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Title: Better in Memory than in the Actual Reading
Review: I realize my heresy in saying so, but Dracula is painfully overwritten, overwrought, and overrated. There are about 20 good pages which are countered by over 450 of pure dreck. Don't even get me started with Van Helsing's painful "dialect," which is like the worst writing of Twain and Stephen Crane when they did the same thing. The myth and idea of the Count have staying power, but the novel is as dull as dirt. I know all the critical reasons for its popularity, but all of these strike me as very strained.
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