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finally read Dracula, got kinda boring after that first section, didn't expect the random American cowboy stabbing Dracula

>> No.18787111

>>18787106

i attempted to read it. i dropped it 50 pages in out of boredom

>> No.18787122

>>18787106
Yeah, I wish the whole book was spooky Transylvania woods and haunted castle exploration and 15th century succubus vampire ladies. The opening chapters with Harker are perfect gothic horror, then it takes a nosedive in quality with the newspaper clippings, boring London shit and worst of all, the corny m'lady simping that goes on for about 300 pages.

>> No.18788374

>>18787106
>>18787111
>>18787122
In simple terms, it’s largely similar to found footage films.

>> No.18788735

I'm reading it now and it is so boring

>> No.18788758

>>18787106
Is it really boring, or are people here being filtered?

>> No.18788778

>>18787111
I wrote a paper on it without having read it. I got a B+, so college is a sham

>> No.18788829

This one really disappointed me. There's a section in the middle in which they're hunting for random boxes of Transilvanian dirt that Dracula shipped to different random spots in England. Dreadfully boring and completely unnecessary. Renfield is great though, and the rundown with Mina has a tangible coldness to it that actually really creeps me out. It's definitely worth reading, but more because of cultural impact than actual merit

>> No.18788917

Van Helsing is great. It's one of my favorite books. I think you all need something to fortify yourselves.

>> No.18789681

>>18788735
Throw it in the trash and read Carmilla instead.

>> No.18790056

>>18789681
Ah, finally, someone

>> No.18790071

>>18787106
Bet it was exciting when it came out though

>> No.18790600

>>18789681
Will do thx anon

>> No.18790615

>>18788758
They are brats with the attention span of a MCU fan, of course a victorian gothic novel filtered them!

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Bleh!

>> No.18791119

Laughed to find out there was a gun toting Texan in Dracula, who at one point in the novel quietly departs the room after a serious event only to be return casually after having discharged his weapon at a bat out of a window in London.

I enjoyed it, some slow bits and a rushed ending but other parts more than made up for it, both with characters and events.

>> No.18791212

>>18787106
I always say this, Dracula is a victim of it's own success.

When it was written, vampires were semi- obscure, easteren European folklore that not to many people cared about. What made Dracula so popular was it's fresh take on this legend, and people genuinely curious to see where the story went given the above point.

Now, as a modern reader, being fully aware of what a vampire is from the success of Drac, it comes across as toothless and boring, as all we want to get to is the action. We know why people keep waking up with parallel pin pricks on their necks. Get to the stabbing please.

>> No.18791598

>>18787122
i only enjoyed the harker chapters, then got bored eventually and dropped it

>> No.18791867

>>18787106
>>18791212
a lot of Victorian novels did feature Americans and especially cowboys, people don't seem to get how interconnected the English speaking world was in the 19th Century, even now it stills connected
Historically Britain has always kept its self out of affairs' in mainland Europe(which race exceptions) for the past 300 years its been culturally closer to the western northern western hemisphere then anywhere else

>> No.18791874

>>18787106
>>18791119
a lot of Victorian novels did feature Americans or were sometimes set in America, people don't seem to get how interconnected the English speaking world was in the 19th Century, even now it stills connected
Historically Britain has always kept its self out of affairs' in mainland Europe(with some rare exceptions) for the past 200 years its been culturally closer to the northern western hemisphere then anywhere else

>> No.18792080

>>18789681
Carmilla is a lesbian erotic short story. Dracula has so much more.

>> No.18792086

>>18791212
what's Dracula's origin story in the book?

>> No.18792193

>>18788829
based Count sending his enemies on fool's errands