Dracula

There's a great story in here, but it was too long drawn out. The opening in Transylvania, the arrival of the Demeter, and the hunt at the end are all memorable, but the entire middle section bogged the whole thing down. Van Helsing, especially, with his clumsy foreigner English was intensely irritating. I began this book almost a year ago and it took a long continuous slog of forcing myself to read a chapter here and there before abandoning the book again for a few weeks. I forced myself to read the last 100 pages this weekend and once I got back into it, it became an enjoyable adventure story again.