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 Didn't know he was that scary September 3, 2010
Cidney Kent
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
See what happens when you don't read the classic first? This guy is really ugly and evil, not like the vamp of today. I think I like the classic better.
Should have read years ago! August 12, 2010
Michelle Storey (PHOENIX, AZ, US)
As a bibliophile I should have read this a looooong time ago! As it was a free book I downloaded it for Kindle. Once I started I couldn't put it down! Good stuff!
 Different than I expected August 2, 2010
Jeffrey Van Wagoner (Gilbert, AZ USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My only experience with Dracula has been with movies, so my expectations were entirely different. I found the novel very enjoyable and found the style to be interesting; it gave me a way to see the story from several points of view. I had expected more of the story to take place in Dracula's castle instead of most of it taking place in London.
This is the first novel that I read on my kindle and I have already started reading several other books on it. It is a good way to go through books and is easy on the eyes.
This free edition is basically text with no table of contents or links, but for a novel that is fine with me. The Kindle search function allowed me to do a search for `chapter' and I was able to create my own table of contents. I always like to know roughly how long a chapter is when I read and this was a very simple way to find out.
enjoy a classic July 30, 2010
F. Thompson (georgia)
Although I've read a number of vampire books (some of Laurell Hamilton's, 'Salems Lot, Twilight, Vampire Diaries, LeStat, etc.), I had never read "the original". I enjoyed the different perspectives in the book and even the dialogue (although occasionally it was hard to know what some of the more archaic phrases meant at first). Enjoy a good read (plus, it's FREE!)
Digitial diaries, haunted expansions, and three little women so seemingly helpless July 30, 2010
TastyBabySyndrome ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wireless - I suppose that is what I should comment on first. The wireless words of an undead "man" as he looks into the eyes of something he thought lost forver. The screen loves this book as do I and, honestly, I cannot fault it in the least. I can take this story into the most horrible of places for atmosphere, reading it by its own light in th emidst of a catacomb of horrible things. Once a year we read to the dead anyhow and, finding solace in that, I take along books like these. The person i read to out there liked horror in their life so, with this Kindle, I can strike up the mood and strike up the print, knowing this makes the most of the book.
As far as the book, I figure most know it is some way. Mina, Johnny-boy Harker, Van Helsing, The HMS (it should have been called dead bodies), land ownership, Tesla Coils; there are so many visuals that people already have. The beauty of this book is not just in the way that people have seen it, however, but it the way that you see it when you read it. Knowing the vampire's desolation (in the spoof of Nosferatu, they talk about the empty table as one of the saddest scenes ever) and his eternal drive, not to mention the castle that seems like a prison to his heart. That, and the way that Mina and her friend fall into this, and the way Abraham sort of enters the story with "friends." It is beautiful and it is easy to see why it has lasted; the print builds worlds that can only be imagined by the shining screen.
Am I a fan of this? Absolutely. Still, this does not blind me to good or bad works. That is why I press for people to read this book, because the versions they have seen are not the printed testimonies that work like a Diary. I like the electronics here, too, because the diary component is something we can relate to in the electronic world. It seems to make it more frightening in a way, giving it a grip that could be all-the-more real.
Buy it - it will love you for it.
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