I want to make a confession. This is the first vampire book I've ever read. I've never been interested in vampires, ghosts, werewolves and other manifestations of superstition and the supernatural. Indeed, for as long as I can remember, I've avoided horror - gothic and otherwise - in both literature...
I'm glad that I listened to it since it's a classic and it inspired so many other works. However, it is fairly dated in pacing and structure. I enjoyed it but felt perhaps some of the longer speeches (many of Van Helsing's) could have been cut out without any loss of clarity. Also, the ending felt a...