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Sto caricando le informazioni... Bram Stoker's Dracula [Jan Needle abridgement]di Jan Needle
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Loved this book, i really enjoyed the way the story was told through the use of diaries and journal entries. ( ) I was surprised to find this book in the public library nearly 40 yars ago, and even more surprised to see how seldom it had been borrowed because I supposed that most people shared my fascination with vampires and the undead. It was one of the first 'horror' books I ever read and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Since then I have read dozens if not hundreds of vampire stories but there are very few that match the original and even fewer than overtake it. I love the diary format and the sense of creeping dread: everyone has at least heard of Dracula and vampires now but I can imagine the reaction of those first readers back in the 1890s when they were introduced to one of the most terrifying creatures in literature. I wonder what Stoker would have made of today's vampires with their soulfull looks, angst and pretty shimmers, a total travesty of the fiend from the Carpathians. An unforgivable hijacking of his original concept... For me vampires will always be terrifying figures of sheer unadulterd evil, scurrying up walls and skulking around gas-lit streets in opera cloaks. Victorians, women and even some men, swoon with terror at the sight of their ghastly faces, and they are accompanied by flies, bats, wolves and mists where-ever they go. They have no reflection, cringe at the cross, hate garlic, are burned by Holy Water, flee to coffins at dawn and are consumed by the light of the sun. Stoker wrote the rules, he gave us the guidelines, and the best vampire tales stick to his blueprint. No maiden in her right mind would want to kiss a vampire - not least because of the rank stench of his breath - and their only human followers were poor madmen like Renwick. Graaf Dracula woont in een duister slot in Tanssylvania. Hij is een vampier, een niet dode (undead) die zich in leven houdt door s'nachts bloed te zuigen uit onschuldige mensen en overdag ligt hij in een doodskist. Het boek is een horrorverhaal en vertelt de strijd van een dapper groepje mensen tegen de graaf. De graaf is bijna almachtig, er zijn echter een paar dingen waar hij niet tegen kan: een crucifix, de geur van knoflook, wilde rozen en de hostie. Als je een kruis door zijn hart steekt en hem onthooft sterft hij. Het boek is geschreven als een verzameling van dagboekaantekeningen en notities van de hoofdpersonen (uitgezonderd Dracula), het is spannend en goed geschreven. Het Engels is vrij pittig. Met Frankenstein *** een van de bekendste horrorverhalen. Het boek is vrij recent verfilmd door Francis Ford Coppola. Uitgelezen: zondag 23 juli 2000 nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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