DRACULA / My Most Wishy-Washy Book Review Ever! Bram Stoker (spoiler free)

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@readinsteadbyjake 10 ай бұрын

I’m surprised Brian didn’t care for the way the book is structured. The journal entries and letters made Dracula all the more eerie to me. One of my favorite classics!

@newhorizons1 10 ай бұрын

I love Dracula. Ive reread this novel many times. Its very diffrent to how people expect it to be. I live in the UK. North East coast. Only a few miles away from Whitby, where part of Dracula is set. So ive been around this tale my whole life. Excellent review.

@nightmarishcompositions4536 10 ай бұрын

Dracula was the first horror book I ever read and it’s what made me a huge fan of the genre. So my love for it might be a bit biased lol. I love Dracula in just about everything he appears in. The old movies, Castlevania, Hellsing, Vampire Hunter D, etc.

@Koooles Ай бұрын

I have to agree with you. I think I read 100 pages or so in first sitting, the opening really captured me, even while knowing the story. Then the entire middle portion became kind of a slog, it took me around a month of forcing myself to read it. Finally, the ending flew by. It seemed like the whole ending section was put in 20 pages or so. I wish the middle portion had several chapters less and the end section few more and maybe a bigger build up to the finale. It was almost... Anticlimactic.

@dustinneely 10 ай бұрын

I read this in October 2023. It was okay. Stephen King's "Carrie" used the same style of storytelling as "Dracula". That's one of the reasons I didn't like "Carrie". I don't like journal entries and news clippings telling the story.

@johnkeenan1829 10 ай бұрын

I reread this for October and enjoyed it quite a bit. But there are a couple things that bothered me. For instance, who are the three women in the castle? Obviously they are his victims but where did they come from? What are their back stories? Do they represent the weird sisters from MacBeth? Also, how does Van Helsing know so much about vampirism? Where did he get his knowledge? Now you're gonna have to read Hitler Vs. Dracula. Fun, fun, fun.

@NamasteBbooktube 10 ай бұрын

'Dracula' begins really strong, Jonathan Harker's journal is amazing. But I agree it kind of loses steam as we are introduced to other characters, I don't know why. I never finished it 😂

@Koooles Ай бұрын

I think it just needed several chapters removed or shortened. On paper, it seems like that portion should be fine, there is a lot of detective stuff. But once I had to read it... I just found myself almost zoning out. I think there also were a lot of repetitiveness, at some point it was like 80 or so pages of them just going though the places, getting adress, going in, repeat, where nothing that new was learnt.

@m.j.vazquez4720 2 ай бұрын

have you had a chance to check out The Gothic Chronicles Collection edition ?

@tombknivesx2804 10 ай бұрын

I do love vampires 😊

@Tim_with_Tomes_and_Tales 10 ай бұрын

Brian, I understand your feelings towards Dracula. I know some people would like to give it a pass on some of the drawbacks it had because of the time it was written. Well, let's compare it to one of Stoker's contemporaries, H G Wells. The War of the Worlds came out between 1895 & 1897 as well. I believe TWOTW is the more frightening of the two because of the writing style employed. Okay, but Dracula shocked people because of the sexuality in it. Well, Carmilla predated Dracula by at least a decade, and the lesbian sexual undertones in that book are even more shocking, in my opinion. I like your review and agree that Dracula does start off well. It just meanders into stiff upper lip Victorian principles when it should have been more emotional, and I blame it on the writing style.

@jmch6359 4 ай бұрын

Dracula is far and away the most readable thing Stoker wrote. His prose in other books is pretty turgid. Surprised the reviewer did not like the book much. I re-read it often, find more in it all the time. It's certainly much better than Salem's Lot. A thrilling yarn, and much more fun than Shelley's Frankenstein!

@nickfoster9350 9 ай бұрын

The format in which this story is told is called "epistolary."

@ChrisJohnson-pr9jq 10 ай бұрын

I own this but never got round to reading it. Similarly Lovecraft and Oscar Wilde. Need to experience them because they have influenced a million author's,,, just haven't found the time, because I've been reading all the modern author's who were influenced by stuff like this 😂 need to rectify that forthwith 🤘

@torbennielsen7006 10 ай бұрын

I read it years ago. It definitely haven't aged well. Especially if you have read high fantasy like dungeon and dragons book. At least that's how i see it.

@Sliceoflife-5 10 ай бұрын

Don’t be so hard on yourself, you’ve done far more wishy-washy reviews than this! I kid, great job as usual, I found the same as you, great start, then…

@Thevitamindealer 10 ай бұрын

Is the writing style kind of lovecraftian? Sounds like it might be

@إسماعيلسعيد-خ8ذ 10 ай бұрын

Hello Brian! Brilliant video. MAGYAR is pronounced in a very similar way to MAJOR. It means ,as you know , HUNGARIAN. Thank you

@jobuckley2999 10 ай бұрын

I would like to see a video of books you hated. I mean hated. Are there any? I think because you are an author you know how difficult it is to write a novel so you are far too kind.