I would also enjoy hearing the Sesame Street count narrate this. But alas, this episode was not brought to you by the number 13 and the letter "e" (for exanguination)
Christopher lee reading a menu would be a must listen to , his reading of Poe are astounding, listen to the Raven , gives you shivers . His voice and acting are amazing
I can’t begin to tell you how elated I was to see this on UA-cam. Christopher Lee reading classic horror novels is to me, better than finding a hundred dollar bill. Your post on UA-cam was my introduction to this world. Thank you!! Well played my friend.
To the next generation of grateful old Black and White, Colour Films, and Narrated stories of the classic horror stories of my generation. It gives me much pleasure to know that these stories and films will always be appreciated. I've enjoyed these stories since my brother and l used to sneak into the local flea Pits as they were called or even pay the 3d admission fee, great days all the best 👍 Peter Oates,.,lover of the old films and books.
Omgosh- Never would I have thought DRACULA an audiobook!! Considering DRACULA is my favorite novel, have read it one thousand times, have it in hardcover, it still scares me and I have read it aloud to a friend who requested that because reading is not a strong point of his. AND, SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE is the reader??!! Changing his voice as the role of DRACULA, next to the deranged laugh of the original RENFIELD,( Bela Lugosi), SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE does THE BEST Renfield!! 🤣 Call me crazy, I'm floored. Thank you for an EXCELLENT read!!!
Dracula is a great book and my favourite part of the novel is the opening chapters when Jonathan Harker is at Castle Dracula. The suspense and tension is absolutely fantastic. I think the opening chapters are the best. I know people will say the early 1990's film adaptation by Francis Ford Copella was very faithful to the book but I thought some of the characters were badly cast. Gary Oldman was superb as Dracula and Anthony Hopkins was great as Van Helsing but should have played him more sombre like in the original novel. However Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker and Wyona Rider as Mina were badly cast. I would love to see a new faithful adaptation of the novel where Dracula is actually portrayed as he is described in the novel in terms of all the physicalalities and clothes he wears. I know there is numerous audio books of this great novel but this might sound strange but one of my all time favourite's is a children's version which introduced me to the story. "Ladybird" which does stories for children on cassette back in the 1980's did a wonderful version of Dracula. The actors voices for all the characters were superb and sound effects were great too. It is available on You Tube. I honestly think if these actors read the original novel it would have been ideal. The actor who did Dracula's voice is my all time favourite. The "Talking Classics"(issue 29) series from the mid 1990's do an excellent version of Dracula which is read by the actor Anthony Valentine. Irish radio did an excellent 2 part drama around the centenary of the novel. I remember Christopher Lee stating in an interview that he would love to have played Dracula again but faithful to Bram Stoker. This interview might have been around the time of the Francis Ford Coppela adaptation. I am a huge fan of Bram Stokers who also wrote a great story "The Judges House" which is superbly read by Simon Stanhope on his excellent channel "Bitesized Audio Classics" where he reads ghost stories,mystery thrillers,supernatural and detective stories from the Victorian and Edwardian era's.
@@johnroche7541 Thank you for all your information on DRACULA audio books as I am/was not aware of any of DRACULA being an audio book. DRACULA is my favorite novel, it still scares me after many reads. Even once having read DRACULA aloud. The novel has GREAT imagery - "seeing" the carriage traveling up the mountains with lanterns, et al is stunning imagery. Just might get the book and follow along -
Christopher Lee played Dracula many years ago. His history prior to becoming an actor is fascinating!, including being in the British Secret Service. You might also recognize him as Saruman in The Lord of the Rings. On another note Mel Brooks did a hilarious rendition movie "Dracula, Dead and Loving it". He actually followed the story brilliantly. RIP Mr. Lee
I just want to let you know, that I actually listening to Brain Stoker's Dracula The actual story, is actually read by Christopher Lee. And that makes it, extra special. Indeed.
Yes what a magnificent narrator He was, he also was the best Dracula with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in many of the great Dracula films made in the 1950s and 1960s rock on and thanks for all the hide behind the seats moments 😀.
For Brams stokers centenary rte broadcast a radio version of the book by a great Irish stage actor whose name escapes me. My late dad turned off the radio. As he was not a fan of drama of any kind.
