I honestly thought *Dracula* by Bram Stoker would be gayer.

Friend John, this should have been a short story!*Dracula* is a spooky story which begins with Jonathan Harker, an attorney who travels to Transylvania to help his client, Count Dracula, purchase a home in London. However, Dracula is behaving strangely. Will Jonathan make it out alive?Holy smokes! This book is B-O-R-I-N-G! No wonder there are so many *Dracula* books and movies because almost anyone else could have done it better!The book itself has an interesting format—it is told through variou...

Shockingly, there's not a whole hell of a lot of vampire stuff in this thing.Mostly, it reads like a boring travel blog with a ton of feelings.So much bro love.All the men loved all the women (platonically or otherwise) so much that they were willing to give their lives for whichever lucky lady was Dracula's snack at the time.It was quite the love fest. Frankly, I'm not sure I'm buying it, Stoker.And Dracula?Not since Gary Oldman's beehived old woman portrayal have I been less scared of this cha...

I find Victorian horror so interesting as a microcosm of reaction to social norms of the time, to the buttoned-down and repressed social climate, to the “new moral standards” of the church, and the new questions brought up and hidden away by scientific thought. But under the fabric of late Victorian society lay wide ranges of change; the increased marriage rate and idea of the domestic sphere for women giving way to the New Woman, the upper class vs. lower class divide giving way to a new middle...

Okay, so two things about *Dracula* by Bram Stoker:1. It's genuinely a great, creepy story that totally earns its classic status.2. But, man, everything is repeated *sooooo* much, and you're left wondering why.I imagine Bram Stoker writing this novel went something like this:Seriously, if Stoker had just gotten to the point, *Dracula* would have been way more exciting and suspenseful. We get it, the same mysterious stuff happens night after night. We get that Dracula's got some boxes of dirt. We...

Here we go again, starting a review with absolutely no clue how to rate it. This book, **Dracula** by Bram Stoker, was… quite the experience.I think my professor nailed it when he said, “**Dracula** is either pure genius or utter garbage.” Okay, I’m paraphrasing a bit, but not by much.https://emmareadstoomuch.wordpress.co...Either way, this book is a real accomplishment. You can interpret pretty much ANY THEME you want into this novel: good versus evil, race, religion, gender, science, wealth, p...

Dracula is a truly timeless MASTERPIECE.Believe it or not, I'm still struggling to review this, one of my very favorite novels of all time. I annotated it during my most recent read, hoping it would help when it came time to put my final thoughts together.Alas, what I'm really wrestling with is the idea of little ole' me 'reviewing' a masterpiece. I guess my goal is more to urge people to pick up this amazing piece of world literature and give it a shot, rather than providing some deep analysis ...

What a Leech! London, 1890s. Jonathan Harker returns from Transylvania, and a series of bizarre incidents start taking place all around Whitby soon after. Worst of all, a strange malady seems to be slowly draining the life out of the helpless Lucy. Mina, her most trusted friend, is unable to help her. After some investigations, it’s concluded the deed is the sole work of a mysterious figure of the night, none other than Count Dracula himself. Jonathan Harker, Mina’s fiancé, and Professor Van H...

Dracula: the very name instantly conjures visions of vampires, stakes, garlic, and crucifixes. Yet, when you actually read the novel, it becomes strikingly clear how distorted modern vampire fiction has become. Vampires aren't supposed to be heroes. Centuries ago, people genuinely believed that vampires were real immortals, cursed to eternally quench their thirst with the blood of the living. The very concept of a blood drinker should evoke the image of a villain. And that is precisely what the...

Honestly, I was pretty let down by *Dracula*. It started off strong, especially those parts with Jonathan Harker. But then all the male characters just devolved into these blubbering fanboys worshipping the women, and by the end, I was actively rooting for Dracula to just snack on them all and get it over with. I kept having to put it down and read chapters in between other books – it was a slog – but I finally managed to finish Bram Stoker's *Dracula*.