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masterpiece

>> No.20765332

>>20765260
Dracula is the most boring book I have ever read. It's so fucking slow to the point of nothing happening. You feel like they're building for an epic finale and there's talk and talk about what they are going to have to do it. Then kill him in about a page and a half. Terrible novel.

>> No.20765665

>>20765332
What would you recommend that is better?

>> No.20765740

>>20765665
The Beetle by Richard Marsh.

>> No.20765763

>>20765332
Dracula is a victim of it's own success. It's so ubiquitous now that you go in knowing the count is a vampire, whereas it's clearly written to be a mystery.

>> No.20765815

>>20765332
Yeah, but the first part is great: from the beginning to the arrival of the ship Demeter in England.

Peak horror fiction.

>> No.20765842

>>20765763
Same problem with Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Since I knew the general gist of the novel was about a mad scientist who turns himself into a killer, it surprised me that it was told from the perspective of others who eventually figure this out.

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>>20765260

>> No.20766080

>>20765992
The Great God Pan

>> No.20766423

>>20765332
>boring
Don't understand this complaint I found it quite the page turner, I love the characters and no adaptation has done it justice.

>> No.20766426

Horror in books is even more absurd that horror in movies/tv. Like nigga, they just words, how you gonna get scared reading a bunch of letters lmfao

Atleast tv has the audio/visual thing going which is still not excusable

>> No.20766505

>>20766426
It’s called having an imagination and capacity for empathy you dumb fuckhead

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>>20765260
Easily 10/10 kino

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>> No.20766936

>>20765332
Were you filtered?

>> No.20766950

>>20765332
>Zoomer brain can't read book that isn't constant YA action shlock
Many such cases

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>> No.20767041

>>20766923
Any other horror books where vampires are actually scary?

>> No.20768178

>>20765763
THIS is literally the case for the Invisible Man. (And also the island of Dr Moreau). They're great books, but you can skip the first half by just looking at the modern book cover, looking at the title, and you know exactly what the book is about. The Invisible Man was originally a short story where the climax of it was the reveal that he was an invisible man, and HG Wells later extended into a whole book. Well, it's pretty boring in our modern world