Will the real Dracula please stand up?

[CMoon]

All this talk of vampire movies and not one mention of Shadow of the Vampire? Shameful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyBt5DDFcQY

Or Let The Right One In.

[Skykid]

Skykid... Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in the 1890s, not in the late 17th century...

I, too, thought the book was boring and not very imaginative (always keeping in mind that Stoker was, well, not the last, but certainly not the first in a long line of vampire novels). Not a big friend of Victorian literature in general, but this one was especially uninteresting. What exactly did you like about its aesthetics, Skykid? (& note this is an honest question)

Sorry, I knew that (date) I just didn't have my head on straight.

I thought it was terrifically written and composed, and the interlinking of all points of view via the journal layout was brilliantly put together. A number of twists involving characters (especially Renfield and Van Helsing's realisation of what was going on) were really interesting to me, and I found it to be pretty exciting adventure fiction.
I especially liked the culmination of the hunt where the three parties split up and raced back to the Carpathians, with Van Helsing and Mina (who was changing by the minute) being out in the snowstorm in the forest.

I'm unsure why no-one has done a true film adaptation of the book - it's packed with perfectly good material.

But, yeah - dunno. Just thought it was a damn good read.