I didnt recognize his voice at first until Dracula spoke... "Sounds like Christopher Lee" I thought, and then happily confirmed it was. What a delight!
Love this!!! I bought the book and tried to read it but quickly found it to be a bit of a challenging read as there a lot of descriptions and some older language that I just couldn't make sense of. But this video is amazing! And anything with Christoper Lee deserves a thumbs up 👍
The artwork is called "Love and Pain" by Edvard Munch, but it has also been called "The Vampire" in later times. Munch, by the way, is the same artist who did the famous "The Scream" painting. Munch often did multiple versions of his paintings, this one looks to me like the woodcut version, also known as "Vampire 2", because it was second version he produced, out of a total of six, I believe. I could be wrong about the last part though.
I noticed it said 'abridged' but wasn't quite sure what that meant. I do have the book (But I prefer this audio), but when I did try flicking through I thought at some parts "I don't think I remember hearing about this in the audio". So I take it this recording is not the whole dracula novel, and just the "important parts"?
There is one heck of a lot missing in this abridged version, but Christopher Lee doing the narration is mind-exploding. One thing I cannot fathom (even after having read this 2 other times) is what the blue heck is a "bloofer lady"? The term has no meaning, and I am sorely puzzled each time I hear it. The only explanation I have heard posited is it is a childish corruption of the word "beautiful", but would a newspaper quoting a child not fix its bad English or at least print it like: "bloofer (sic) lady" to denote that the child misspoke?
Hello again it seems that one cannot express all the expletives that Sir Christopher Lee deserves in words alone, iam now 73yrs young and l feel that l must tell you of the first time that my younger brother and I first saw the great Actor in the Dracula film with his nemesis Peter Cushing, try to imagine at 13yrs old being scared witless as the two adversaries fought it out at the end of the film to see Draculas body slowly turning to dust till the only thing left was his ring, I'll never forget that moment l can only hope that you felt the same!!!!.
The term " Full and Abridged" is a misleading oxymoron... or paradox. In making the abridgement, certain events found in the original have been omitted. These events are then alluded to and we have no idea what is being spoken about.
This reading is not bad, but the Dracula reading by Robert Powell, produced by the BBC in 1992, is still much better articulated and much more excitingly performed! Unfortunately, this Robert Powell reading is not available on the Internet and the audio cassettes from the BBC are also no longer on sale. It would be great if someone could also upload the Dracula reading by Robert Powell on UA-cam.
There sanother older version of him reading this out there I've watched it a dozen times maybe. It's read at about 6 times the speed of this one hahaha
Ok, no posters... Christopher Lee read an abridged version of Dracula, and this is that "full audiobook" recording. In another words, the channel didn't omit anything from Lee's dramatic reading and posted the entire abridged version of Dracula. It's not an oxymoron or something grammatically incorrect. At first, I didn't care for the title of this channel, it's quite presumptuous and pompous, but it seems they were right. "iliterati" is Latin for illiterate.
@@ericmatthews3775 I remember Christopher Lee stating in an interview some years ago that he would like to play Dracula again but wanted to be faithful to Bram Stokers story. This was around the time of the Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldham version in Francis Coppela's adaptation. I am a huge fan of Bram Stokers who also wrote great ghost stories and I would highly recommend " The Judges House" which is superbly read by Simon Stanhope in his excellent channel "Bitesized Audio Classics". This excellent channel features great ghost stories from the Victorian and Edwardian era. He also does great mystery and detective stories from the same era.
@@johnroche7541 it's ironic that the film was called Bram Stoker's Dracula as it didn't quite match The book in theme. The film makes it abundantly clear that it is a LOVE story, not a horror/monster story. Now Sir Christopher's Dracula films weren't really faithful to Stoker either, if he were maybe 20 years younger I'd have LOVED to see him play in BS'rsD but...you know what? NVM...At 70 (in 1992) he was still FANTASTIC...he would have just been different than Oldman but not lesser!
