Bramstokers Dracula :the book anyone read it? Is it good?

[RamblingRosieLee]

I've seen the film, but is the book as good? Does it have the love interest?

The book is better. It doesn't have the love interest but is much scarier.

There is also a really good audible version read by Alan Cummings.

It does have the love story. I presume you mean Mina?

And yes, it's very good!

It is very good, but quite episodic in nature; some sections are more interesting and/or gripping than others. Well worth a read, though, as it's far more interesting than any film adaptation.

its excellent! I did it as part of my English Lit degree in the 90s, but haven’t read it since!! I think I need to revisit.

Of course it does, it is written in letters between them?

It's one of my all time favourites so I'd recommend!

Definitely worth reading. It’s a classic. It’s overly long in my view. A bit repetitive. But it’s great, because you recognise all the gothic tropes and see how they’ve been copied and adapted in more recent fiction.

Yes, but despite the director saying the film is based on the book, unlike every other vampire film, the book doesn’t read like a love story.

I did enjoy both the film and the book.

I have read the book but not seen the film. I liked the book but thought the ending was an anticlimax.

Enjoyed the book definitely worth a read

Read it eons ago. It is a great book- might have to dig it out.

Yes, it is very good, one of my favourite books.

I read it when I was 16 and ill in bed with glandular fever - it absolutely terrified me and stays with me to this day! The opening scene alone ... brrrrr! Read it! X

It's quite dense in places and quite slow in others, but it's SO scary and well-written that I actually slept with the lights on for a couple of nights, and I was well into my thirties when I read it.

Spoiler alert! You thought the ending was an anti climax when they are racing in carriages one group trying to save Dracula and one group trying to stake him, all against the clock as the sun goes down?! You are a tough reviewer!

Absolutely brilliant: a classic, and a readable one at that.

The book has been one of my favourites since I was a teen. It’s a great book and very rereadable

I don't think I've seen the film but I love the book. Its very atmospheric and reminds me a bit of mystery novels.

One of my favourite books.

I reread it recently - it starts off brilliant, really atmospheric and scary. I've been listening to the Down to Sleep podcast episodes before bed but tbh I've had to give Dracula a rest because i end up with terribly restless dreams after listening to the Transsylvania chapters in the beginning. However IMO it becomes very dull and dreary when all the avengers have assembled, with pages of van Helsing preaching about what a fine women Mina is and how glad they should be to have her amongst them, and Mina countering with what fine, good, men they all are and how any woman should be ecstatic about aiding such strong, handsome specimens of maleness. There is so much of it. A lot of moaning and navel-gazing. Actually I gave up my reread and didn't get to the more thrilling bits at the end, maybe I should pick it up again.

I think Bram Stoker had some issues. That said, it's worth giving a go! The good bits are genuinely good.

Strangely, I've just reread it in the last week!

I love it. It's a proper "Gothic" novel, and was part of a new fashion to write stories from the view point of multiple characters (Wilkie Collins started this trend).

It is very much of its time, but can still give me goosebumps. Especially when you think that Bran Stoker only chanced upon the name "Dracula" when he was visiting Whitby, and so many of the tropes we associate with vampires (no reflection, Nosferatu) were invented by Stoker.
There are so many little details that show Stoker really did know the places he was writing about.

Although, the chances of the blood transfusions doing anything but killing Lucy, were highly remote!

It's fabulous

I'm very tempted thank you

Hated it.