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  • 72 of 72 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    JessL

    3 Stars The Strange Case of Katie Price & Jordan 02/04/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Interesting, raises some questions

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Long winded, predictable, doesn't live up to the hype

    The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde was first published in 1886, and is surprisingly short for such an acclaimed book - it has only 88 pages! I read it in school as part of my English Literature coursework and I was expecting it to be pretty good - after all, there have been so many TV programmes, spin offs and dramatisations of it, but I wasn't too impressed! It came out in the 19th century, during which 'classic' novels such as Dracula by Bram Stoker and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley were published. Jekyll And Hyde did really well and has often been described as the best horror story of ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    RichardW

    5 Stars The Werewolf Cometh 20/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Stunningly constructed, shockingly paced, truly chilling, socially challenging... rarely does horror fiction achieve so many of its possibilities in one work.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None whatsoever that I can think of.

    Of all the horror classics, those novels such as 'Dracula', Frankenstein', and 'The Turn of the Screw' which helped to shape and define the genre prior to this century, 'The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde' is perhaps the most powerful I can recommend. The brevity of the text, more a long novella than an actual novel, ensures that where other works invest words upon words to shock and horrify you, this one makes just a few short thrusts to do a cleaner, more powerful job. There can hardly be a reader that does not know at least the outline of this tale, whereby Dr. Henry Jekyll finds a ... more
  • 13 of 13 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    xxsupergirlxo

    3 Stars Jekyll and Hyde - A tale of two men in one body 20/05/2008
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages Sometimes interesting, grotesque

    Disadvantages Disadvantages gets boring

    Stevenson tells us a lot about Victorian society in this book. The upper and middle classes were often superficial and hypocritical with regard to their morality. They thought it was acceptable behaviour to appear respectable on the surface, while at the same time dabbling in various forms of immoral behaviour. In the book, much of the clandestine behaviour occurs when it is foggy or dark, which helps to imply the hidden nature of their immoral behaviour. Poverty and squalor were part of everyday life for the lower classes in the cities of Victorian England. The poor were often desperate so ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Lauren007

    5 Stars Something of a classic 25/05/2008
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Ahead of its time

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Difficult to read because of old language

    This book is a true classic. One of the most awe-inspiring books possibly ever written. I'm completely astounded at the futuristic views Stevenson had and how he could portray his views in such a cunning way. Stenvenson was extremely frowned upon for writing a book like this. His father, like the rest of Victorian England was a devout Christian, therefore the ideas that the book portrayed went completely against religion. the book subtly refers to Charles Darwins theory of evolution but in a backwards way. Hyde being the ape that he is portrayed as and then turning back into Jekyll, the normal ... more
  • 16 of 16 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Bryn_Pearson

    5 Stars Put aside all you think you know 24/05/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages a brilliant story

    Disadvantages Disadvantages far too many cheesey versions

    The trouble with Jekyll and Hyde is that everyone knows about it - through endless repeats, revisions, parodies and the like it has become part of our consciousness and the book that started it all off has suffered greatly for this. When I first read "The strange case...." I could not help but wonder what it would have been like to encounter that book with no preconceived ideas, no notion of where it might be going. The plot is far too well known - Dr Jekyll is a good man dabbling in weird science. He invents a potion that turns him into Mr Hyde - a bestial, violent and unpleasant man. The ... more
  • 38 of 38 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Hybrid

    3 Stars Jekyll and Hyde, A Victorian Horror 09/07/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Characters, especially the evil Edward Hyde

    Disadvantages Disadvantages The middle section is boring and tedious

    Introduction ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ This Victorian classic was written by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1886. The book surprised me as it is only 88 pages long! The book has good points and bad points. The good points are the end as it brings the story to a close with an excellent ending. The main bad point is the exceptional boring middle section to the book where nothing much happens. In that respect the book is similar to the main character(s) as there is a good: Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. This is the same in the book, but there are good and bad points. Setting ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    President-X-D

    5 Stars Hyde is evil incarnate 19/03/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages The story goes right for the throat

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Unrestrained evil awaits the reader within this brief novel. “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” is a novel dealing with human duality and theories to that effect. You already know this Victorian-era story: good Dr. Jekyll brews himself some potions in his laboratory, and after drinking them his body deforms and he becomes the evil Mr. Hyde. We see much of the action through the eyes of witnesses to Hyde’s corrupt deeds. Hyde is a brutal antagonist; he represents a man at his very worst, from his hideous sneer to his violent gaze. Hyde slinks around the city for some time before ... more
  • 2 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    bolte

    1 Star a strange case 29/01/2004
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages the original behind a story everyone knows of

    Disadvantages Disadvantages boring; a big let-down of a supposed classic

    After all these years of hearing different versions of the Jekyl/Hyde story I finally picked up the book. After seeing the story worked into movies, tv shows and other books my entire life, I assumed it had to be an impressive book. It turns out the only good element is the length of the story; I was able to finish it in well under a day and never had to look at it again. This book is supposed to be a classic, but all I got from it was bored. The characters are weak and undeveloped, the plot is linear and predictable (and not just because I knew the general story-line), and the form is dry and ... more
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