@@maestroclassico5801 Thank you very much for your reply. I must admit that when I saw the trailer for Bram Stokers Dracula back in 1992 I was really excited. After reading the book several times I thought finally someone is going to be faithful to the original novel. I know it was a love story but it was faithful in a lot of places to the original novel. Even Sir Christopher Lee at 70 in 1992 still could have played Dracula in the opening sequences. Remember Dracula is an old man when Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle. Gary Oldman was great as Dracula. As I stated Sir Christopher Lee could have played the count as an old man and Gary Oldman could have obviously played the count as a younger man in the same movie. I was disappointed with some of the cast from the 1992 film. I personally thought Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder were not ideal to play Jonathan and Mina Harker. Sadie Frost was great as Lucy but made her more flirtatious than the Lucy in the novel. Anthony Hopkins was a great choice as Van Helsing but my criticism of Hopkins was that he played Van Helsing a bit over the top and not sombre like in the novel. He still was a great choice for Van Helsing. Some of the scenes in the 1992 film were also a bit stagey in terms of film sets if you get my meaning. When we read a great novel we always automatically think which actors would do justice to the characters in the book. In my opinion a young Jude Law would have been great as Jonathan Harker and a young Kate Beckinsale would be perfect for Mina. Obviously they could not play these characters now. If there was a real faithful version to the book now who would you like to play the main characters? From watching the "Underworld" series I think Bill Nighy would be good to play the older Dracula at the start of the film and obviously a younger actor to play the younger Dracula. Ian Mckellen a few years ago could play an old Dracula but he could still do it I think even now. Do you know what I could see Ian Mckellen being also ideal for Van Helsing. He can play both good guy's and bad guy's as he proved in Lord of the Rings and X-Men respectively. Other candidates for Van Helsing would be Jeremy Irons. In an ideal world I would like to see English actors portray English characters. Johnny Depp despite being American might have made a good Jonathan Harker when he was younger if you go by his performance in Sleepy Hollow. Ben Kingsley might make a good Van Helsing. A friend of mine thinks Daniel Radcliffe(from Harry Potter) might be good as Jonathan Harker judging by his performance in the horror classic "The Woman in White". I must admit I am finding it difficult to come up with a cast! Maybe something like a 3 part TV series might be better than a movie in terms of more substance at being faithful to the novel. What did you think of Kenneth Branagh's version of Frankenstein? Once again thank you for your reply.
@@johnroche7541 YES Sir Anthony was a bit over the top as Dr VH. I consider Gary Oldman to be one of the 5 greatest living actors...so he sold me on Drac....but I still would have loved to see Sir Christopher have a crack...at a romantic DRAC (rhyme!). Winona pulled off an adequate Brit accent (unlike Keanu) and was already an AMAZING actress. Johnny Depp is pretty good with accents and would have been better than Keanu but Francis FC probably didn't want to pair Johnny with Winona again so soon after Edward Scissorhands (would overshadow Gary and Sir Anthony). Have you ever seen Werner Herzog's 1979 NOSFERATU, THE VAMPIRE? It's very underrated. And as for Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein....it was ok....Branagh AND Deniro were over the top a bit.....The expectations were a tad too high I think!
..... So is Amazon messing up books? I bought Bram stoker's Dracula and I started reading it then found this, and thought it would be good to read along with Sir Lee, but my books has a lot more than what he read in the beginning and I couldn't find the next part. Did he skip useless parts or did Amazon just add filler? Are they fucking with me specifically?
This version read by Sir Christopher Lee is an abridged version(the highlights of the novel are only featured) which is not the whole book. Most audiobooks are abridged versions of novels but some audiobooks are unabridged versions(the whole book word for word).
