Horror Aficionados discussion

Kate and I are going to listen to Dracula together. If anyone wants to join us, please feel free!

Yay, Char!! :)

Yay, Kate! :)

I've had this book on my TBR pile for a while. I'd like to join along, too.

Welcome, Terry! I started listening a week or two ago, but then set it aside because two library audios came in.

Today, I'm going to start listening from the beginning again.

I listened to this back in....October? whenever it was the group listen. it's really good. I hope y'all love it as much as I did.

Thanks, Latasha, I'm looking forward to it.

I'm hoping to be able to get started on it later today.

Thanks, Latasha!

I'm really enjoying this so far. The narrator/Dracula's voice is perfect. :)

I agree, Charlene, the narrator is very good, both with his voice and also a very good pacing. I'm about two hours in so far. It is sure a different thing to listen to the way this is written compared to more recent work.

It is different, but in my eyes, or is it my ears?, it's a good different.

I think its a good thing!

I've just started this today and listened to the first chapter. Who is the voice of Dracula? It doesn't say in the cast list.

I'm not sure and was wondering the same thing. ?? If it's the same deal as Locke & Key was, they will tell us at the very end.

I'm about 20% in and I'm enjoying the hell out of myself. I just finished the part which was a (view spoiler)[ newspaper account of the storm when Dracula's earth arrived at the port. (hide spoiler)] What a blast!

I'm just now to the same point you are talking about, Charlene. I'm also liking the parts about Renfield.

Funny how they list all the voices except that of Dracula.

Yes! The Renfield bits are fun. :)

Really liked the captain's journal, too.

Re: the voice actor who plays Dracula...from what I can tell (based on a Google search), (view spoiler)[Simon Vance voices Dracula but isn't credited as such because, technically, you're hearing Dracula's dialogue as told to you by Harker. (hide spoiler)]

Somewhat off-topic, but since I'm already commenting...this does look like a great cast, but I just can't get into this story. I tried to read it for the first time a year or so ago, and I ended up abandoning it around the halfway point. It read more like a romance novel than a horror novel, and it was such a chore to get through. I read it on my Kindle, and it felt like it took ages to advance from one percentage mark to the next. I was extremely disappointed.

I don't listen to audiobooks, so I didn't know about this back then. If I had, perhaps I would have tried listening to it instead, but I doubt it would have made a difference either way. In any case, my attempt to read it left such a bad taste in my mouth that the story has kind of lost its appeal at this point. It's one of those cases where, for me, the legend is far better than the source material.

I hope you have a better experience with it than I did!

Oh no Mike! :(

That's too bad that you didn't enjoy it, Mike. :(

This will be my 4th time "reading" it, or at least the 3rd. Each time I read it I find something new to appreciate. I love books written in the epistolary form, (diary entries and letters), so that might be part of the reason I enjoy this story so much.

When I listened to this back in October, November? It would've been my ...3rd I think

I'm such a newbie! Only my first go around. I think the Martian is the only other book I can think of that I've read that is in the epistolary form. I'm liking it, too.

About 60% through now. (view spoiler)[ Great scene where Lucy bites the dust. Van Helsing is a great character. (hide spoiler)]

Terry, that was good. (view spoiler)[ The double whammy of Lucy and her mom, it was tragic. (hide spoiler)]

I think Mina is a great character too. A strong and sensible woman of her day.

Yes (view spoiler)[ I did not remember Lucy's mom getting it like that, so that was a surprising part for me. I have the different movies blended together in my mind, but I don't remember that happening. (hide spoiler)]

I'm at about 79% and am hoping to finish it today.

I wrapped it up today, also. Very much the classic I expected it to be.

I'm glad that you enjoyed it, Terry!

I'm only up to about 89%. Things got busier that I anticipated. I hope to finish it tomorrow.

I had forgotten the ending went that way. (view spoiler)[ All the movies seem to change that ending into more of a fight scene. I prefer the original, and like to believe that their only hope was to outfox the count and catch him vulnerable like they did. They wouldn't have had a chance if he made it back. (hide spoiler)]

I'm lagging behind at 20%.(view spoiler)[I'm loving Alan Cumming in this, he's great as Dr Seward. The same goes for Katy Kellgren as Mina. I can't say I like Lucy's narrator, I'm finding her a bit annoying. (hide spoiler)]

I'm at 48% now (would have been more but kept falling asleep whilst lying on the couch listening). (view spoiler)[I'm still loving Alan Cumming and finding his diary entries to be the best ones. Tim Curry is also great but he hasn't gotten a lot of talk time so far, I hope this changes. Thanks god Lucy is dead, now i won't have to listen to her narrator simper through her letter and diary entries. Really hated listening to her, the equivalent of nails across a chalkboard, ugh. (hide spoiler)]

Kate wrote: "I'm lagging behind at 20%.[spoilers removed]"

he was my favorite as well.

Yeah, I liked Alan and I liked Tim in his part, and you do get more of him as the story progresses. I wasn't as annoyed by Lucy as that, not sure why :)

Lucy didn't bother me either. I'm pretty easy going with audiobooks. I listen to a lot of Librivox recordings and those can get real rough.

Lol Latasha, that bad huh?

That can be.

Lucy's voice did bother me a little bit...maybe it was just her character and not the voicing? (view spoiler)[ I love him! I love him! I love him! Blech (hide spoiler)]

Other than that I really loved this audio. I just finished it and I enjoyed myself with this one.

I agree, Charlene, I'll have to listen to this again close to Halloween next year.

I loved it too.

Charlene wrote: "Lucy's voice did bother me a little bit...maybe it was just her character and not the voicing? [spoilers removed]

Other than that I really loved this audio. I just finished it and I enjoyed myself..."

Yes, a thousand times yes. It maybe was her character but the narrator was still annoying.
I loved Alan Cumming in this, his parts were so well done as were Tim Currys although he wasn't in it nearly enough for my liking.

Kate wrote: "Charlene wrote: "Lucy's voice did bother me a little bit...maybe it was just her character and not the voicing? [spoilers removed]

Other than that I really loved this audio. I just finished it and..."

I totally agree about Curry. I was expecting him to be a more featured voice.

I listened to this some time ago and I absolutely loved Tim Curry's performance. The story was so good too. The ending happened very quick in my opinion.