I've never read any of Stoker's other books, but I've not heard good things. I don't have any illusions about Stoker's skill as a writer or Dracula's technical quality. It's a book that had to have been written by a hack, cause who else was gonna do it? But Stoker was still pretty good as far as hacks go. It's not about the wonky structure of the book, or the awkward shifts in tone, it's about that atmosphere of dread that's pretty constant throughout the book. And Dracula also has some of the most memorable scenes ever, so it's got that going for it I guess.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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