@@Cornholio174 Thank you for your reply. Do you mean if there is an abridged version of the novel "Dracula" which corresponds with what Sir Christopher Lee is reading in book form? Sorry there is not. All books and novels are published in their entirety. When famous books and novels are adapted for audiobooks they are usually abridged but there is audiobook versions of the full novel. The English actor Clive Owen for example reads the entire novel "Dracula" for a well established audiobook company. Dracula is a great novel. However for me the opening chapters are the best when you have the Count playing a cat and mouse game with Jonathan Harker. The tension and atmosphere is brilliant. I think the novel loses something when the pace picks up but that is my opinion. There was a company called "Talking Classics" which brought the great works of literature to life in the mid 1990's. Issue 29 of this series is Dracula and this abridged version is read by the English actor Anthony Valentine. I would highly recommend it. There was a company in the UK called "Ladybird" which did children's versions in the 1980's( on cassette) of the great novels of literature including Dracula. It is available to hear on You Tube. Dont be put off because it is a children's version as the voices and sound effects are brilliant. Bram Stoker was Irish and I know in Ireland that there was a two part radio drama of the novel for the centenary of the publication of the novel. Dracula stands head and shoulders above all the vampire novels. I never rated the "Twilight" novels or film franchise. Another great vampire novel to read is "Salems Lot" by Stephen King. There has been two film versions(one from the 1970's and one from the 2000's) of this novel and to be honest none of them do justice to the book. However the BBC did a fantastic version adopted for radio and is also available on You Tube. Stephen King wrote another short vampire story called "The Nightflyer" and is pretty good. There is an excellent radio adaptation and is available to hear on You Tube. There was also a film version which in my opinion was just ok. Bram Stoker the author of Dracula also wrote some short stories. The best of these is the "Judges House" which is available to hear on the "Bitesized Audio" You Tube channel which is dedicated to horror,detective and mystery stories. Bram Stoker also wrote a short story called "Draculas Guest" and Stoker scholars are divided as some think it was originally meant to be one of the opening chapters of the novel "Dracula" and others think it is an independent short story in it's own right. Check out the You Tube channel "Horror Babble". Hope all this is useful.
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I own the physical book, but as far as I'm concerned, the only way to experience Dracula is to have it read to you by the Count himself.
Bien d'accord. Que le grand comte repose en paix
I agree ☝️
I would also enjoy hearing the Sesame Street count narrate this. But alas, this episode was not brought to you by the number 13 and the letter "e" (for exanguination)
Very well put my friend.
@@Boogie_the_catyou read my mind! I pictured the Sesame Street Count narrating this 🧛
Things I never knew I needed: Sir Christopher Lee reading in a Texan accent. I would have loved to meet him.
That may be the voice of another.
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He mentioned something about your mom, Probably for the best you didn't 😬✌️
This narrator is AMAZING. Like someone commented, I too would listen to him reading a menu! How nicely put!
Rte in 2020 rebroadcast it's dracula adaption read by the great Irish stage actor aidan grennell.
Christopher lee reading a menu would be a must listen to , his reading of Poe are astounding, listen to the Raven , gives you shivers . His voice and acting are amazing
Christopher Lee reading the Raven is my favorite audio book.
I can’t begin to tell you how elated I was to see this on UA-cam. Christopher Lee reading classic horror novels is to me, better than finding a hundred dollar bill. Your post on UA-cam was my introduction to this world. Thank you!! Well played my friend.
Ditto.
I'm floored
To the next generation of grateful old Black and White, Colour Films, and Narrated stories of the classic horror stories of my generation. It gives me much pleasure to know that these stories and films will always be appreciated. I've enjoyed these stories since my brother and l used to sneak into the local flea Pits as they were called or even pay the 3d admission fee, great days all the best 👍 Peter Oates,.,lover of the old films and books.
Lee was, and always is, the perfect gothic narrator
I jacked it while listening. Thanks Sir Chris Lee
Christopher is a serious reader, i love him reading books
How appropriate of him to read a book where he actually played as Count Dracula in the movies.
Dracula is one of my favorite books of all time.
Omgosh- Never would I have thought DRACULA an audiobook!! Considering DRACULA is my favorite novel, have read it one thousand times, have it in hardcover, it still scares me and I have read it aloud to a friend who requested that because reading is not a strong point of his.
AND, SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE is the reader??!! Changing his voice as the role of DRACULA, next to the deranged laugh of the original RENFIELD,( Bela Lugosi), SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE does THE BEST Renfield!! 🤣
Call me crazy, I'm floored.
Thank you for an EXCELLENT read!!!
Read this back in 1980.
Great audio version. Makes you wonder how so many studios screw up such a great tale.
I first heard it on cassette read by Donald Pickering. It was pretty good.
Wonderful book. I've read it throughout my 69 years.
Have you finished it yet ?
