In cloisteresque Cloisterham, John 'Jack' Jasper lives with his ward and nephew, Mister Edwin Drood, and teaches music to Drood's own betrothed-the beguiling Rosa. Meanwhile, arriving at Cloisterham, the Landless twins, Neville and Helena of exotic advantage, cause a disruption to the quiet and mono...
It's hard to have much opinion on a book the author left half finished. In my edition (pantheon books, 1980) the story is completed by Leon Garfield. He did an okay job. I hear there are better editions, but I moved on.
Dickens! Even when he is infuriatingly verbose, he is still eminently readable. There were so many wonderful characters -- Mr. Crisparkle, Miss Twinkleton, Durdles, Helena Landless, Mr. Grewgious, the Billiken. I was even fond of Rosa and poor Edwin, who were probably the most boring of the lot. Is ...
Probably could have been a great book if it had an ending or we at least knew what happened. Far bleaker and creepy than any other Dickens work. I really like Drood but hate the people who tried to write endings for it (and the endings they wrote).
Other thoughts/reviews:The Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/04/mystery-edwin-drood-dickens-bbcWuthering Expectations: http://wutheringexpectations.blogspot.be/2012/08/the-mystery-in-mystery-of-edwin-drood.htmlRead in a Single Sitting: http://www.readinasinglesitting.com/2012/11/21/...
Well . . . it picked up toward the end. I'm sorry that Dickens never finished this work; two characters, Mr. Datchery adn the Puffer PRincess, introduced just before Dickens passed, added a bit of depth to the novel that it was lacking in earlier chapters. Mr. Crisparkle, who came off as such a ninn...
Unfinished works of art are often sources of great mystery. Mozart's Requiem, Fitzgerald's The Love of the Last Tycoon, a whole raft of Hemingway novels foisted upon the public post-Papa, Herge's Tintin and Alph-Art, several projects of Orson Welles, the list goes on and on. The common question is, ...
I'll tell you one thing for free-----the ending sucked! :DI don't know how to rate a book that's only half-written due to author demise. It's not my habit to read unfinished novels. I only read this so I could see Dan Simmons' jumping-off point for his recent Drood novel. Simmons used very little...
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