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Moonstone, the (Penguin Popular Classics)
Average customer rating: 1 out of 5 stars
  • Go ahead and yawn, you won't miss anything
 Moonstone, the (Penguin Popular Classics)
Wilkie Collins
Manufacturer: Penguin Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars Go ahead and yawn, you won't miss anything.......2007-05-08

I understood that The Moonstone is a classic so I decided to read this to be culturally literate. Well the story line may be interesting but the writing is atrocious. It is curricular, bloated, and seemingly pointless.

The characters just keep rattling. A lot of writers fill in the story with descriptions of time and place to give an atmosphere to the story. This writer (Wilkie Collins) just fills it with unrelated trivia.

Every once in a while I would go back a few pages to see what I must have missed. When I read again there was nothing there to miss. Ether Wilkie is extremely monotonous or other writing from this period is and I am just now lucky enough to find out.

I talked to others about this and they said; "Now you know why Sherlock Holmes is so popular" (as an alternative which is much better written)


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