Dracula is a great book and my favourite part of the novel is the opening chapters when Jonathan Harker is at Castle Dracula. The suspense and tension is absolutely fantastic. I think the opening chapters are the best. I know people will say the early 1990's film adaptation by Francis Ford Copella was very faithful to the book but I thought some of the characters were badly cast. Gary Oldman was superb as Dracula and Anthony Hopkins was great as Van Helsing but should have played him more sombre like in the original novel. However Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker and Wyona Rider as Mina were badly cast. I would love to see a new faithful adaptation of the novel where Dracula is actually portrayed as he is described in the novel in terms of all the physicalalities and clothes he wears. I know there is numerous audio books of this great novel but this might sound strange but one of my all time favourite's is a children's version which introduced me to the story. "Ladybird" which does stories for children on cassette back in the 1980's did a wonderful version of Dracula. The actors voices for all the characters were superb and sound effects were great too. It is available on You Tube. I honestly think if these actors read the original novel it would have been ideal. The actor who did Dracula's voice is my all time favourite. The "Talking Classics"(issue 29) series from the mid 1990's do an excellent version of Dracula which is read by the actor Anthony Valentine. Irish radio did an excellent 2 part drama around the centenary of the novel. I remember Christopher Lee stating in an interview that he would love to have played Dracula again but faithful to Bram Stoker. This interview might have been around the time of the Francis Ford Coppela adaptation. I am a huge fan of Bram Stokers who also wrote a great story "The Judges House" which is superbly read by Simon Stanhope on his excellent channel "Bitesized Audio Classics" where he reads ghost stories,mystery thrillers,supernatural and detective stories from the Victorian and Edwardian era's.
@@johnroche7541 the Ladybird version is fantastic and I agree with you about the voice of Dracula.
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Thank you for all your information on DRACULA audio books as I am/was not aware of any of DRACULA being an audio book. DRACULA is my favorite novel, it still scares me after many reads. Even once having read DRACULA aloud.
The novel has GREAT imagery - "seeing" the carriage traveling up the mountains with lanterns, et al is stunning imagery.
Just might get the book and follow along -
I can't believe I found this audio book and the Great Christopher Lee is reading it❤
I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy, I’m not worthy (of this wicked reading).
The one and only. How wonderful!! His voice absolutely mesmerizes! Thank you. 🩸 🩸 🩸
Bit too mesmerized myself...fell asleep so many times took me days to finish the story
Dracula being read by Dracula brilliant 😮
The voice of Christopher Lee makes this very special! Thanks for sharing!
Christopher Lee played Dracula many years ago. His history prior to becoming an actor is fascinating!, including being in the British Secret Service. You might also recognize him as Saruman in The Lord of the Rings. On another note Mel Brooks did a hilarious rendition movie "Dracula, Dead and Loving it". He actually followed the story brilliantly. RIP Mr. Lee
The only actor who could deliver this great classic with such class. Check out his reading of the Raven and other stories by Edgar Allan Poe.
I just want to let you know, that I actually listening to Brain Stoker's Dracula The actual story, is actually read by Christopher Lee. And that makes it, extra special. Indeed.
Happy Halloween, to one and also to all as well.
Yes what a magnificent narrator He was, he also was the best Dracula with Peter Cushing as Van Helsing in many of the great Dracula films made in the 1950s and 1960s rock on and thanks for all the hide behind the seats moments 😀.
For Brams stokers centenary rte broadcast a radio version of the book by a great Irish stage actor whose name escapes me. My late dad turned off the radio. As he was not a fan of drama of any kind.
I didnt recognize his voice at first until Dracula spoke... "Sounds like Christopher Lee" I thought, and then happily confirmed it was. What a delight!
The reader's name is in the title...
@@paddymeboy I know, I didn't see it at first, I just saw "Dracula Audiobook" and added it to my watch later list.
Don't lie lol
Bollocks
@@Salacious-Crumb no lie, probably selective seeing, like when not finding something in the fridge when it's right in your face
what a hidden treasure, my friends!
Excellent listening for the Halloween season.
probably the best audiobook narration I ever heard
thank you for posting this masterpiece
Try playing this at .75 speed. You won't regret it.
1.75 my soul slowly passing as i choking on a laughter and typing my last message
This is amazing…the book I love most being narrated by the actor I respect most…thank you for this…sincerely, I thank you!!!!!!
