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🧛🏻♂️ ALC Review 🎧
Bram Stoker's Dracula - Full Cast Audiobook Produced by Elysian Nightfall Studios
In this Classic Gothic Horror, Dracula is presented with a multi-narrator cast in this unabridged 1897 original text version.
I SO enjoyed this audiobook!
I've never read Dracula before. I mean, it's been on my list for awhile because it's a classic and I have quite a few challenges/quests where I'm trying to read a bunch of classics, but I've never had the urge to pick this one up.
After reading A Dowry of Blood earlier this year, it kind of turned me off to Dracula, but when I saw this audiobook, I felt I needed to give it a go. It's October, so it's a great time for a spooky story and I do love a good Vampire story.
I am SO glad that I did. This full cast version was delightfully immersive and I really enjoyed all of the narrators. It felt like it brought this pretty old classic to life. I could imagine the story taking place now with the story really coming to life.
I didn't know that the styling of the novel was First Person POV, but kind of epistolary style with everyone's narration delivered as a diary entry or letter. It was such a cool delivery device. I mean, I've read epistolary before, but since I didn't expect it, it was even better to be surprised with this full cast version.
I'm so glad I did. I'm not sure that I would've enjoyed it as a book on my first readthrough as much. Because of the number of characters and the frequent changes, the audiobook narrator changes were really nice to ensure I was on track with the POV changes.
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🧛🏻♂️ An entertaining format for reading a Classic
🧛🏻♂️ A Vampire story for your Halloween week
🧛🏻♂️ An audiobook that really does pull you into the world with great voice acting
Triggers: Death, Murder, Violence, Self-Harm, Mental Illness, Misogyny, Confinement
⭐⭐⭐⭐ For the book
⭐⭐⭐⭐💫 For this specific audiobook
Entendo perfeitamente que não teria outra maneira de contar a história, se não através dos diários dos personagens, embora eu não seja muito fã desse tipo de leitura, o livro me surpreendeu!
El libro para mí se merece, siempre, las cinco estrellas. Ahora, esta edición en concreto... Entre la cantidad de faltas de ortografía y tipografía y según qué licencias con la traducción...
Después de leerlo, soy incapaz de ver las adaptaciones. Amo este libro, me encanta demasiado, es demasiado bueno y una historia de terror y el hermoso amor entre Jonathan y Mina, la pobre Lucy y el resto de los personajes, el inmenso amor que le tengo a Seward y el terror que infunde Drácula, es algo maravillosos y me duele que no exista (o aún no encuentre) una adaptación digna.
Empeze a leer la edición anotada para entender mejor la trama y la historia
One of the books I am extremely fond of and could reread over and over again! This is a classic in the world of horror fiction. Although not the first tale alluding to Vampirism or making of it the center of the plot, it is the one which instilled the genre for over a century now. Ever since Dracula, most -not to say all- vampire stories have one or more of the features of that fearful Transylvanian count in the bearing, appearance, designs, or behavior of their characters.The novel, however, is not merely a horror tale with a somewhat Gothic and monstrous antagonist at its center. It is also a study in the socio-historical conditions of the era. Its plot, by means of illustration, provides a series of contrasts between old traditions and new ideals, scientific rationality versus folklore, and the superstitious old Europe against Modern London. The book supplies numerous references to the latest ideas and inventions of the time in order to reflect the rapid technological changes during the late Victorian period. These references cover phonographs, kodak cameras, portable typewriters, and telegrams in addition to the new medical and psychological theories. Moreover, the entire plot of the novel is presented in the form of letters, diary entries, and newspapers cuttings to convey the scientifically advanced method of observing, analyzing, and recording information. Side by side with this revolutionary rise of science, Stocker appeals to the religious faith in dealing with the supernatural monster in an attempt to revive the religious zeal in an age mostly dominated by secularism. In keeping with the Fin-de-siècle Renaissance of Gothic literature, the book plays on the fears of the late Victorian society especially in connection with the fear of moral degeneration caused by Darwin's theory of evolution. At the same time, the foreign origin of the count can be read as an allegorical representation of the anxiety related to immigration at the time. Immigrants were then closely linked to vice, disease, and corruption. All three can be found in Dracula who's presence in London contaminates everyone with a strain of Vampirism. The two female characters in the novel serve an even more important feat which Stocker had attempted to accomplish. Mina Murray, on the one hand, escapes the preying of the fearful monster by dint of her traditional virtues as "the angel in the house". Lucy Westenra, on the other hand, falls victim to her own unconventional desires and needs as a "new woman". This portrayal suggests to the mind Stocker's possible opposition to the new woman and his preference of conventions. Overall, the book is a classic scare. It is dark, creepy, suspenseful, and interesting, which would allow its enjoyment by many more generations to come.
The original and the best. We all know about dracula. But it is a grand tale of bloodlust that makes you wonder... was this ever real? If you have Never read Dracula you should. I have seen so many retellings of this book, but up until now i had never read this book. Well i can safely say now i have read it and that is just one more class off my list. I enjoyed the heck out of it. I may even read it on the lead up to halloween next year.
I can understand why this book is a classic, but unfortunately, it wasn't for me. I found there were a lot of unnecessary and drawn-out parts. Would I ever reread the book? No, I wouldn't.
The Harker family are my shayla forever, they're sooooo cute 🥹🥹 Honestly I'm glad I found an audiobook for that one, still liked it tho
We are so accustomed to all the Dracula and vampire movies/books, that when you read the original one you feel a little disappointment, since the character itself doesn’t actively appear throughout the whole book.He has some appearances, but not as many as one would wish. Still a very standout book, and I get all the praise it receives.
Me costó un mundo leerlo pero valió la pena, aunque el final fue un poco apresurado.
I didn't totally hate this book, but it was pretty lame. It started off promising and then became a mess of words. I was sick of it by the half-way mark and had to force myself to finish it just in case there was something good at the end. There wasn't. Maybe it's just a thing with classics, but it dragged on for soooo long that it mentally tired me.
3.5 / 5Really loved the first half.Second time reading- reread it for illustration project.