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  Аноним25 июня 2015 г.

  Two wonderful facts about this book:
  1)Dracula is old.
  2)Van Helsing is old.
  I could have finished at this point, but I`m not likely to do so(I hope).
  The greatest thing I do like about the way the story`s told - it`s made of diaries. Actually, I found it really interesting to read those lines, full of mist, fog, darkness and hope. I`m still involved into the story, although I have already finished it and have begun to read another book, and now I`m like "Dracula, dear, where are you?; I know you cannot be in Kiev of the Chernobyl times, but, like, can you please jump out of that burning reactor?! "But he won`t(What a pity!) do so.
  Now the characters.
  Jonathan Harker: A young solicitor of middle age(it`s not written directly, but it seems so), charming with his devotion to his fiancée, Mina Murray(later Mrs.Harker), but a bit plane in other traits of character.
  Mina Murray: a bright young lady, a bit younger than Jonathan. (So bright time to time, that I even lose the understanding of why there was such a necessity to add some more personalities to the book. She and Dracula was quite enough :-D)
  Lucy Westenra: Mina`s so-called BFF. Strange, as they are so different. Spoiler![I didn`t even feel sorry, when she became a vampire. It was exactly her place.]End of spoiler.
  Sir Abraham Van Helsing: an old hyperactive dude, keen on astronomy, biology, psychology, chemistry, phylosophy, literature and so on.
  ...Some more participants of anti-Dracula coalition...
  And Count Dracula himself.
  He doesn`t look like this person:
  
  Or like this one(wow, he`s so hot!):
  
  But here is THE REAL COUNT DRACULA(according to Bram Stoker's description):
  
  And through the whole story we are to make ourselves remember that WE CANNOT FALL IN LOVE WITH THIS OLD GUY WITH MOUSTACHE!!!But Alas! We fail :-D He`s kind, intelligent, patient, hospitable and oh!so naaaasty!!!And he is the antagonist of the book. sits weeping in the dark corner of the room And guess, who is to die in the very end of the book?! Bingo! The antagonist(oh, Life, why do I always fall for the characters that are to die?!)
  Now the language.
  It`s great, because it`s easy(here I mean quite understandable). I especially liked the parts which were written using the "mariner dialect". The only thing I was annoyed with were the monologues of Abraham Van Helsing. He is a real master of doublespeak! :-D But if you like such parts of books, where the action is delayed due to an OVER-talkative book creature, this is a wonderful "set of diaries" for you, with wolves howling, spiders making their nets and bats turning into pale old Counts.
  Now The Sun goes down.
  It`s your time, Dracula.

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