by Bram Stoker, Pamela Colman Smith
I usually avoid abridged books like the plague, but I think I nonetheless ended up with an abridged version of Lair of the White Worm. Which is unfortunate. Or maybe not. It’s hard to tell whether this story would be made better or worse by expounding upon it. It starts with long-lost relatives me...
my rating: 4.5Goodreads challenges:2016 Choose Your Own Challenge:a book that you've seen the movie but haven't read the book.what did I think of it:for the last few days since I started I've been listing to it on audio book at loyalbooks.com and I actually enjoyed it a lot better then I thought I w...
But the worm got fat an' grewed an' grewed, An' grewed an aaful size; He'd greet big teeth, a greet big gob, An greet big goggly eyes. - C M Leumane, The Lambton Worm (1867)Bram Stoker, Irish author of the immortal classic Dracula, wrote The Lair of the White Worm a year before his death in 1912. a...
I read this as part of Dracula's Guest and Other Stories. The footnotes were better than the story.
It's hard to believe that the same author who wrote Dracula penned this one. Unbelievably bad plotting, where otherwise interesting characters do astoundingly stupid and ridiculous things just so that the author can have the ending he wanted. Just silly.
You might like this book if you believe in the intrinsic superiority of the white peoples over other races, particularly black folks. Since I really don't feel that way I found myself getting more and more irate until the "savage", intrinsically "primitive" "nigger" got killed off whilst attempting ...
Couldn't finish it. Just not my style and there are too many good books to read.
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