I had never read it before now and didn't quite know what to expect by it. Least to say, I haven't been disappointed per say. It had a slow start, an achingly slow start. But then I started caring about whether Jonathon actually got away, and if he lived. I didn't know quite how to feel about the doctor's passages at first, but upon a second reading, I also found his patient to be quite amusing. The concept of gaining life based on the number of lives he had consumed was so... Dracula.
I also liked reading where Dracula detailed his family history to Jonathon, and reading all of the footnotes along the way. Some of the places where the "slips" were pointed out, I wouldn't have really noticed without the footnotes at first read.
I remember growing up, the one Dracula I can remember is Count from Sesame street, and an episode of Scooby-Doo with a vampire, but honestly, I can't remember many others until Hotel Transylvania came out not long ago. I'm looking forward to reading the rest, it should prove to be a really interesting book, and probably the only horror story I really like.
It was a pretty slow start to the story. I mean thankfully this is Dracula and not like the memoirs of Elizabeth Bennett written in the formal English that was spoken back then, or I'd be like, "Well, here we go again...another story that I'm gonna have to tape my eyes open to read." Also why do you care about Jonathan? Like what changed your mind? I'm still indifferent to him. I'm more interested in how he's gonna make it through this book with the careless shit he's walks into. And how the count gains his life gives him a sort of super power which is pretty cool because then depending on who he consumes, he can be regarded as good or evil.
ReplyDeleteI never knew what Transylvania referred to until reading this novel, although i had heard of Hotel Transylvania. Is that a movie based off of Dracula? or is it just taking the setting from Dracula? I enjoy the creepy setting of the castle, and how Transylvania is portrayed as the quintessential "creepy" place... some castle in the middle of absolute nowhere...were the weather is always ominous and the night time seems to drag on longer than the day. Sometimes cliches just work.
ReplyDeleteI read Dracula in middle school and high school and always thought it was wicked. Speaking of the castle, my math teacher in high school lived in Romania for many years and had seen Bran castle where Vlad the Impaler lived :-) .
ReplyDelete