Book Review: Dracula
As promised, I'm doing my Dracula review. Dracula is written by Bram Stoker, just so you know XD
Lesse, the plot is fairly straightforward. Jonathon Harker goes to Transylvania to talk to Count Dracula about his moving to England to fulfil Dracula's dreams as an anglophile. He is 'encouraged' to stay for about 3 months, and during that time, poor Harker nighs on losing his sanity because of all the creepy occurances. Eg: Dracula has no reflection; 3 sexy ladies devils try to suck his blood; mothers come running up to the castle screaming for their children who have been eaten. At the same time, Harker's fiancee, Mina, is talking to her friend Lucy who is also getting married to Arthur... sorry can't remember his last name. After Harker's estimated date of arrival comes, but with a lack of Harker, strange things start to happen in England. Lucy starts sleepwalking, much to Mina's fear, and also starts to become very sick and seems anaemic. The doctor (whose name I can't remember) has an old acquaintance, Van Helsing, who offers to come help out. Van Helsing keeps offering wards for devils as treatment for Lucy, but in the end she 'dies'. Then, children start disappearing and coming back in the middle of the night with severe blood loss. Van Helsing attributes this to Lucy who has become a vampire. After stabbing her with a stake and decapitating her, the group sets out to kill Dracula. And... I think I've spoiled enough of the book, so onto good points bad points.
This book is amazingly well told. It's told in journal entries and newspaper clippings. It's really amazing because all the characters have at least 2 journal entries, and every character has their own writing style. Stoker does an amazing job! I also like the fact that the journals make it seem really personal, and so things like Lucy's passing into shadow were really... not so much scary, but knucklebiting. It's the sort of dramatic irony of it, I guess.
I guess what I didn't like about it was that for all his being the villain whatnot, half the time Dracula wasn't even in the novel. It was like seeing video footage of the effects of a tidal wave without seeing the tidal wave.
This book is fairly good, and I rank it as cake (not chocolate cake, which is highest ranking), and I give it a 7/10. I reckon the most interesting character is definitely Van Helsing, but the Van Helsing movie kind of spoiled his character. *cry*
Lesse, the plot is fairly straightforward. Jonathon Harker goes to Transylvania to talk to Count Dracula about his moving to England to fulfil Dracula's dreams as an anglophile. He is 'encouraged' to stay for about 3 months, and during that time, poor Harker nighs on losing his sanity because of all the creepy occurances. Eg: Dracula has no reflection; 3 sexy ladies devils try to suck his blood; mothers come running up to the castle screaming for their children who have been eaten. At the same time, Harker's fiancee, Mina, is talking to her friend Lucy who is also getting married to Arthur... sorry can't remember his last name. After Harker's estimated date of arrival comes, but with a lack of Harker, strange things start to happen in England. Lucy starts sleepwalking, much to Mina's fear, and also starts to become very sick and seems anaemic. The doctor (whose name I can't remember) has an old acquaintance, Van Helsing, who offers to come help out. Van Helsing keeps offering wards for devils as treatment for Lucy, but in the end she 'dies'. Then, children start disappearing and coming back in the middle of the night with severe blood loss. Van Helsing attributes this to Lucy who has become a vampire. After stabbing her with a stake and decapitating her, the group sets out to kill Dracula. And... I think I've spoiled enough of the book, so onto good points bad points.
This book is amazingly well told. It's told in journal entries and newspaper clippings. It's really amazing because all the characters have at least 2 journal entries, and every character has their own writing style. Stoker does an amazing job! I also like the fact that the journals make it seem really personal, and so things like Lucy's passing into shadow were really... not so much scary, but knucklebiting. It's the sort of dramatic irony of it, I guess.
I guess what I didn't like about it was that for all his being the villain whatnot, half the time Dracula wasn't even in the novel. It was like seeing video footage of the effects of a tidal wave without seeing the tidal wave.
This book is fairly good, and I rank it as cake (not chocolate cake, which is highest ranking), and I give it a 7/10. I reckon the most interesting character is definitely Van Helsing, but the Van Helsing movie kind of spoiled his character. *cry*