Dracula

This book surprised me. I found it to still be very fresh and impactful despite the cultural familiarity of its story. Some of the passages of dialect seemed slightly obtuse, but other than that, it was a very engaging read. I particularly enjoyed the characterizaton of the Count and the other vampires as actually being quite evil–a refreshing change from the banality and wimpyness of the vampire as portrayed in current television and movies.