Classics 2-3, Count on it!

My quest of finding a ‘classic’ book that I enjoy has seen me on the dark moors in Wuthering Heights, the ocean waves in Treasure Island, and a bleak cold Russia in Crime and Punishment. All these great adventures have left me slightly unfulfilled! I’ve found solace in the Hound of the Baskervilles which is a cracking book. This still leaves the classics 3-1 down.

Next up was Bram Stoker’s Dracula. I have to say I really enjoyed it. It started slowly and the multi-source narrative was difficult to get to grips with at first. Once it got going though it was an intense and gripping novel. Some of the more gruesome extracts had me holding my throat for protection. I had previously watched the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola adaptation which I enjoyed thoroughly.

I had expected some kind of sympathy for Dracula in the book, as the film had the love interest aspect. The book had none of this. It made Dracula even more of a brilliant villain. I can see why the film has a love interest. In the book when the Count’s boat first comes to port at Whitby, his first victim is Lucy Westenra best friend of Mina Murray who’s Jonathan Harker’s bride-to-be. By chance?!? Unlikely. This aside I would recommend a read, next up on the classic front is Frankenstein.