Rach's Reading Club

Thanks for a fab review. I read this book last year, and, I've got to say, I agree with your summary of it. I found myself quite bored and longing for the end. I'm glad I read it because it's a classic, but I didn't enjoy it. It's interesting you pick up on the long sentences. This is part of what I wrote in my product review of this book:
"In terms of the author’s style, I had to keep reminding myself it was published over 130 years ago. Styles were completely different then. Even so, I found it hard to read the run-on sentences and abundance of semicolons. Also, the way that the narrator is not Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde, but a solicitor, Mr Utterson, who knew both men, bugs me. This immediately removes the reader from the story. It removes them from the action. It removes them from the danger. And it irritated me big time. I found it hard to get into this, and the only saving grace is how short it is.

So, all in all, I think I probably should have read a Stephen King. Maybe, I will in future weeks. But I won’t be returning to this again, and not because of the horror genre, but because of the author’s style. It is really not my bag."