/lit/ - Literature

>is that... a trio of naked ladies who want to have sex with me? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH I'M GOING INSAAAAAANE SAVE ME DR. VAN HELSING

>>19062688
a page turner until the inexplicable last epistolary bits, couldn't finish it

200 pages too long.

>>19062715
basically this

It’s like the original Call of the Crocodile. Fantastic horror book.

It's great, Stoker wrote some great novels.

Read MP Shiel too.

>Film
All probably pretty good; it's a hard novel to adapt.

>>19062715
Finally, a book that recognizes mental illness as a std

>>19064032
That’s honestly a pretty good way to sum it up. I read Dracula years ago and loved it.

I've tried reading this book like half a dozen times in my life and literally nothing happens.
I usually like slow-burning books that build atmosphere, but holy fuck, when you're 1/3 through the book and there is still no vampire shit yet, that's kind of unforgivable.

One of my favorites. It's also one of the few books that actually made me feel any fear. The tension in the first part (Harker's Journal) is really well crafted imo. It helps that I was never sure how it would end due to the fuck ton of varying adaptations.

I also love the image of a bunch of muscly chads beating the shit out of the old fuck.

>>19064105
Kill yourself plotfag

>>19064211
I literally just said in that post that I don't really care about plot. But you're a /lit/ poster, so I wouldn't expect you to know how to read.

>>19064032
This

>>19062688
Dracula is comfy

Bram Stoker was actually a really good writer.
Also try reading his short stories, and his other novels.
‘Dracula’ was one of those instances were I read a “classic” novel, and actually understood why it was considered a classic.
In contrast,
Wilkie Collins Wrote in a similar format, but some of the journal excerpts in ‘The Moonstone’ were just horrendously boring to read.
‘Frankenstein’ had a wonderful romantic opening, but then turned into a rambling story with moral blabbering by some atrocious feminist who couldn’t expound complex thought.

>>19062688
it's underrated. just read it a year or so ago and i really wanted to get an old school mechanical watch but i have to resist the urge to consoom stupid shit

I'm reading it now. Stop stalking me, desu.

It's mostly boring. 50% is Victorian era niceties. 40% is mundane scene descriptions and 10% is actual plot.

>>19062688
It's a cozy ass book. By the time Van Helsing comes in its like some scooby doo, lord of the rings shit

>>19066333
>>19064211

>>19062688
Loved the novel, a true classic
>>19062799
It's all epistolary though?

>>19062688
>which film adpatatino is most accurate to the source material, specifically in terms of Count Dracula as a character?

The first part of the 1992 film when Dracula is old, then it goes down really really quick. Overall maybe Christopher Lee's Dracula for including his more savage side or Bela Lugosi for the exotic eastern european vibe, but they're still too sexy and suave

>>19062688
Bad cover, OP.
I'll fix that for you.

>>19062715
Suffer not the Vampwhore.
>>19066333
Once it gets to Mina everything is boring. England is boring.

>>19066333
>50% is Victorian era niceties. 40% is mundane scene descriptions and 10% is actual plot
you say that like it's a bad thing