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 :)

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[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.