Hey Rosie... I promised to tell you how I liked "Dracula". Only about halfway through but I'm quite enjoying it. It's not that scary yet, either. A couple nervous moments, certainly, and some interesting bits... very clever style. It's a - what's the word for a book written in the form of diary entries or letters? And that delightful old language.
I'll let you know if my opinion changes but I think I'm going to have to make you check it out of the library. It's so nice to have a genuinely evil vampire, modern vampires are all just Freudian symbols and nonsense like that.
"Hey Rosie... I promised to tell you how I liked "Dracula". Only about halfway through but I'm quite enjoying it. It's not that scary yet, either. A couple nervous moments, certainly, and some interesting bits... very clever style. It's a - what's the word for a book written in the form of diary entries or letters? And that delightful old language."
The old language is neat :) I don't remember the word for the letter style--is it "epistolary", maybe? My Dracula Cliff's Notes says Stoker probably borrowed the style from Wilkie Collins' mystery novel "The Woman in White".
You didn't think Castle Dracula was scary, though? I thought it was creepy--but in a cool way :) One of the things I really like about "Dracula" is the settings--Transylvania/Castle Dracula on the one hand and 19th-century London on the other.
"I'll let you know if my opinion changes but I think I'm going to have to make you check it out of the library. It's so nice to have a genuinely evil vampire, modern vampires are all just Freudian symbols and nonsense like that."
That's something I like about it, too, and why I prefer Stoker to Anne Rice. Stephen King's "'Salem's Lot" is also really, really good along those lines--he basically takes Stoker's plot but moves it to the late 20th century.