Very entertaining. Leaves you swaying back and forth between two possible interpretations which is always kind of fun. Loads of melodrama--it's all London slums and opium dens and lime pits and overcrowded cemeteries and rather horrific entities lurking about Wilkie Collins' house. Very much enjo...
So far, so creepy.***I don't know much about Collins, but the biographical detail of Dickens is excellent, and pleasurable reading.***It's a huge book, and it's taking me forever, and it is sheer pleasure, every minute.I'm really thinking that I should read the Mystery of Edwin Drood though.***The p...
I am setting this aside for now, I am 250 pages in and finding it pretty boring, which is a bummer because the blurb made it sound so good...maybe I will pick it up again at a later date...
"Do you eat human flesh at least once a month?" YEOW! :0Okay, so don't try to eat while reading this book. Really good story. Hybrid of a book: mystery/historical(hysterical?)fiction/horrorWell-researched, well-told, intriguing, creepy. I found myself wishing I'd read Dickens' unfinished Drood n...
The first half of Drood was excellent. Simmons did a wonderful job of catching/drawing Collins and Dickens as well as the London of the time. The book flows extremely well. Sadly, the second half of the book drags a little bit. Once Collins has his face to face encounter with Drood, the tone of the ...
What I learned from this book: a guy who finds Dickens annoying probably ought not to read a book that is a pastiche of Dickensian fiction. (cf., similar experience re guy who hates Hemingway, book on Hemingway.) Three times tried, never creeping far, and now ... abandoned.Bill P, send me a messag...
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