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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Getting the Carpathian Ambiance,
By plow girl (Columbus, OH) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Carpathian Castle (Hardcover)
I recently travelled in the Carpathians and read this book while travelling. It gives one a good sense of what this area was like 100 years ago, particularly the thinking of the people. Jules Verne's prescience is impressive
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Skip it.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Carpathian Castle (Hardcover)
Having read short reviews of this book, I expected an undiscovered gem, Jules Verne's take on DRACULA, and found it instead slight and tedious, a short story worth of drama drawn out to 190 pages. It's easy to make this sound interesting, being about the clash of superstition and technology, set around a mysterious castle the locals believe haunted. But don't be fooled. This may have a bit of "gothic" atmosphere, but to present-day readers it does not deliver on its supernatural aura. Today, this is a footnote, interesting mainly for the 19th century description of still uninvented, but now commonplace, technology.
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Carpathian Castle by Jules Verne (Hardcover - Dec. 1970)
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