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3.33 AVERAGE
3.33 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
So fucking weird
"The Beetle" is a spooky novel about a supernatural coleoptera from mysterious Egypt and how several people's lives are affected by the Beetle's desire for revenge. Published the same year as Bram Stoker's Dracula, "The Beetle" fits into the zeitgeist of the times with regard to Britain's fascination with ancient Egypt and the occult and weaves an interesting story that would certainly be told quite differently today and that is part of what's enjoyable about this book to me. Catching a glimpse into the mindset of the people in the past and reading a horror story before all the rules for the genre had been set in stone.
Plot is too boring, I don't know what I'm listening to.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
strange aul book. good fun tho until the last act
adventurous
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
A group of Englishmen save a white woman from a cult of intersex Egyptians.
Ugh, this was the most unpleasant, bigoted piece of trash it has been my displeasure to read for some time. AND THAT ENDING.
I started out with high hopes. The first quarter is appropriately mysyerious. But the mystery is revealed to be dull, the characters dull, everything set up with the plot dropped like a deflated baloon, the ending a deus ex machina, via literal train wreck. Written to play off people's cheapest fears, rah rah England, and leave behind a trail of disappointment, apparently. THERE IS A MAD SCIENTIST AND THEY DON'T USE HIS MAD SCIENCE EXCEPT TO KILL A CAT, AND THAT WASN'T EVEN AT THE END OF THE BOOK.
Reread Dracula instead.
Ugh, this was the most unpleasant, bigoted piece of trash it has been my displeasure to read for some time. AND THAT ENDING.
I started out with high hopes. The first quarter is appropriately mysyerious. But the mystery is revealed to be dull, the characters dull, everything set up with the plot dropped like a deflated baloon, the ending a deus ex machina, via literal train wreck. Written to play off people's cheapest fears, rah rah England, and leave behind a trail of disappointment, apparently. THERE IS A MAD SCIENTIST AND THEY DON'T USE HIS MAD SCIENCE EXCEPT TO KILL A CAT, AND THAT WASN'T EVEN AT THE END OF THE BOOK.
Reread Dracula instead.
This Victoria gothic was a contemporary of Dracula, and it's just as spooky and enjoyable. Perhaps the reason it didn't make as sure a place for itself as Dracula is it's revealing of Victorian fears of the Oriental.