![]() ![]() Read purely as an adventure, this is a dark and terrifying story indeed, from the first pages when Prendick and his fellow survivors are afloat on an open sea with no food and running out of fresh water, to the scenes on the island when Dr Moreau’s experiments go horrifically wrong. ![]() It’s about mad science, vivisection and evolution, and it contains some truly terrifying imagery. a man shipwrecked on a small island inhabited by the titular Dr Moreau. Darryl Jones, who has edited several horror and science fiction books for Oxford World’s Classics, is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity College, and has been one of my chief guides to these genres. It’s apparently largely set in Trinity College, Dublin. I haven’t read it, but the very long blurb on Goodreads (which I therefore won’t quote) tells me this is about two young people who spiral into some form of mutually-destructive relationship. The idea is to start with the book that Kate gives us and then create a chain of six books, each suggested by the one before. ![]() Six Degrees of Separation is a monthly meme hosted by Books Are My Favourite and Best. ![]()
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