I’ve seen the movies but never read the original story from Stoker, until today. Went the bookstore last night to pick up this classic, and am incredibly pleased with it. Although there’s a few typing errors, the elaborate descriptions of the mood and setting really pulled me in right away. Have any of you read the original book before?

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I'm already noticing a difference between the story and the movie... I'm actually starting to feel sympathetic towards Dracula's situation.

I own the movie. Its a classic for sure. I also have Interview with a Vampire. I actually read Anne Rice's book as well. Ok actually I stole it from the cafeteria at work. It was better than the movie for sure.

It’s just so dark and brilliantly worded. I’m only on chapter 6, and already I feel a hint of passion and romance in-between the lines of horror and madness. Why is it that vampires can be so sensual while at the same time keeping their dark mystery? Mystery it seems is one major ingredient to sensuality. Matter of fact to put this in realistic terms, I find myself more passionate and intense in sex when there is a dark room lit up with candles.. far-fetched analogy, I know; but darkness creates mystery for what is not lit up, so also a dark atmosphere creates a deeper sense of sensuality. Could it thus be interpreted that the darkness in itself creates a heightened sense of sensuality?

There’s something about this that really intrigues me.

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Bela Lugosi is GOD!!

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buhahahahaha!!!

the book was boring and the journal logs were lame. the romance is all bull**** and the real life dracula used to make mothers eat their children alive before tearing out their vaginas.

Oh yes, Vlad Dracul was an interesting individual.

The True Story (http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/vlad/index_1.html?sect=6)

"The Historical Dracula," impalement became an art form in Dracula's hands. "Dracula usually had a horse attached to each of the victim's legs and a sharpened stake was gradually forced into the body," he explains. "The end of the stake was usually oiled and care was taken that the stake was not too sharp; else the victim might die too rapidly from shock."

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"If any wife had an affair outside of marriage, Dracula had her sexual organs cut out," the account reads. "She was then skinned alive and exposed in a public square, her skin hanging separately from a pole...The same punishment was applied to maidens who did not keep their virginity, and also to unchaste widows."

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The worst Transylvanian atrocity was his taking of the city of Brasov in the Carpathian Mountains. He torched the city and rounded up its inhabitants on the crest of Timpa Hill. Those who weren't impaled, he had them chopped up like hides of beef before him, limb at a time. While the city burned below, and as the agonies of Hades were played out before him, he ate an extravagant dinner, fit for a prince.

Might as well have entertainment while you eat a fine dinner, right?

I liked Bram Stoker's book very much Mouse. One of the first things I noticed was how the writing style showed the good guys to be good people. You know, polite, civilized, well mannered & loyal. Hugely different from todays writings. I always kinda thought it was a reflection on how much more people generally suck these days. You should read Dante's inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost, but be sure to get copies with modern day translations(The inferno was oringinally written in Italian and Paradise Lost is olde english), other wise it's very hard to understand and put into context.

Indeed, writing style and presentation of the particular genre, usually says a lot for the society that the book was actually written in; which is why many historians turn to art and literature to better understand the past! (=

well what else are they gonna turn to besides art & literature? videos?

The True Story (http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/history/vlad/index_1.html?sect=6)


Nice link. I read it all. Very interesting indeed.

I'm reminded of the true story by this painting.

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I'm reminded of the true story by this painting.
i'll bite. What's the story.

Click the link that's titled, "The True Story"