experiences they are going through.
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Title: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Diane Johnson 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 by Robert Louis Stevenson ISBN: 0486266885 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: February, 1991 List Price(USD): $1.00 |
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Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Jeffrey Eugenides ISBN: 0375751513 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne ISBN: 0812550927 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: October, 1995 List Price(USD): $3.99 |
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Title: The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells ISBN: 0486270718 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: February, 1992 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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