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I'm glad I read this but I think in this day and age the story is more valuable as a pop culture touchpoint/archetype/whatever. TBH I think whatever you already know about Jekyll & Hyde is sufficient and unless you are doing an academic deep dive of some sort, you can get by just fine without ever reading this actual book.
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Richard Armitage is one of my favorite audiobook narrators and this was a great performance. I wish I could erase the cultural exposure that gives an automatic spoiler to books like this. It doesn't make a big difference to have a spoiler in books like Anna Karenina or Les Miserables, but it is everything in a book like this.
That being said, I'm still rating it full marks because it is such a powerful story: how shame and secrecy are destructive and the avenues we go down to cope with or suppres ...more
That being said, I'm still rating it full marks because it is such a powerful story: how shame and secrecy are destructive and the avenues we go down to cope with or suppres ...more
The cover art on classics is so weird. Who is that cigar-puffing man supposed to be? Jekyll? Hyde? Henry Poole? Lancaster?
As I was listening to this audiobook, I found myself trying to remember a time when I didn't know the story of Jeckyll and Hyde. I remember encountering in the musical in high school but feel as if I already knew the story before that. At any rate, despite a sort of cultural familiarity with this story, I was pleasantly surprised that there were aspects about it I didn't know ...more
As I was listening to this audiobook, I found myself trying to remember a time when I didn't know the story of Jeckyll and Hyde. I remember encountering in the musical in high school but feel as if I already knew the story before that. At any rate, despite a sort of cultural familiarity with this story, I was pleasantly surprised that there were aspects about it I didn't know ...more
The description of other characters' interpretations of the alarming changes in Jekyll and the sheer creepiness of Hyde are surprisingly unnerving. I was expecting this book to read pretty tamely by today's standards, but I think I am going to spend tonight reconsidering if I really know anyone in my life.
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A doctor creates a strange brew which relieves him of a conscience...for a time...and brings out the presence of one Mr. Hyde. I enjoy this story because of all the religious issues it raises...agency and accountability, good and evil, conscience and the light of Christ, responsibility and consequences, etc. It's quite a profound tale.
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Jul 26, 2010
Ian
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