Question: I've considered reading it, but heard it's rather frightening. How scary is it? I don't like scary and I don't like graphic barbarity either (or gore)? anyway, What's your opinion on the book and do you think I would like it? or something else change one's mind?
Answer: The article goes that Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this unusual in just two days, whilst sick with a fever. His spouse, who was nursing him, read the completed manuscript and deciding it was horse feathers - the deranged ramblings of a very ill man - she threw it onto the fire. Not to be deterred, her husband totally rewrote this story - in another
Cuckoo | Dec 22, 2008