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Title: Dracula Falls Short of Expectations
Review: I am fond of Bram Stoker's method of retelling the tale of Dracula from the vantage point of many different characters via their journals. At times however, these journal entries became rather wordy with extraneous information. I am glad that some of the characters' hopes and fears are explicity expressed, but then others' are not which is disappointing. The main female character, Mina Harker, is treated as an equal to the male characters (she was praised for her typing skills and her courage) and at the same time thought of as delicate and someone that needs protecting. It is a rather confused example for women's liberation to say the least. And my last comment deals with the fact that the ending falls horribly flat. All this suspense is built up, then in the final climatic scene (man vs monster) there's no struggle and it's all over very quickly without the extreme details given in the previous scenes. I expected something more from a "Classic" horror novel.
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