Sisters is Dracula worth reading?
Yes, but only on the strength of the first half. In the second half it turns into an adventure story about a group of bros overcoming the supernatural with the power of science and gets a little, dare I say, Reddit.
>>24795878I would say that it starts strong, but dies out about 1/3 of the way through with Mina and Lucy's letters to each other. Then it picks up again. Then it does turn into Broventure time, but is overall pretty fun.>he didn't like broventure time because of child brain>I am of man brain and, therefore, am at one with the bros.
One of the few books that virtually no one thinks is better than it's adaptations. Is there a single person who watches a Dracula or Nosferatu movie and says "I'm so mad they cut out Quincey Morris"?
There's a reason most of the movie adaptations ignore the broventure and go with a darker ending.
>>24796154Quincey Morris is the only character badass enough to take yard pops at a bat, miss, then go inside and be like "Nah, I missed it. Sucks about your window and walls tho." I haven't watched the movies, but it's a shame to hear they cut him out.
>>24795878The power of science theme was totally lost on me when I read it because I didn't realize the technology they were using was supposed to be advanced at the time of writing.
I enjoy all of the lengthy dialogues and monologues from Dracula and Mary and Lucy and Van Helsing. They're just well written even when they go on for far too long and don't seem to be advancing or adding to the story.
>>24796154Gr8 b8. Not a single Dracula movie has ever been good. Not even lugosi.
The epistolary form is interesting and make it sometimes feel like a collection of short stories pieced together rather than one big story.
>>24796180Who said the Dracula movies are good? It's the three Nosferatu movies that are great.
>>24796185Dont play semantics faggot none of them are good.
>>24796225But I already declared they were great. What is your counter argument?
Yes, but Frankenstein is better.
>>24795878>he supernatural with the power of science and gets a littleRETARD ALERT! RETARD ALERT!Dracula is defeated using crosses, mass and catholic rituals. You're super uber retarded and never read the book.
>>24796281This is true although Frankenstein is less of a horror novel. It's been a while since I read it but I mostly just remember Frankie roaming around being lonely.
>frankensteins monster is an intelligent but ugly looking being that longs for nothing but intimacy, but society shuns and rejects him out of a misplaced fear he's literally me
>>24796293This is true. I guess for all of the medicine and guns and typewriters they use they do just defeat him with God in the end. I think Stoker wrote to his buddies that the power of science was something he was interested in and he wanted it to be important in the story but maybe I'm imagining things.
>>24796317the middle part is slow, for sure. But the chapter where Victor is in college collecting pieces of people and going insane is just gothic horror at its finest.
>>24795856Yeah, I read it last year or something and it's cool, although the best part is the beginning when Harker travels to and then is in Dracula's castle. I found it a little rushed feeling and anticlmactic in the end.
>>24796322You would have known if you had read the book instead of being a secondary stupid hilly billy.
Dracula disappears for the middle of the book and all its just people standing around worrying for 200 pages.
>>24796435I did read the book I just don't remember most of it past the Lucy arc because it was boring
>>24795856Anyone tried this one on ice? I know some of you do this.
>>24796185Eggers' Nosferatu was underwhelming
>>24796465I thought it was pretty good but my experience was heavily biased. I finished reading Dracula for the first time 2 days before it came out and was then targeted with advertising for it, having no prior knowledge it was coming out, but being a big fan of The Witch. I also watched it in theatre high on ritalin with my now ex girlfriend during one of the last good periods of our relationship.
