I first read Dracula when I was in my late teens because Castlevania: Symphony of the Night had come out and it was awesome. I thought Dracula was just too old timey for me to understand(the ye olde tyme words and way of speaking didn't help). Fast forward about 15 years and I reread Dracula and it turns out it was just bad.

I mean, not intolerably so, it was still entertaining, but my patience can only wear so thin before I want to throw the book across the room because Helsing knows exactly what's going on but refuses to fucking tell anyone and lets the woman he was called in to protect die because of his silence.