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Originally Posted by kane
Dracula is great. I loved it. Anne Rice I struggle with though. I personally found Interview with the Vampire terribly boring. I really struggled to get through it (although I did enjoy the movie). However, I did listen to an audio book of Servant of the Bones while on a road trip and enjoyed it.
When I first read Interview it was the early 90's and I was in my early 20's so maybe now I would appreciate it more.
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The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned are evolutions of the long-narrative form, and really great - especially the second one (vampire Lestat). The third is classic pop novel format, but with all of Anne Rice's spicy little additions...
Dracula is just amazing. I wish Coppola hadn't "christianized" his adaptation, because otherwise it's the most faithful. What I liked about the novel was that whenever the guys kept the gals from knowing about whatever was happening, things went bad - had the ladies been informed, no bad shit would have happened. A crude but basically accurate recap of the book. I've read it twice and come to appreciate it more as time goes on...
It's interesting that it was written in the decade following the Jack the Ripper murders, though I don't know if these inspired Stoker in any way...
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