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Nov 19, 2015Chickenzilla rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I LOVE THIS BOOK!! Although it seems cliché in some parts, you have to remember that Dracula invented cliché horror stuff. Also, I am not a horror person, but this book is deliciously creepy (though I couldn't read it at night ;)), and does a wonderful job capturing the diabolical genius of its antagonist. Sometimes, you have to wade through sermon-like soliloquies, and sexist stuff, but that's kind of a given for Victorian fiction. I also enjoy the way that Stoker transitions from one perspective to another, by making several chronologically ordered documents. Overall a fascinating book, with an innovative style, and compelling characters. I just wish that they told some of the story from Quincey Morris, or Lord Godalming's perspective. By the way, Dracula is actually the nickname for a Wallachian noble named Vlad III Tepes, brother to Radu Bey. Not kidding. And when archeologists dug up his grave, they just found horse bones...