Dracula!

[Pyar]

I just started reading Dracula (Bram Stoker) a few days ago and so far it is really good. And it is very different than anything I've read before. I mean I've read books that are written in diary form but this is the first one where it is actually very good in keeping the suspense and mysteriousness in place. I really like how personalness of the diaries too. Frankenstein is one of my favourite books and it was a little similar in this aspect also (it had letters in it). I just read The Confessions of Max Tivoli (excellent book!) and that also was in a diary type format. But I'm still not completely sold on this type of style for novels though. I guess I don't like being dependent on the person writing the diary for whats going on in the story.

[Highlander II]

I read Dracula and was bored out of my skull. It just seemed to drag on and on and on...

I found 'Frankenstein' to be far more fascinating, personally.

[j. d. worthington]

I felt each lagged a little in spots, but not that badly; and I'd still put Dracula rather high on the list of successful horror novels, artistically speaking....

On the epistolary technique... that one I'll get into in a later post....

[Lobolover]

Hmm.Im actualy a bit tingly about reading the popular favourites.I prefer the lesser known stuff-there are alot of gems there-whereas im afraid of what might atract the GENERAL public-not saying I wont read this,though.

[Connavar]

I like any good horror story specially those with vamps but when i read it was in the epistolary technique i thought i will wait a couple more years before i will read this Dracula....

[Nesacat]

Am personally quite fond of Dracula though it does tend to drag in parts and you could quite safely skip some bits and go along if that was what you wished. I'll admit I did that when I read it the very first time, being all excited about finding out what happened next and next and next until the end.

However, I've had occasion to read the book many times since and have come to like the way it is written and now read it through without skipping along. It's an old book, written in a style not much used now and is perhaps not as swift or exciting as many vampire books today.

But still, it has its place in the history of vampire literature and opened many doors of interest to this realm.