Dracula
by Bram Stoker, 1897
This is my classic for the semester. (No jokes, I had already chosen to read this book during the summer, well before I read those other vampire novels.) I'm not very far into it, only a few pages, and not much has happened besides Jonathan Harker getting to the castle of Count Dracula and all the townsfolk he met along the way crossed themselves against the evil eye.
So I guess I'll blog about why I chose this novel. I mostly chose it because it was cheap at Barnes and Noble. (They have their nifty store-brand copies of all the classics for, like, $4, and I was all, "Heck yes, I wanna buy that!") I've heard it's a pretty good book. It must be. It's inspired lots of movies and is one of the only books that hasn't gone out of print and it was published over a 100 years ago.
I shall read on!
1 comment:
I was surprised by how much I really enjoyed Dracula. Stoker does a good job of making vampires a terrible creation (I'd romanticized them with the help of a few movies) and of sustaining the tension throughout the novel. Enjoy--it'll be a relief after tear-inspiring animal tales...
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