Mysteries are so hard to review - I mean, what's the by what metric do you gauge them? Surprise? Overall dramatic tension? Writing Style? I'm not even sure myself, but I really liked Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, it had a very different mode than the classical detective tale à la Agatha Christie et...
Gentlefolks in general have a very awkward rock ahead in life--the rock ahead of their own idleness. Their lives being, for the most part, passed in looking about them for something to do, it is curious to see--especially when their tastes are of what is called the intellectual sort--how often they ...
The Moonstone is credited with being one of (if not the) first detective mystery novels, and I wanted to read it because another book I plan to read references it.I liked it. It is the proverbial English country house mystery. Nice little dead ends, twists and fun stuff. Unlikely (and likely) sus...
Listening to the audiobook. I also own a paperback and a leather bound collection of his works - yes, I'm bragging.This author was a contemporary of Charles Dickens so for some reason I thought his books would be serious. This was but there's a lot of a humor in it. It's written as letters from v...
The Moonstone was published in 1868 and is considered by most people to be the first detective novel. Given the novels place in the history of the genre, that alone should put this book on most people's reading lists. To sweeten the pot, the plot is compelling, the last hundred pages I couldn't ha...
This is a great puzzle. A great story it is not, or to be fair: it was not for me. For that I had too much problems with certain aspects, first of all the narrators. There are lots. The book consits of eight narratives (and some additional police-reports) told by six different people. Sometimes thes...
My first introduction to Wilkie Collins was through his most famous novel, The Woman In White, which I read and loved in my pre-blogging days. I enjoyed it so much I promised myself I would read another Collins novel before too long, but it's only now, years later, that I've picked up The Moonstone...
The Moonstone is an epistolary novel, written by Wilkie Collins and first published in 1868. It is set about 20 years earlier. I found the pace of the novel to be a little slow but built to a great end. The central conceit of the novel is that what we are reading is a collection of written statement...
Other thoughts/reviews:Iris on Books: http://irisonbooks.com/2012/10/23/the-moonstone-by-wilkie-collins/my guilty pleasure: http://www.npr.org/2013/08/04/200817044/the-moonstone-is-a-hidden-gem-of-a-detective-novel
I had a difficult time getting into this book. It wasn't until I was about 3/4 through it until it really grabbed me and got my attention. It was a well done "who done it" book, but not nearly as action packed and thrilling as I prefer. Overall I did like it. It's just not going to make my favorites...
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