Dracula, takes a bite out of readers

This is my review of the Dracula novel.. ok so Count Dracula has been welcoming readers into his castle in dark, cold, and bat filled Transylvanian abode for years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years and years now. So by no means is Count Dracula was not in anyway the first vampire in literature, but he is easily by far the most important of the Vampire ones because he is the basis for all of them. The count has flown out, spread the black silky wings like a bat out of Bram Stoker’s classic novel and into slowly deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep deep into our cultural imagination. The vampires of today’s fantasy fiction all owe something to this dark and evil count. But Yet, when contemporary readers turn back to the brilliant Bram Stoker’s original novel, and they might be surprised because, pardon the pun I make, it is easy for reviewers to take a hard sucking bite out of this imperfect horror.

The Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel is not honestly the vampire you might expect expressly if your looking at all the modern Movies and other pop culture interpretations of today’s, and usually they all miss the mark when it comes to the novel’s central character. Even the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula is not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not not NOT AT ALL really Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The original count Dracula is not any kind of or form of romantic hero in anyway, He’s a pure creature of the night, this utter monster, that is driven by his pure and unstoppable hunger for blood and the creatures uncontrolled lust to take what he wants.... the blood of men, women, and children, our life that courses thru our very veins.

And then There are three things that will surprise contemporary readers when they pick up this AMAZING novel to give it a read, The first one is how oh so very little horror there actually really is in the book. And It may seem strange to say it, but the body count is very surprising low. There’s only a few moments of real white-knuckle terror scenes. To which My favorite one is the sea journey Dracula takes to London. During the trip he then proceeds to takes out all of the members of the crew one by one, and you can feel the pure and utter desperation and fear grow with each new entry in the ship’s logs. It’s also surprising how little we see of the vampire. While the book is called "Dracula," the infamous count only makes a few appearances in its pages. But Yes, he is the focus of all of the main characters’ discussions. But beyond some conversations with his English broker Jonathon Harker in the beginning of the book, he is nothing more than a dark and haunting shadow lurking in the background. He is the mystery to be solved, and then becomes the focus of the heroes’ hunt for justice. And then there is The third, and the one that is perhaps the most surprising for me as I have this a read was that during this recent reading is how utterly religious the novel is. The friends of Dracula’s first victim spend the book seeking revenge for their deceased friend. Each member of the team views their work as something spiritual, part of a great battle between good and evil. Honestly, it can get a little heavy handed.

If you have the ability to turn off everything you know about the count and just sit back, relax on the couch and experience the book as Stoker intended, it’s actually a really amazingly good story with some interesting high points. As an example, the narrative is told through a series of diaries, journals and even letters. And This gives us a much interesting first hand insight into all of the characters as they discover and experience the horror of Count Dracula’s actions. While we go in knowing exactly who Dracula is, the characters have to be convinced of the monster, unlike us the reader as We are expecting those long sharp white the fangs, but the characters they don’t know what to expect at all in the slightest, which makes it even more enjoyable as you get a sense of dread along with the characters which is done beautifully in my opinion

Now This is just a brilliantly and oh so beautiful novel “Dracula" by Bram Stoker but it may not might honestly be the book you believe it to be, it is not all gory and horror like the films would have you think, And like Harker standing at the doorway of the castle in the beginning, you have to decide for yourself if you wish to enter or not the dark and foreboding castle. Go on dear reader, But I warn you...... if you don’t like classics or are expecting a much more cinematic accurate type read then you will find this amazing art piece of a book to be just purely so very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very extremely extremely rather boring and just something you wanna put down. But never the less, despite that I would honestly say that I would over all give this book a solid score rating of 9.5 out of 10 stars,