Drood

It's finally over. Wow, that was a long book (and I've read all three LOTR books in a stretch.) I don't think they took as long.

While I thought the book was somewhat interesting, I'm not sure what tale the author was trying to tell. I thought it fell short as a mystery. It was an odd biography of Dickens (if that was the point). The only "moral" I could glean is that opiates make one hallucinate scary things. Ok, so...

The publisher and editor obviously found merit in this story that I didn't. I'm with Karen, this would have been more interesting as an 800 page book (or a 400 pager). Even so, I didn't get any tingles in my spidey-sense, so I'm giving this an "I didn't hate it, but I wasn't wow'ed" rating.

Off it goes to PBS.