As you know I’m participating in several reading challenges this year and this week’s Book Beginnings and Friday 56 is part of the Back to Classics and Classic Horror Reading Challenges.
I read this in college and remember having pretty high expectations for the book considering that Bela Lugosi’s Dracula scared the bejesus out of me when I was naïve youth and naturally when I got to college and had to read it, I just knew I would have to sleep with my dorm room light on.



3 May. Bistritz. – Left Mynich at 8:35 p.m. on 1st May, arriving at Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an hour late.
If I didn’t know it was a journal entry or an epistolary book I would venture a resounding ‘Who cares.’ And if I’m being perfectly honest I still don’t care.
I am quite interested in how and/or if my reading and opinion of the novel have changed since I last read it 20 years ago.
My Dearest Mina, –
. . . it never rains but it pours. How true the old proverbs are. Here am I, who will be twenty in September, and yet I never had a proposal til to-day, not a real proposal, and to-day I have had three. Just fancy! THREE proposals in one day! Isn’t it awful! I feel sorry, really and truly sorry, for two of the poor fellows.
Bram Stoker, Dracula pages 56
I’m a fan of Dracula, but it’s been years since I read it. I might have to give it another read soon.
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The fist part of the book – the scenes in Trannsylvania – are by far the best and scared the living daylights out of me. Once it moves on to Whitby and then London I lost interest
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Had never heard of the Friday 56 until today but am loving it! Yep, Dracula is one of those reads that drew me in when I was younger. Enjoy your weekend!
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I remember reading this years ago, too and was fascinated by vampires.
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I tried reading this one, but stopped less than halfway through. I think the movie ruined the book for me since I saw it first, but I will probably take it up again sometime. 🙂 Happy weekend! (I added you to the Linky.)
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Thanks Freda! I always forget to do the Linky. I’m hoping that I enjoy more now that I’m older and ‘wiser’. I’d like to watch the movie again to find out why I was so scared.
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