I’ve been working on completing the book Drood by Dan Simmons. I’ve never read any of Dan Simmons’ books, but I’ve been completely engrossed in Drood. The narrator of this story is Wilkie Collins. The storytelling technique is a very candid account to future readers written in 1865 of the last five years of Charles Dickens’ life after a train crash. In some ways, this book is a very long (773 pages) engaging letter not to be published until a few hundred years after the narrators death. Wilkie Collins is an intimate friend (remember back in 1865 the connotation of intimate friend is different) of Charles Dickens; they are both authors and Wilkie writes for Dickens’ magazine on a regular basis. [read more…]
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