Dracula

Paperback, 412 pages

Italiano language

Published Feb. 28, 1997 by Mondadori.

4 stars (9 reviews)

This diary style book by Bram Stoker continues to put fear into the hearts of many who read it. Count Dracula after acquiring land in London near Carfax Abbey is wreaking havoc on innocents. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing recognizes the counts calling card and the hunt to destroy this centuries old vampire begins.

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reviewed Dracula by Bram Stoker

L'horreur est en dehors de ma zone de comfort

4 stars

Copie de critique de Juillet 2017 :

Lire Dracula est pour moi un grand pas en dehors de ma zone de confort. Mes genres littéraires ont tendance à être le fantastique et la science-fiction, le drame classique, et/ou le passage à l'âge adulte, les histoires féministes, etc. Je ne pense pas avoir jamais lu de livre d'horreur, alors que le plus proche serait Rebecca de Du Maurier (qui est gothique, genre partagé par Dracula).

Dracula est également en dehors de ma zone de confort psychologique, car je n'ai jamais été attiré par les vampires et j'ai tendance à éviter les romans où les niveaux possibles de détails gores et sanglants pourraient potentiellement déclencher mon hémophobie (= peur du sang), et en fait, je m'y attendais. Cela se produit avec ce roman, alors que les vampires, dans toutes les variantes, sucent le sang de leurs victimes.

J'ai remarqué qu'à plusieurs reprises, …

reviewed Dracula by Bram Stoker

Bromance e innamoramenti

5 stars

Content warning Spoiler minori

La costruzione di un immaginario

5 stars

Uno dei libri più importanti per la creazione del vampiro come lo conosciamo noi, con tutte le leggende, le credenze e i personaggi iconici ormai di dominio pubblico. Il pregio più grande per me è la qualità della narrazione, che riesce a costruire immagini molto forti che ti si tracciano in testa mentre leggi; sono queste il lascito più prezioso che mi rimane di questo libro.

I heard you like vampires

4 stars

Just a list of thoughts I had as I thought them:

  • Very enjoyable, fast read.
  • A little bit too much of all the characters basically falling in love with each other on first meeting and becoming best friends. A lot of “oh won’t you be my best friend for life now since we’ve been through this together?”
  • Characters are a little dumb in places where they really shouldn’t be. They literally just got done talking about how Dracula can turn into a bat, and then Quincy sees the bats sitting outside the windows staring at them and they don’t think anything more of it when it flies away.
  • Same with how they got done talking about how Dracula can turn into a mist and a control the fog, and Mina goes up to her room and sees the fog coming at her and sees them mist in her room, and …

reviewed Dracula by Bram Stoker (Signet Classics)

A great read, not just for codifying vampire lore, but the way it's built from letters and diaries.

5 stars

The original novel is a great read. Not just for the way it codified modern vampire lore. But for the way it's built entirely out of diary entries, letters, news fragments, telegrams and so on. For the way it shows modern science coming to grips with ancient superstition and figuring out how to deal with it. For showing an early example of a woman participating in her own rescue. And for some of the parts that didn't make it into general pop culture. (Count Dracula spends an awful lot of time in a shipping box.)

In some senses it's the written-word equivalent of the "found footage" horror genre. Except the "sources" are wildly varying. John and Mina write their journals and letters to each other in shorthand. Business letters are of course written formally. Dr. Seward keeps an audio diary on a phonograph. Van Helsing's speech is rendered with every …

reviewed Dracula by Bram Stoker

Even if you think you know Dracula, this still holds up!

4 stars

I had never given classic horror a go before, but this one was a pleasant surprise. The original Dracula story was something I thought I knew, elements like Dracula’s castle and the power possessed by that monster make an appearance here, but despite what you might expect of the original vampire, the book is still filled with great characters and moments that were truly nerve-wracking.

I couldn’t help but read faster and faster at times where the tension raised up, hoping for it to end when it was only getting worse. But its not all bad, there is always hope, and the determination of the characters to defend their loved ones and the future of humanity from the reign of the un-dead, is just great, but a few moments of old English were a little hard to read.

I listened to different audiobooks while reading, which was quite atmospheric too. …

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5 stars