Jesus Sauruman is such a good reader as wizards go 😂
Love this!!! I bought the book and tried to read it but quickly found it to be a bit of a challenging read as there a lot of descriptions and some older language that I just couldn't make sense of.
But this video is amazing! And anything with Christoper Lee deserves a thumbs up 👍
Fantastic, marvelous, wonderful! To hear such a classic read by the inimitable Christopher Lee - what could be better?
Amazing, best audiobook ever. Christopher left us such amazing treasures.
What a wonderful Halloween Treat to make this season BEAUTIFUL
Soo sad it's abridged. I love his deep voice, so perfect. What is the art piece in the thumbnail?
The artwork is called "Love and Pain" by Edvard Munch, but it has also been called "The Vampire" in later times. Munch, by the way, is the same artist who did the famous "The Scream" painting. Munch often did multiple versions of his paintings, this one looks to me like the woodcut version, also known as "Vampire 2", because it was second version he produced, out of a total of six, I believe. I could be wrong about the last part though.
I noticed it said 'abridged' but wasn't quite sure what that meant. I do have the book (But I prefer this audio), but when I did try flicking through I thought at some parts "I don't think I remember hearing about this in the audio". So I take it this recording is not the whole dracula novel, and just the "important parts"?
Methinks someone doesn’t understand the meaning of abridged or full audio book.
It’s a shame because this is well read
This couldn’t get any better! I pretend it’s Saruman or Dukoo that’s doing the reading 😎
OMG: Christopher Lee reading DRACULA: Now, this IS inspired!
Christopher Lee + Classic horror story = Perfect combination
Thank you Christopher lee rest in peace
they should have had sir christopher read every book ever written before he passed
Read by the mysterious Count Dooku.
Palpatine voice "DO IT! DO IT!"
Dracula reads Dracula.
Thank you for the upload.💜
Absolutely wonderful!
I'm so glad I finally made time to listen to this! It is so well done!
_Dracula_ read by Christopher Lee! What a find!
There is one heck of a lot missing in this abridged version, but Christopher Lee doing the narration is mind-exploding.
One thing I cannot fathom (even after having read this 2 other times) is what the blue heck is a "bloofer lady"?
The term has no meaning, and I am sorely puzzled each time I hear it. The only explanation I have heard posited is it is a childish corruption of the word "beautiful", but would a newspaper quoting a child not fix its bad English or at least print it like: "bloofer (sic) lady" to denote that the child misspoke?
Hello again it seems that one cannot express all the expletives that Sir Christopher Lee deserves in words alone, iam now 73yrs young and l feel that l must tell you of the first time that my younger brother and I first saw the great Actor in the Dracula film with his nemesis Peter Cushing, try to imagine at 13yrs old being scared witless as the two adversaries fought it out at the end of the film to see Draculas body slowly turning to dust till the only thing left was his ring, I'll never forget that moment l can only hope that you felt the same!!!!.
I don't think you know what "expletives" means
Cool as fuck thanks man
Wonderful.
Love Dracula mainly black and white with Christopher his the best ever love Dracula thank you
Quite nice reading. Smooth rhythymic pacing.
I love the hammer dracula films! Christopher Lee great actor.
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His Texan accent! That might be the best thing ever!
That may be another actors' voice.
Priceless.
His voice was so commanding
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Sith Lord/White Wizard, reads Dracula.
Halloween mask, Captain Kirk, 😂😂😂😂😂😂🤦🏼♂️🇬🇧
HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO YOU AS WELL ❤🎃🇬🇧🇧🇪🇺🇲♠️
Dracula by Bram Stoker Dracula
10 Minutes in...Good stuff.
love it still so scary always has been
aways will xxx
The term " Full and Abridged" is a misleading oxymoron... or paradox.
In making the abridgement, certain events found in the original have been omitted.
These events are then alluded to and we have no idea what is being spoken about.
1:41:06 bookmark
this is awesome!
THANK YOU FOR POSTING THIS BOOK ;-)
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Thanks @Titus Crow -
This is so incredible
The music is the loud in the mix. ☹️
Aw so cool 😎
the full abridged???
