Dracula

An easy read, dripping with atmosphere and history.

Told by a collection of characters, you try to guess and put together what is happening in real time. Dracula himself featured less than I expected, but was somehow also omnipresent.

I think I enjoyed the opening from Jonathan's point of view the most - though it was cool to meet Van Helsing later.

Listening to the notes after the book, I have to say a lot of the obvious (in retrospect) themes completely passed me by, so perhaps one to reread.

Uno dei libri più importanti per la creazione del vampiro come lo conosciamo noi, con tutte le leggende, le credenze e i personaggi iconici ormai di dominio pubblico. Il pregio più grande per me è la qualità della narrazione, che riesce a costruire immagini molto forti che ti si tracciano in testa mentre leggi; sono queste il lascito più prezioso che mi rimane di questo libro.

Dracula was actually quite nice to read. At first, the story advanced quite slowly in my opinion, but towards the middle it became faster. Sometimes the story haunted me in the night, but fortunately this was not that bad and it never lasted long.