Bram Stoker's Dracula

[Ankalegon(DTL)]

Everybody was so achingly polite and melodramatic and the epistolary format started to get annoying. 

I feel you on that.  But to an extent for me that adds to how disturbing the other scenes can appear.

I AM currently bogged down in a Mina part and looking forward to some Van Helsing and Harker!  (And Dracula of course)

I'm currently reading a book called Dracula in Love (Karen Essex), which is a retelling of Bram Stoker's Dracula from Mina's POV. I loved Bram Stoker's book; this one isn't as good, but it's still an interesting read.

That sounds like an interesting concept

Let me know when you've finished reading. I'll withold my comments until then...

Hey, lexcade, I'm interested to hear your comments!  Not that I'm finished but I'm reading that and several other books and trying to finish my own and I'd like to hear what you have to say on it too. 

[lexcade]

Hey, lexcade, I'm interested to hear your comments!  Not that I'm finished but I'm reading that and several other books and trying to finish my own and I'd like to hear what you have to say on it too. 

I was with it up until the end. Once I got through the journal entries and letters into the meat of the narrative, I enjoyed it quite a bit. I love classical literature, especially 19th century lit, so Stoker's verbosity didn't bother me. But. The. End! I wanted to throw the book. In fact, I may have.

[Ankalegon(DTL)]

I had heard before that the end was lacking... 

[tlbodine]

Hahaha, yes.  The end is the other reason (aside from the why melodramatic Victorians) that I was displeased with that book.  It kind of Monty Pythoned itself.

[lexcade]

DOOD.

"Lacking" isn't the term I'd choose.

  <---the ending.