Sorry for being cynical--It IS Christopher Lee
A full reading of the abridged version. Makes sense to me
This reading is not bad, but the Dracula reading by Robert Powell, produced by the BBC in 1992, is still much better articulated and much more excitingly performed! Unfortunately, this Robert Powell reading is not available on the Internet and the audio cassettes from the BBC are also no longer on sale. It would be great if someone could also upload the Dracula reading by Robert Powell on UA-cam.
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wtf this is perfect
I love this! 😁😁😁😁
The perfect gem for Halloween!
Thanks
Reliable
There sanother older version of him reading this out there I've watched it a dozen times maybe. It's read at about 6 times the speed of this one hahaha
Yeah he sounds tired or something!
Ok, no posters... Christopher Lee read an abridged version of Dracula, and this is that "full audiobook" recording. In another words, the channel didn't omit anything from Lee's dramatic reading and posted the entire abridged version of Dracula. It's not an oxymoron or something grammatically incorrect. At first, I didn't care for the title of this channel, it's quite presumptuous and pompous, but it seems they were right. "iliterati" is Latin for illiterate.
how many versions did he narrate? there seems to be more than one
I often wonder how many movies Chrisopher Lee Starred as Dracula…
Christopher Lee starred as Dracula 10 times.
@@ericmatthews3775 I remember Christopher Lee stating in an interview some years ago that he would like to play Dracula again but wanted to be faithful to Bram Stokers story. This was around the time of the Keanu Reeves and Gary Oldham version in Francis Coppela's adaptation. I am a huge fan of Bram Stokers who also wrote great ghost stories and I would highly recommend " The Judges House" which is superbly read by Simon Stanhope in his excellent channel "Bitesized Audio Classics". This excellent channel features great ghost stories from the Victorian and Edwardian era. He also does great mystery and detective stories from the same era.
@@johnroche7541 it's ironic that the film was called Bram Stoker's Dracula as it didn't quite match The book in theme. The film makes it abundantly clear that it is a LOVE story, not a horror/monster story. Now Sir Christopher's Dracula films weren't really faithful to Stoker either, if he were maybe 20 years younger I'd have LOVED to see him play in BS'rsD but...you know what? NVM...At 70 (in 1992) he was still FANTASTIC...he would have just been different than Oldman but not lesser!
@@maestroclassico5801 Thank you very much for your reply. I must admit that when I saw the trailer for Bram Stokers Dracula back in 1992 I was really excited. After reading the book several times I thought finally someone is going to be faithful to the original novel. I know it was a love story but it was faithful in a lot of places to the original novel. Even Sir Christopher Lee at 70 in 1992 still could have played Dracula in the opening sequences. Remember Dracula is an old man when Jonathan Harker arrives at the castle. Gary Oldman was great as Dracula. As I stated Sir Christopher Lee could have played the count as an old man and Gary Oldman could have obviously played the count as a younger man in the same movie. I was disappointed with some of the cast from the 1992 film. I personally thought Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder were not ideal to play Jonathan and Mina Harker. Sadie Frost was great as Lucy but made her more flirtatious than the Lucy in the novel. Anthony Hopkins was a great choice as Van Helsing but my criticism of Hopkins was that he played Van Helsing a bit over the top and not sombre like in the novel. He still was a great choice for Van Helsing. Some of the scenes in the 1992 film were also a bit stagey in terms of film sets if you get my meaning. When we read a great novel we always automatically think which actors would do justice to the characters in the book. In my opinion a young Jude Law would have been great as Jonathan Harker and a young Kate Beckinsale would be perfect for Mina. Obviously they could not play these characters now. If there was a real faithful version to the book now who would you like to play the main characters? From watching the "Underworld" series I think Bill Nighy would be good to play the older Dracula at the start of the film and obviously a younger actor to play the younger Dracula. Ian Mckellen a few years ago could play an old Dracula but he could still do it I think even now. Do you know what I could see Ian Mckellen being also ideal for Van Helsing. He can play both good guy's and bad guy's as he proved in Lord of the Rings and X-Men respectively. Other candidates for Van Helsing would be Jeremy Irons. In an ideal world I would like to see English actors portray English characters. Johnny Depp despite being American might have made a good Jonathan Harker when he was younger if you go by his performance in Sleepy Hollow. Ben Kingsley might make a good Van Helsing. A friend of mine thinks Daniel Radcliffe(from Harry Potter) might be good as Jonathan Harker judging by his performance in the horror classic "The Woman in White". I must admit I am finding it difficult to come up with a cast! Maybe something like a 3 part TV series might be better than a movie in terms of more substance at being faithful to the novel. What did you think of Kenneth Branagh's version of Frankenstein? Once again thank you for your reply.
