Dracula
by Bram Stoker · first published 1897
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Gothic horror classic known for its atmosphere and vivid scenes. It is more gripping than many expect and reads well aloud, suiting fans of classic monster fiction.
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Na história, um casal e seus amigos são atormentados por Conde Drácula, uma entidade sobrenatural e hematófoga que, presa em uma maldição contagiosa, pretende se mudar de seu recluso castelo na Transilvânia para a efervescente Londres do século XIX. Com a ajuda do professor Van Helsing, o grupo de amigos pretende enfrentar o morto-vivo, mesmo com todos os perigos que a ofensiva trará.
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2015?” ↗…http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24331386-the-view-from-th... - lots of good content about books, music, comic books history, etc. There's over 80 other books mentioned inside and it makes you want to read all of them. Dracula by Bram Stoker - because it was mentioned in the previous one and it's amazing how many elements we borrowed / changed / rewritten in the new works compared to the original.
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on “Ask HN: What book had a big impact on you as a child or teenager?” ↗My wife and I recently started enjoying this! It's a very calming way to wind down in the evening instead of another installment of $TV_SHOW. I've been narrating Bram Stoker's Dracula, and I must say, the imagery and scenes stick in my mind much better than when I (quite quickly) read silently. It's fun doing the voices, and taking time every now and again to discuss what happened…
on “Rediscovering the lost power of reading aloud” ↗To your recommendations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula, I'd add Gaston Leroux's The Phantom of the Opera. That is by far my most favorite of the classic "monster" books.
on “Ask HN: What are some must read books?” ↗This was a fun read. Merging a few quotes to provide the gist of the article for discussion: "Dracula’s own powers – superhuman strength, the control of local weather, the ability to summon and direct brute creatures – cannot match the powers of his Enemy. And that Enemy is not Dr. Van Helsing or Jonathan…
on “Dracula's Biggest Mistake” ↗I always found these types of things particularly creepy. Scaled up to human level, imagine a creature that trolls around luring you with visually-convincing mates only to eat you. Bram Stoker's Dracula had a particularly good bodyhorror version of this in the multi-bodied "Woman".
on “Spider Uses a Light Show to Trick Eager Male Fireflies into Its Web” ↗Not sure what was more thrilling to read "Dracula" or this "Old journals".
on “The Making of Prince of Persia” ↗To be fair, it's probably more reasonable to judge it in the stream of epistolary / didactic literature than purely narrative. I remember Defoe's Crusoe and Stoker's Dracula not having particularly inspiring characters by modern standards either. It is curious about the divergence between engineers and non-engineers. If he ever writes another novel in the same vein, it'd…
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