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A review by glindaaa
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde with the Merry Men & Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson
3.0
So it took me quite a while to read this and I don't know why (yes I do, I was playing Pokémon on the DS) anyway, I never knew the story about Jekyll and Hyde, I only knew it was a classic and thus that's the reason why I read it.
It's very different from what I expected and at first I didn't like it, as to why to start with the doctor and the lawyer.. but than I got that it was an introduction of Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll a little later. The interesting parts were the letters that were giving the information about what the story of Jekyll and Hyde meant and it is so much more than just a story. Here comes the spoiler, but it means that one person is not just one person or more or less. You got two sides of the same coin inside you, Jekyll makes it outside of yourself but that's beside the point and it's not fair to be judged for only one. Makes me curious what Stevenson wanted to explain with this story or what the meaning was behind and maybe I'll google this later.
I'm not going to review everything but after I struggled to get through Jekyll and Hyde, I came to the Merry Men which started very interesting until that Uncle came.. I didn't understand a word he was saying as I could barely read it and the story just ended a little weird. Just because the uncle met a black man, he went totally insane and by trying to get the uncle back into the house, he and the black man drowned. What kind of end to the story is that. There was so much more, what now happens to Charlie and Mary? I thought that was more interesting than an insane uncle if you ask me.
Than I came to Will of the Mill and that was even better but it went a little bit on too long if you ask me. Still best story of the book.
It's very different from what I expected and at first I didn't like it, as to why to start with the doctor and the lawyer.. but than I got that it was an introduction of Mr. Hyde and Dr. Jekyll a little later. The interesting parts were the letters that were giving the information about what the story of Jekyll and Hyde meant and it is so much more than just a story. Here comes the spoiler, but it means that one person is not just one person or more or less. You got two sides of the same coin inside you, Jekyll makes it outside of yourself but that's beside the point and it's not fair to be judged for only one. Makes me curious what Stevenson wanted to explain with this story or what the meaning was behind and maybe I'll google this later.
I'm not going to review everything but after I struggled to get through Jekyll and Hyde, I came to the Merry Men which started very interesting until that Uncle came.. I didn't understand a word he was saying as I could barely read it and the story just ended a little weird. Just because the uncle met a black man, he went totally insane and by trying to get the uncle back into the house, he and the black man drowned. What kind of end to the story is that. There was so much more, what now happens to Charlie and Mary? I thought that was more interesting than an insane uncle if you ask me.
Than I came to Will of the Mill and that was even better but it went a little bit on too long if you ask me. Still best story of the book.