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paurw's review against another edition
4.0
RL Stevenson era un gran contador de historias, que fue como lo llamaban los aborígenes con quién pasó sus últimos años.
Sus historias tienen sesgos asociados a su época y se genero, pero son historias originales, divertidas, con personajes y situaciones muy curiosos que de verdad uno disfruta mucho.
Me encantaron las historias del Príncipe de Bohemia (Más Mil y Una Noches), El Ladrón de Cadáveres, La Puerta del Señor Maletroit, hay varias historias de las que me voy acordando de repente.
Seguramente revisitaré algunos de estos cuentos.
Obvio que hubo otros que los encontré más aburridos y quizás demasiado largos, pero en su mayoría, me gustaron mucho y me recordaron mis inicios como lectora.
Sus historias tienen sesgos asociados a su época y se genero, pero son historias originales, divertidas, con personajes y situaciones muy curiosos que de verdad uno disfruta mucho.
Me encantaron las historias del Príncipe de Bohemia (Más Mil y Una Noches), El Ladrón de Cadáveres, La Puerta del Señor Maletroit, hay varias historias de las que me voy acordando de repente.
Seguramente revisitaré algunos de estos cuentos.
Obvio que hubo otros que los encontré más aburridos y quizás demasiado largos, pero en su mayoría, me gustaron mucho y me recordaron mis inicios como lectora.
boredomandwordsofbooks's review against another edition
4.0
I started reading this because of the second book in the Beautiful Creatures series. Each of those books references a different classic novel or so I've gathered from the first two books. Jekyll and Hyde was the one referenced in this one. So, since I hadn't read Jekyll and Hyde yet, and had it for free on my Kobo Mini eReader I decided to read it before I went any further in Beautiful Darkness.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows the general plot of Jekyll and Hyde but in case you don't. This book is told from the perspective of a lawyer who is friends with Jekyll and cousins to a person who has had an experience with Hyde. The rest of the book consists of the lawyer trying to figure out who this Hyde was and protect Jekyll from him because he's been described as garish and unpleasant.
It wasn't until the end that we get to the classic story we know and love of a monster and a man trapped in the same body unleashed by this drug Jekyll concocted. This account is from two people, first Lanyon another of Jekyll's friends and then Jekyll himself.
Over all this book was good, the language would have been a little bit annoying had I not had a push dictionary at my disposal. But that's to be expected since this book is very old, when the English language actually had intelligent people.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows the general plot of Jekyll and Hyde but in case you don't. This book is told from the perspective of a lawyer who is friends with Jekyll and cousins to a person who has had an experience with Hyde. The rest of the book consists of the lawyer trying to figure out who this Hyde was and protect Jekyll from him because he's been described as garish and unpleasant.
It wasn't until the end that we get to the classic story we know and love of a monster and a man trapped in the same body unleashed by this drug Jekyll concocted. This account is from two people, first Lanyon another of Jekyll's friends and then Jekyll himself.
Over all this book was good, the language would have been a little bit annoying had I not had a push dictionary at my disposal. But that's to be expected since this book is very old, when the English language actually had intelligent people.
superspecs's review against another edition
4.0
The best thing about this book is that I am less afraid of the murderous Hyde then I am of Jekyll and the curiousity that damns him.
arbieroo's review against another edition
The Pavillion on the Links
Still part of the New Arabian Nights, this is one of those "How I met my wife" adventure stories, more interesting during the mysterious first part than the beleagured on all sides second part. Fun enough, very Stevenson.
Still part of the New Arabian Nights, this is one of those "How I met my wife" adventure stories, more interesting during the mysterious first part than the beleagured on all sides second part. Fun enough, very Stevenson.
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