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I enjoyed NBC’s new Dracula series an inordinate amount. It was a fun, thrilling experience of storytelling and characterization. And it got me thinking that, despite happily watching various adaptations over the years, I’ve never actually read the original novel. What with it being public domain and all, I put the on my tablet and sat back to see how the original stacks up to its adaptations.
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My enjoyment of Dracula nearly mirrored my enjoyment of another great gothic novel, The Phantom of the Opera. In both cases I quite enjoy the first half, but then the incessant histrionic displays of emotion—particularly that between lovers—slowly grind my patience away. The unrealistic and constant gallantry towards the porcelain women, the exclamations of courage and hand gripping and tears. It reminds me of the scene in Lawrence of Arabia when the British official mentions, off-hand, that T.E
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I picked up the award winning Broadway version (Audie Award, Distinguished Achievement in Production, 2013) of this audio book with the Amazon Whispersync technology (get the book for free on Amazon and the audio version is 99 cents) so I am moving between reading to listening to this book. I know this is a classic book and a must read but since I have never been into vampires and werewolfs or horror and the such so I didn't expect to like this book but it hooked me from the start. I can't imagi
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I wanted to read this because it was a classic and I had both the award winning audio book and the ebook linked together on Amazon's Whispersync so once again I switched between reading and listening to this book.
It is a long book but totally kept my attention and interest, which was a bit of a shock to me because in general I don't read horror or books about vampires and the such. It was an enjoyable read. I can only imagine what reading this book was like 100s of years ago. ...more
It is a long book but totally kept my attention and interest, which was a bit of a shock to me because in general I don't read horror or books about vampires and the such. It was an enjoyable read. I can only imagine what reading this book was like 100s of years ago. ...more
Jul 16, 2012
Isabell
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In the last few weeks I read quite a few classics that I found to be of only average quality; meaning classics that I think everybody should read at least once because they have a deeper meaning, but which I probably won’t read/listen to again in the near future. I was prepared for another of those average classics, until I began to listen to the Dracula audiobook. This is one of those classics that can be counted in the category “provides entertainment�, even after more than 200 years this stor
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Jun 08, 2016
Charmaine (CharmySketches)
marked it as to-read
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