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Once upon I was curious and dump kid who was big fan of black and white thriller movies. ( when I caught Hitchcock disease: which is an illness about non stop watching and being obsessed with thrillers of Hitchcock directed, I was only six) And that dump kid’s face was nearly glued to the screen when the first time she watched Spencer Tracy’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ( Ingrid Bergman was also adorable as always playing Ivy Peterson) A scientist creates a potion to bring out the darkness he restrained for years! But slowly darkness controls his entire body, freeing the violent self of the person! Let’s say goodbye to kind, dedicated scientist Dr. Jekyll and let’s party with Mr. Hyde!

After watching that movie, I was planning to read that book for years. Today is the day I chose to accomplish that plan. But I have to admit: mostly I prefer books to their adaptations. This time I’m thinking exactly the opposite! I’m soooooo BORED! I want to go to bed but it’s only 10 a.m. in the morning! Why the hell a lawyer tells this entire story! Who cares about his client’s will! The story can be perfectly told via diaries of Dr. Jekyll ( or his both identities which will be more informative to see the psychological and physical changes of him)

I know it’s written on 1886 but it’s not an excuse to find a sensitive plot line about mad scientist’s research true nature of human being in expanse of losing his own humanity by turning into a beast and executing it poorly! This is definitely waste of true potential!

I’m giving three stars because of its brilliant plot ! But skipping the book and watching movie adaptations is far better choice!

Here are my favorite quotes:

“You must suffer me to go my own dark way.�

“With every day, and from both sides of my intelligence, the moral and the intellectual, I thus drew steadily nearer to the truth, by whose partial discovery I have been doomed to such a dreadful shipwreck: that man is not truly one, but truly two�

“All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone, in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil.�

“Jekyll had more than a father's interest; Hyde had more than a son's indifference.�

“It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.