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Originally Posted by MediaGuy
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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In 1997 a friend of mine and I produced an audio book version of the book for the 100th anniversary of its publication. Since it is written as a collection of diary entries and letters we got actors to play all of the parts and then edited it together so you were told the story from all of the different perspectives. It was a fun project.
Sadly, the friend and I had a falling out a few years later so I no longer have access to it.