@@johnroche7541 YES Sir Anthony was a bit over the top as Dr VH. I consider Gary Oldman to be one of the 5 greatest living actors...so he sold me on Drac....but I still would have loved to see Sir Christopher have a crack...at a romantic DRAC (rhyme!). Winona pulled off an adequate Brit accent (unlike Keanu) and was already an AMAZING actress. Johnny Depp is pretty good with accents and would have been better than Keanu but Francis FC probably didn't want to pair Johnny with Winona again so soon after Edward Scissorhands (would overshadow Gary and Sir Anthony). Have you ever seen Werner Herzog's 1979 NOSFERATU, THE VAMPIRE? It's very underrated. And as for Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein....it was ok....Branagh AND Deniro were over the top a bit.....The expectations were a tad too high I think!
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..... So is Amazon messing up books? I bought Bram stoker's Dracula and I started reading it then found this, and thought it would be good to read along with Sir Lee, but my books has a lot more than what he read in the beginning and I couldn't find the next part. Did he skip useless parts or did Amazon just add filler? Are they fucking with me specifically?
This version read by Sir Christopher Lee is an abridged version(the highlights of the novel are only featured) which is not the whole book. Most audiobooks are abridged versions of novels but some audiobooks are unabridged versions(the whole book word for word).
'Sir Christopher', not 'Sir Lee'. Maybe counter-intuitive, but it's the first name that gets used in this way.
@@Cornholio174 Thank you for your reply. Do you mean if there is an abridged version of the novel "Dracula" which corresponds with what Sir Christopher Lee is reading in book form? Sorry there is not. All books and novels are published in their entirety. When famous books and novels are adapted for audiobooks they are usually abridged but there is audiobook versions of the full novel. The English actor Clive Owen for example reads the entire novel "Dracula" for a well established audiobook company. Dracula is a great novel. However for me the opening chapters are the best when you have the Count playing a cat and mouse game with Jonathan Harker. The tension and atmosphere is brilliant. I think the novel loses something when the pace picks up but that is my opinion. There was a company called "Talking Classics" which brought the great works of literature to life in the mid 1990's. Issue 29 of this series is Dracula and this abridged version is read by the English actor Anthony Valentine. I would highly recommend it. There was a company in the UK called "Ladybird" which did children's versions in the 1980's( on cassette) of the great novels of literature including Dracula. It is available to hear on You Tube. Dont be put off because it is a children's version as the voices and sound effects are brilliant. Bram Stoker was Irish and I know in Ireland that there was a two part radio drama of the novel for the centenary of the publication of the novel. Dracula stands head and shoulders above all the vampire novels. I never rated the "Twilight" novels or film franchise. Another great vampire novel to read is "Salems Lot" by Stephen King. There has been two film versions(one from the 1970's and one from the 2000's) of this novel and to be honest none of them do justice to the book. However the BBC did a fantastic version adopted for radio and is also available on You Tube. Stephen King wrote another short vampire story called "The Nightflyer" and is pretty good. There is an excellent radio adaptation and is available to hear on You Tube. There was also a film version which in my opinion was just ok. Bram Stoker the author of Dracula also wrote some short stories. The best of these is the "Judges House" which is available to hear on the "Bitesized Audio" You Tube channel which is dedicated to horror,detective and mystery stories. Bram Stoker also wrote a short story called "Draculas Guest" and Stoker scholars are divided as some think it was originally meant to be one of the opening chapters of the novel "Dracula" and others think it is an independent short story in it's own right. Check out the You Tube channel "Horror Babble". Hope all this is useful.
Awful. Wanted to just hear CL. This lift music is atrocious.
Bit odd when he adopted a breathless feminine voice for Lucy reciting her suffering lol
Bless his heart, as Southerners say-- Lee was a great actor, but that is the worst Texas accent I've ever heard.
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That's a little extreme, but the writing is a bit hard to follow
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