Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[sitonmyinterface]

I am reading "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", after having only read the children's classics version as a kid. It's a short one, and (Fun Fact!) Robert Stevenson wrote it in ten weeks time high on cocaine.

I am behind 2 books in my Goodreads reading challenge and I'm trying to "cheat" by breezing through some short novels. They are still books, are they not? I am looking for book recommendations that do not exceed 150-200 pages. IOW, novella recommendations :)

Comments

a classic

[beachglass]

nice.
I have yet to read this one.
another to add to the ever-growing list!! :))

Re: a classic

[sitonmyinterface]

The list never ends :)

Re: a classic

[beachglass]

tell me about it!
:D

[ironymaiden]

Have you read Every Heart a Doorway?

[sitonmyinterface]

No, I shall look into it :) I read the synopsis and sounds interesting. Did you read the whole series?

[ironymaiden]

There are only two, I think. The second one comes out this month.

[smile_n_cuddle]

Good God - 10 weeks and on cocaine. He's so inspirational! (haha jk)

[sitonmyinterface]

Guess that's how you pump out a book. Wonder if that's what some of the current authors do that have a new book every 6 months.

[sibilantmacabre]

Full disclosure: When I was a kid, I found a tape recorder in the depths of the attic. Being an only child, my favourite companions were books, such as novels that had been adapted for children, with Jekyll & Hyde among these. I grabbed the tape recorder and book, and improv'ed an entire 'musical' version of Jekyll & Hyde, flipping through the book and singing various lines to randomly selected tunes. I would kill to have that tape now.

And there's no literary motivator like stimulants. Some of the hallucinatory, wanky-ass shit I used to write at 3:30 a.m....whew.

[sitonmyinterface]

Haha that would be badass to have that tape. I have a cassette of a radio show I made up on my recorder but I have no way to listen to it now.

[tjoel2]

You know, I've actually never read that. I own it, along with a bunch of other classics, but just haven't read it yet. Some of the classics are really hard to read. I thought that I would love Dracula, but couldn't even finish it.

[sitonmyinterface]

I also tried to read Dracula. Didn't get through it.

[tjoel2]

Now I don't feel so bad! Being such a huge horror fan, I just kept thinking, "I should love this book!" and I really didn't.