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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Dracula (for example) is dry and dull. It's told in letters and journal entries and is not scar at all. The book is dull.
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What's interesting about Dracula is that because of the letters it's written in the first person narrative but from multiple people. You don't often find books written in the first person narrative that have multiple characters telling the story.
On the other hand, the bemusing thing about books with letters is that, like Dracula, the letters give blow-by-blow detail of what happened, as if they were taking notes while those things occurred, and recount long conversations in exact word for word detail. It's unlikely that anyone has that kind of memory or would write it down in all that detail. But it's simply a literary device so I suppose we should overlook it.