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Almost 300 pages into this chunkster I‘m finally at Part Two!

AnnCrystal 👏🏼🥳👍🏼💝. 1d
Teresereading I visited Whitby and read this afterwards. Fantastic to be able to visualise the setting. 1d
Texreader @Teresereading Oh that is so cool!! 19h
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Well, well, well there‘s an evil magic ring in this Swedish version of Dracula. A ruby ring.

Could this 1899-1900 version have any influence on Tolkien? Did Tolkien read Swedish? He was a language genius, so maybe.

Bookwomble Magic rings are deeply embedded in folklore and mythology, so Tolkien is much more likely to draw his inspiration from the Northern European and English traditions that were his life work. I can't definitely say he didn't read that book, but I'd think it unlikely. It's fascinating, though, that the Swedish translator of Dracula was probably drawing on the same cultural motifs 😊 1d
Texreader @Bookwomble I‘m certain you‘re correct. 19h
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This is how far I am in this chunkster of a book. I‘m still at it. Because the book is so valuable it doesn‘t go on work trips. And it‘s not broken into chapters but only into 3
Parts, I have to find loads of time to sit down with it. So I may be reading about Count Draculitz through Christmas at this rate!!

Sparklemn I‘m looking forward to your review! Might be something I‘ll decide to tackle someday. 🙂 5d
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PuddleJumper
Dracula | Bram Stoker
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I hate read #DraculaDaily though not daily because I would give up again. I'm rating this purely as a reading experience.

Some parts of this were good, some were horrendous, and others were boring.

Bookwormjillk 🍫🍫🍫 2w
Faranae I will never get over how unsubtle the metaphor of Lucy's empty veins piiiiiiiining for Arthur's blood is. 2w
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SomedayAlmost
Dracula | Bram Stoker
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Silent vampire classic with a small orchestra was an eerie & fun Halloween treat. The skilled silent filmmakers ripped off Stoker back in the day, but it made my husband want to read Stoker's classic, which he's seen me read twice. #film #vampire #Dracula

SamAnne What a wonderful experience! Many years ago an old Episcopalian cathedral in Spokane WA would host a silent horror movie with live music played on the ginormous church organ! I saw both Noferatu and Mephistopheles before the party-pooping conservatives in the church put the vanish on it. It was amazing. 2w
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AroundTheBookWorld
The Hacienda | Isabel Caas
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BarbaraJean
The Historian | Elizabeth Kostova
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#threelistthursday #tlt

I‘m surprised I got SEVEN on this list, as someone who‘s really not into scary/creepy/horror! The three on the left are favorites from this list (although I was surprised to see Name of the Rose on there!). The three on the right I‘ve read the book and watched one or more movie adaptations. With Dracula and The Dead Zone, I enjoyed the book more, but Hitchcock‘s Rebecca tops both the book & the recent movie version for me!

lil1inblue That's a good list! 🌟 2w
dabbe Fab list! Have you seen the 1940s REBECCA? It's an all-time fave of mine. Thanks for playing and sharing. 🧡💜💛 2w
BarbaraJean @dabbe Yes!!! It was the first Hitchcock film I ever saw. I watched it years before reading the book—and I still think it's better than the book 🫣🤫🤭 2w
dabbe @BarbaraJean I think you're right! 💛🩷🧡 2w
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RavenclawOwlCat
Dracul | Dacre Stoker, JD Barker

“Vampires, the whole lot of them,” Vambéry says. “They are rising from their graves.”

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RavenclawOwlCat
Dracul | Dacre Stoker, JD Barker
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Damn, this was brutal!

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RavenclawOwlCat
Dracul | Dacre Stoker, JD Barker

“My blood is your blood,” she said in a whisper.