Review: An interesting read not just for Draco-philes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2011
I have a confession to make. I've never read Bram Stoker's Dracula. I tried it once and within the first 50 pages or so I set it aside and never got back to reading it. It just seemed for stilted, overly florid and excessively melodramatic for my test. I could understand that Dracula was the literary grandfather of the angst-ridden existential vampires of Anne Rice, but I just couldn't find any common ground with the old boy.Wish I could have found Frank Delaney's extended essay on Stoker and his enduring literary creation back then. It would have reading Dracula more palatable to my modern sensibilities.Reading Undead made for an enjoyable way to pass an hour or so. Delaney has packed a lot of material into a relatively short work. While some of it may be familar to a "Draco-phile," much of it was all new to me. By the time I finished this Kindle Single I found I had been not only entertained, but educated too.Who knows, I may even give Dracula another chance.