The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is much more fascinating,disturbing than people who only know the movies,tv,comics version of Jekyll,Hyde The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is much more fascinating,disturbing than people who only know the movies,tv,comics version of Jekyll,Hyde story think.
Stevenson is also very good prose wise. I agree with G. K. Chesterton, who said of him that he "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins"....more
I enjoyed the story of the elderly man who lived alone with his sister and their pets. The book so hauntingly conveyed a sense of terrible loneliness I enjoyed the story of the elderly man who lived alone with his sister and their pets. The book so hauntingly conveyed a sense of terrible loneliness and isolation that made me like the story.
I rate 4 stars for the first half of the book,the last pages with the haunting end. The cosmic melodrama,the travel through time,space in the second half was so hard to read and almost destroyed a good story. I was so near to skim pages and i didnt only because i was already a big fan of WHH. That part of the story is worth 2 stars.......more
I enjoyed the military side of the story. Since this is my first Richard Sharpe book i find him to be very compelling,different Historical fiction herI enjoyed the military side of the story. Since this is my first Richard Sharpe book i find him to be very compelling,different Historical fiction hero.
Look forward to reading the other books in the series....more
For a 1920s collection from the early days of hardboiled PI stories this collection has several brilliant stories. Also a main character in the OP whoFor a 1920s collection from the early days of hardboiled PI stories this collection has several brilliant stories. Also a main character in the OP whose narrative is so interesting that he could carry many collections/books more on his own.
The OP is so different from other hardboiled PI's and not only in his looks. He is much more in control of his emotions,actions and only cares about doing his job. The stories are darker, more corrupt world than the latter more traditional detective stories that Marlowe and co is involved in.
Hammett is also after more than just writing entertaining detective stories, his world view at the time he wrote the stories is presented in the stories. A moral detective who cant be bought working in a corrupt society full of white collar crime,organized crime. The stories are more literary than usual detective stories because he tried to portray his world view through The OP and not only because his prose style is very literary strong. The stories in this collection like most of his other writing show clearly he was a detective who wrote what he knew about in his fiction. Other than his writing ability, that his stories feel more real than any other PI stories is what i rate highly.
The OP is really more like a cop or hardboiled FBI agent than what PI heroes became later. He likes working with cops unlike Spade,Marlowe. He is friends with them, he has a big detective agency at his disposal he can call for other operators to shadow people for him. He works in a mundane chase the evidence, look past lies kind of way. His character is very hardboiled PI pioneer but his methods is very different from other famous PI's. Maybe because Hammett Pinkerton, real world crime experience. His stories are not as often clever PI games....more
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