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This guide helped in my latest review and allowed me to flourish from set points instead of writing a confusing cluster. Thank you for sharing, Kell; bookmarked in the browser.

I wouldn't consider it a classic, just old and popular; nonetheless, it is vastly influential and perhaps that is a good enough reason. The more modern interpretations of vampires I know don't seem much different from the one in this book, but fail in the execution and/or adjust small bits.

The first time I played Fallout 3, I went from the first real-world town directly to the ship in Rivet City just by exploration and cut across more than half of the game.

Social democracy is one of the main ideologies in european politics, its difference towards marxism is the purpose to reform capitalism instead of replacing it. The ruling political party in the EU at the moment, Party of European Socialists, is a part of Socialist International. The political science behind it is in fact more complex, but I don't have the knowledge to expand on it.

The purpose of communism is to give a voice to every citizen, sadly it was something forgotten right at the start. But freedom from communism is to buy a chocolate when you want it, I wouldn't like to renounce that freedom. I want to make clear I wrote the previous post for the sake of controversy, it isn't something I believe.

Communism is the inevitable political future.

Dracula, by Bram Stoker, is an iconic book that became a staple of the horror genre and set the standards for all vampire related books. It is an epistolary novel, which means it's written as a series of documents. In this case, the book is constructed of properly sequenced pages from diaries, letters, ship's logs, and newspapers. The story starts with Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, travelling to visit Count Dracula on behalf of his employer Mr. Hawkins. Starting from the town of Bistritz, Jonathan reveals in his diary the pledges from locals for his giving up the travel and the small, strange gifts he receives, as well as the vast amount of people blessing him worriedly. His journey takes him through the Carpathian mountains, where he's presented with wondrous landscapes and a feeling of isolation. Once on the agreed place, a carriage sent by the Count takes him somewhere farther. In this following journey he witnesses strange occurrences, such as strange lights in darkness always extinguished by the coachman and menacing wolves backing down by the coachman's gestures. In the meantime, Jonathan's fiancée Mina arrives in Whitby to visit her friend Lucy, who's also engaged to marry, and is wondered by the city's beauty. There she obtains a pleasant routine of leisure, with her hours spent reading, practicing her stenography in order to assist her husband in his work, having nice strolls through the town and engaging in conversations with locals on her favourite spot, from where she can observe the port and a good deal of other relevant places. However, a seemingly russian ship arouses suspicion for its errant and misguided behaviour, endangering itself as a huge storm looms near and worrying the people ashore. The book is entertaining and suspenseful, as the plot thickened I grew more and more enthralled in the several ramifications; these eventually joined into a simple narrative akin to the basic action films, once the mysteries were unveiled. The build-up didn't feel rushed or at any other relevant fault, but much of the story was about the mystery surrounding the Count and it inevitably became much more plain. Even though the menace seemed inferior when the reader finally understands its essence and frailties, the suspense remained to the bitter end. The author provided the reader with a pleasurable writing, eloquent even for the late 19th century and yet easy enough for a smooth read. It shares with Murder on the Orient Express the element of being cosmopolitan, which leads me to think it was fashionable back then in the commonwealth. However, unlike in Christie's book, this element is never unwarranted and it even serves as an important focal point to the plot, given that it lies in the history of the vampires and is a factor behind the Count's ambitions. The characters were simple and pleasant, yet uninspired and I thought their individuality was sacrificed as the novel progressed in order to move the plot forward. The example that struck me most was Mina, for as in the beginning she had an enticing personality that seemed to hide complexity, she later transformed into a perfect young woman to whom the others were devotees; I think the author sensed it as well, but his attempt to avert it felt plastic. Another irksome matter about the caracters is how they lacked care and prevention, because there were horrible circumstances they should have avoided by simple gestures, but didn't perhaps for the sake of plot. As I read, listened and watched about Count Dracula along the years, his myth grew as a growing amount of stories used him as an origin or a template. However, none of these spoiled me to the events in this book and I read it unaware of how it would unfold, despite some words and elements provided a very clear foreshadowing for small events ahead; one of these had the purpose of being major, but it just became a cheap act to add emergency to the character's plans. It's a good enough story with a nice build-up, unfortunately followed by a generic development and conclusion. However, I don't know how that could be avoided without changing the story as a whole, given that its simplicity and familiarity may have been the author's intention. Despite the flaws, the book is never compromised and I think it ultimately is a solid read with tidied content.

No, I haven't. Do you think I should?

I watched Raise the Red Lantern, directed by Zhang Yimou. It's about a girl who accepts marrying a wealthy man, but is unable to cope with the stresses raised by the traditions in the ancient household. There are four wives who compete everyday for their husband's affections and the luxuries that follow. It's a good film.

It makes sense Romance of the Three Kingdoms has so many characters, because it's about three kingdoms.

You didn't remember the fifth of November.

Why did the utopian society send everyone to jail?

Welcome to the forum, BookShelfy91.

A book that combines romance, fantasy, young adult and Japan is Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami.

Their cinematics for the games are very well done, they could have done a film of that.

First images from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

In total, I read 54 pages of Dracula by Bram Stoker; in short, what left of the book to read.

Welcome to the forum, Amira099.

I like it, certain things were done really well whilst others weren't. It is different from how pop culture made me expect, for the better, but to my enjoyment much of the book was the mystery surrounding the count and that has now changed. I like Dr. Seward most, someone I didn't know until reading the book; I don't like how Mina evolved during the book, in the beginning she was awesome.

I only read 13 pages of Dracula yesterday, unfortunately.

I can join the read-a-thon.

I reached it, at last. The book was hard to get into, but by the second session I could read it with relative ease. This beginning is great, the writing becomes more fluid and the characters seem to have depth.

Is it The Lottery by Shirley Jackson?

I underestimated the book's dimensions, and therefore I'll only finish the agreed pages for the first week in one or two days. I'm sorry for the hassle.