Blog > Book - Dracula & Dracula's Guest

I had an eye set on reading Bram Stoker's Dracula for years, and finally could get this book cheap in Amazon.

The edition I read contained both Dracula and other stories, as Dracula's Guest; this story was, at some moment, considered to be part of the original Dracula's plot. IMHO it simply doesn't fit, so it is good out to keep it out of the main book.

Reading Dracula was fun; I really enjoyed the epistolary style. The bad part is that Coppola's 1992 film was affixed in my mind. Could not get to focus on the book descriptions, as the images for the film continuously assaulted my reading. Actually, are the images from the Mignola comic-book adaptation what I keep fresh in my memory. I got this comic last year, 2019, after some extensive search from the first time I read it around 1994.

The plot diverges from the love story from the film. Sometimes you get what you expect from the movie, sometime not.

The pace is not as franctic as I would like it to be; I guess it shows it is a 19th century book, and shall not be read by today's TV/film standards.

The read, though fun, is not encouraging me much to read British XIX century fiction (but Wuthering Heights is already in the pile). All and all, I found the book interesting; but you can spare the other stories... I found them simply bareable. If I revisit the book, I will surely pass on them.