I love this book so much 😁

too long but cool i guess

Dracula is a great story, but the fervent typing and note taking of the protagonists feels a little anachronistic to a 21st century reader. It is distracting and gets in the way of the story, though sometimes it adds a sense of urgency which makes the story more immersive and the characters more forsaken and alone, but mostly it’s distracting. The women in the story are all damsels and it’s a little tiresome and thin. The male protagonists all love each other and their predictable unshakable friendship gets a little boring. Still there is no denying or mistaking the unique world that was first created in this book and it is a mysterious and awful world to behold, and may we never find ourselves trapped in such a desperate peril.

New books often keep us from enjoying the old! I could not put this masterpiece down.

Kinda cheesy and wordy. But very atmospheric. Though they were few and far between, the exciting parts (the parts that actually feature Dracula himself) were truly horrifying.

Perfectly fine except for terrible formatting involving caps lock, bold, underline, and strike through on various passages.

A classic novel that’s very heavy to read. Bram Stoker had an interesting set up for his novel by using journal entries and notes and memos as the form of relaying the story. It’s a bit tedious reading a bunch of different perspectives, and some useless scenes by those with heavy accents. Stoker also relentlessly reuses the same descriptive words over and over again. And takes a long time getting to the point of things. I imagine he thought it was to build suspense. Such as with the long journal entries of all the travel. I did immensely enjoy connecting the popular phrases and scenes with the movie. The movie almost did things better and had a stronger climax. This book does seem to be weak in the moments that should have weight.