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Summary: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Review: Excellent book! Easy to read and index of terms in the back make for easy reference for Old English terms. Other stories are worth a look as well. I never realized the author had written so many macabre stories. It was fun and interesting.
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Summary: Some Good, some bad....*Read BEFORE buying*
Review: I was excited to read this book for soley one purpose... to read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Once I was done that, I moved on to good and bad stories. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: This story was actually very good and was the reason I read it. I was satisfied with this story, though the person who needs constant action to keep their attention shouldn't read this as much of it is Utterson investigating. THE BODY SNATCHER: This book started out shaky and was at first hard to follow, but once you get some pages behind you, you'll understand it well enough. The ending (I won't give it away) is also VERY strange and it is hard to understand. MARKHEIM: Ah! Markheim! One of the better written of these tales. It is easy to understand and is cleverly written, and does not drag on and on like some other tales in this book. It is a VERY GOOD story. OLALLA: This was one of those books that you couldn't wait to find out what happens and then it suddenly just lets you down. It leads up to so much and then doesn't deliver! THE EBB TIDE: The longest of the tales in this book...which makes you wonder...why wasn't the book named: The Ebb Tide and Other Stories? (Because Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde was best known of course!) The first few chapters in this tale make you wonder whether this story will turn out to be good, but then as the story progresses you realise that the tale is getting better and better (this is probably due to fact that Stevenson worked on this with another author and the more chapters written became more and more Stevenson, the first few chapters being the other author, and the end being all Stevenson.) So your question now is: Do I buy? Don't get me wrong, some stories in this book are good, but others dragged on. If you are interested in the following: -Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
-Markheim
-Ebb Tide (Last few chapters are best) ...then by all means get this book! If you are just getting it because you need something to read, sleep on it, then make your desicion! Hope I helped!
Rating:
Summary: Some Good, some bad....*Read BEFORE buying*
Review: I was excited to read this book for soley one purpose... to read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Once I was done that, I moved on to good and bad stories. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: This story was actually very good and was the reason I read it. I was satisfied with this story, though the person who needs constant action to keep their attention shouldn't read this as much of it is Utterson investigating. THE BODY SNATCHER: This book started out shaky and was at first hard to follow, but once you get some pages behind you, you'll understand it well enough. The ending (I won't give it away) is also VERY strange and it is hard to understand. MARKHEIM: Ah! Markheim! One of the better written of these tales. It is easy to understand and is cleverly written, and does not drag on and on like some other tales in this book. It is a VERY GOOD story. OLALLA: This was one of those books that you couldn't wait to find out what happens and then it suddenly just lets you down. It leads up to so much and then doesn't deliver! THE EBB TIDE: The longest of the tales in this book...which makes you wonder...why wasn't the book named: The Ebb Tide and Other Stories? (Because Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde was best known of course!) The first few chapters in this tale make you wonder whether this story will turn out to be good, but then as the story progresses you realise that the tale is getting better and better (this is probably due to fact that Stevenson worked on this with another author and the more chapters written became more and more Stevenson, the first few chapters being the other author, and the end being all Stevenson.) So your question now is: Do I buy? Don't get me wrong, some stories in this book are good, but others dragged on. If you are interested in the following: -Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde
-Markheim
-Ebb Tide (Last few chapters are best) ...then by all means get this book! If you are just getting it because you need something to read, sleep on it, then make your desicion! Hope I helped!
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Summary: Well written
Review: This book was well written and it was realistic. In the sense that this fiction book with it several stories could have happened in real life. I expecially liked the story of 'Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'. It showed that everyone could have a dark side waiting to come out if given the chance. I give it 5 stars out of 5 for originality and for the joy of having read it.
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