What does /lit/ think of Bram Stoker's Dracula? I'm

It's a classic that's aged poorly. The pacing is all over the place, Van Helsing and Dracula give off campy impressions. The atmosphere is one of the few things worth reading it for and even then it comes across as thin when there isn't something directly "creepy" going on.

I laughed like a king when I read the phrasing "make toilet" used more than once.

The first 100-150 pages were amazing

Then Jonathan's girl comes in and Van Helsing and the book becomes a slog

It's a genuine treat. It's accessible enough that most people interested in reading will have read it or will intend to read it, but it's atmosphere and pacing are gorgeous. It drops you into the horror pretty early on and then gradually develops it so you understand why Dracula and his affiliates should be a cause for concern (spoiler alert: vampires and ghosts are spooky, kid).

It probably hasn't aged perfectly but it's a genuine joy and you could probably burn through it pretty quickly.

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you're literally better off watching murnau's nosferatu than spending a week with this shitty book.

A nice read but it does drag on every now and then. Would recommend.

It's a decent read, not much of a slog as the other Victorian-era period pieces that were published at that time. I can read Dracula just fine while working through any of the short Bronte works is a bit of a slog to me. Maybe it's the sort of person that i am

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A classic that everyone claims to have read but then they're surprised when you tell them vampires can go out during daylight in the book.

Similar for 1984, people claim to have read it but most haven't.

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Van Helsing is practically a parody of a continental. Funny accent and everything.

literally the "my diary t b h" of classic literature.

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Probably one of the few novels from the era that I enjoy. It still has the terrible pacing that marked the majority of literature of the time, but other than that I'd say it's worth a read.

> all these people whining about the pacing being slow and boring and the atmosphere being plain

go back to your call of duty and fuckin michael bay movies, fags

Stop being a fag and read Polidori instead.

>>9222930
it's good. not spectacular but it's a solid 6-7 out of 10.