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Summary: There are two sides to every coin.
Review: "I thus drew steadily nearer to that truth, by whose partial discovery I have been lead to this dreadful shipwreck: that a man is not truly one, but truly two." This book travels deep into the heart and soul of one man named Dr. Jekyll. The book will give you a full sense of personality. It not only helps you understand the characters, but it also helps you see which side, your good or your evil, is more developed. The ending will send chills up your spine. Dr. Jekyll is the basic good in the story. He has devoted his life to scientific studies and helping people. The basic villian is Edward Hyde. He is every Evil in existence put into one person. Although Dr. Jekyll is good, his curiousity drove him to unimaginable evil. He decided to explore the evil in himself. He made a potion and drank it. He changed into the horrible Edward Hyde. So you see that what separates this book from the ordinary category, is that the good and the evil exist in one.
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Summary: Very interesting, yet dull texture
Review: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde hasd a very interesting concept, yet it was complicated at times. It's texture was boring, and things were sometimes repeated or explained, which need not to be explained. Stevenson could have, however, expanded his ideas, instead of explaining. Since it had the sense of the mystery, the writer should write the minimum about a subject in order for the reader to understand. Great book, but could have had a little more light. Stevenson, let there be light.
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Summary: One of the most fascinating books I've read!
Review: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a very special book. It is about a doctor, named Jekyll. He is known as a gentleman who works quietly in his lab. What no one knows is that Dr. Jekyll has invented a sort of medicine that changes your whole body. When the medicine is taken, your personality becomes evil and your body turns into an ugly hairy man. When Dr. Jekyll drinks the medicine he, turns into Mr. Hyde. Hyde does everything that Jekyll has ever dreamed of but hasn't had a chance to do. Suddenly things go too far. Hyde murders an old man and there is a witness at the place of the death. Now, the police want Hyde and Dr. Jekyll decides that he shall continue being Jekyll and only Jekyll. But can he really keep away? It is so tempting to live the life of Hyde.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is one of the best books I have read. Even though it has a very dull setting, it is amazingly exciting. You always want to know what happens next. The changing between Jekyll and Hyde is made in a very good way, when the main character is Hyde, he always lives in danger, but when he's Jekyll he can live a perfectly normal life. One of the main points in the story is that you shouldn't use drugs to achieve things that you have always dreamed of, because you can really reach them by yourself. This theme really had an impact on me and got me thinking. Almost anyone can read this book because it is a classic and has been published in so many different versions. I would recommend it to almost anyone.
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Summary: One of the best books I have ever read
Review: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is truly wonderful. It's mysterious, frightening, intriguing, and it draws you in to the strange, twisted world of duality. A must-read for all people!!!
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Summary: A Real Spooky Quickie!
Review: I have always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and I liked Stevenson's novel for the same reasons. Man tries to play God, but God always prevails. This book is a classic page turner...it only took me a couple of hours to read it. A must-read for all those out there who support the cloning movement.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: I have yet to read a book so weird and yet so fascinating... This book delves deeply into the human nature and the demon lurking inside, ready to spring to life. Wonderfully and absorbingly written!
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Summary: Good, but a little disappointing
Review: I thought that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was rather a dull book. It didn't have any lowpoints or strainings of any sort but rather, too much a monotonous tone that is just not quite right. I think that maybe I was expecting a little too much, but still I thought it wasn't as good as I was told. It was well written, the style was OK, the problem was the way the story was built. The idea of someone changing his physical appearance is a good one, but I think it should have gone a little deeper in the minds of the person that experiences it. Instead the other chose to show us a friend of that person, and, for me, it lost most of it's interest. I would have liked to be with Dr Jekyll as he drank his potion to "see" how it happened and all. It's not a bad book, it's just not a great book either. A good book that doesn't have everything it takes to become a great book.
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Summary: Good, but a little disappointing
Review: I thought that Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was rather a dull book. It didn't have any lowpoints or strainings of any sort but rather, too much a monotonous tone that is just not quite right. I think that maybe I was expecting a little too much, but still I thought it wasn't as good as I was told. It was well written, the style was OK, the problem was the way the story was built. The idea of someone changing his physical appearance is a good one, but I think it should have gone a little deeper in the minds of the person that experiences it. Instead the other chose to show us a friend of that person, and, for me, it lost most of it's interest. I would have liked to be with Dr Jekyll as he drank his potion to "see" how it happened and all. It's not a bad book, it's just not a great book either. A good book that doesn't have everything it takes to become a great book.
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Summary: IT ISNT VERY GOOD
Review: IT WAS ONE OF THE CONFUSING,MIXED UP BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ
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Summary: Thrilling mystery at its best!
Review: Jekyll and Hyde is a chilling psychological thriller by Robert Louis Stevenson that immediatly pulls you in and keeps you intrigued. It's almost like a love story between a man's good side and his evil side. Jekyll is a mild mannered physician with a good heart and good intentions, whereas Hyde is an evil monster with a heart of stone and intentions of committing cruel, savage, animal like murders. Dr. Henry Jekyll first turned into Hyde when he consumed a drink he made himself in his laboratory, and changes back to Jekyll with another. It all seems to be working for him...until one day when he takes an overdose of his Hyde potion and can't change back to his normal form. This book taught me that there is an untamed animal hiding inside each and every one of us just waiting to break out, like when we get angry or just go crazy. This book was terrific, and I'm sure that I will read many other Robert Louis Stevenson books.
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