I recently finished Dracula by Bram Stoker and I kind of liked it. However, there were a few things that I felt didn't drive me to "love" the book. I liked how the story portrayed emotions and detemination while some scenes were also gross. But, the book named "Dracula" had a very few appearances of him. Apart from this, at a point of time (which is basically in the end) I felt so much of planning wasn't even needed I guess. I expected a struggle between Count and his executioners but throughout the book there was no struggle. What do you guys think?
by KooChan_97
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I enjoy it but it’s also pretty ridiculous. I think my favorite is when they decide Dracula has a child mind and can’t deal with modern life. Definitely not what I had expected the first time.
There was tons of struggle, just not physically. The book is like a chess match between a group of men desperately trying to keep first Lucy and then Mina alive, and a supernatural being with few weaknesses. They have to beat him intellectually and with that planning because they have no hope of beating him physically if it comes down to that.
I thought it was brilliant that Dracula never gets a POV in the book and he is only this scary menacing mysterious presence. I found that much creepier. but I also love epistolary novels.
I haven’t read it in a long time (I was super duper into historical vampire lore for a while) but I remember it being pretty meh. Nothing really stuck with me, although it has been 20 years so maybe that’s not fair.
Feel the same, really!
I think that when it was written the devices used to tell the story were probably pretty novel (and are clearly effective); but in many ways it’s just a boy’s own adventure story type of thing, very readable but not really exceptional at all except for its novelty at the time.
I am a fan of the book, and tbh I love that Dracula is more of a phantasm haunting the proceedings and terrorizing the Scooby Gang but we rarely actually see him. I find that far creepier than when they try to make him too human in film adaptations. But is Stoker the most gifted writer on the face of the planet? No, def not. But I love the atmosphere. And I love the characters. And I’m a sucker for an epistolary book.