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So, I'm reading Bram Stoker's Dracula for the first time... I'm nearly finished. And, I must say, DAYUM this is a creepy book. Despite how old it is, and the fact I'm a 23 year old grown man, this is still some scary stuff. Normally as horror gets older it isn't as scary, but this book is one of the few that are exempt from that rule.

All in all, this is a freakin epic book. Who's with me?

>> No.1094774

I'm a non-white atheist with a culture that's unfamiliar with the Bible, so I think that hampered my enjoyment of it too much for my opinion to be valid or useful to anyone else.

However, I fucking love Renfield as a character.

>> No.1094816

I thought that it was gothic.

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>>1094748

Meh it's ok.
Twilight is better though.

>> No.1094833

I hated Dracula.

The only interesting part was when Harker was first meeting the Count. Then it was all Lucy and Mina being the dumbest bitches ever.
It might have been because I was listening to an audiobook while drawing, but I could not stand those bitches.
I just gave up alltogether and said fuck it.

>> No.1094834

Stoker was a pretty shitty writer. I'm amazed Wilde was actually friends with him, I betcha he snickered and made fun of Stoker behind his back.

>> No.1095803

>>1094834

Wilde was engaged to Florence Balcombe but she broke it off with him to marry Stoker instead. Probably a wise choice, all things considered.

>>1094748

The great thing about "Dracula" is the way that it's basically a closet Irish novel. Stoker was a Protestant civil servant working in Dublin Castle (probably his model for Castle Dracula) and of course "drinking blood" is one way of describing the religious beliefs of Ireland's Roman Catholic majority. Not to mention that the bit where the Count throws a baby to feed his three brides (so they don't eat Harker) looks a lot like Swift's "Modest Proposal". Oh yeah, and not only does Dr Van Helsing have the same first name as the author, have you noticed that his surname is an anagram of "English"? Of course he's presented as Dutch but don't forget that the Irish Protestants revere the Dutch king William of Orange (who came over in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to prevent the Roman Catholic James II from re-igniting the religious wars in Britain).

In other words, like most gothic, it gets its anxiety from buried political anxiety that the author can barely address out loud.

>> No.1095807

>>1094834

Wilde wasn't a great writer himself. I do like his work though.

>> No.1095815

I never finished this book. Interesting story, but FUCK I couldn't stand Stoker's writing style.

>> No.1095817

>>1095815

I think so too.

>> No.1095823

That paragraph where he described the peppered chicken and its ingredients was truly bone chilling.

>> No.1095862

Isn't it GREAT, Op????? i read it a few months ago and LOVED it. it is so intense, Van Helsing is so on top of things
Mina makes things suspenseful at the end especially
Dracula's character is amazingly hyped.
The intro sucks you right in

>> No.1095873

>>1095862
I liked how hardcore Jonathan and Mina were in the book.

Sucked how he was a little bitch in the film, and she didn't take a second thought about ditching his husband and going after the first good looking man-eating monster she found.