 Hello everybody, it's Keith at 30 seconds sci-fi recording my latest book review Which is the strange case of dr. Jekyll and mr. Hyde and it is supposed to be pronounced Jekyll By the way, but before I do that. I want to invite everybody to participate in the upcoming famous monsters month at my 50th Street studio live streams every Saturday evening at 6 p.m. Pacific We will be watching a double feature of the great classic monster movies. That's five Saturdays in October 10 movies See there All right to keep it simple. I did not like this book. I didn't enjoy it It's really not a book. It's not even a novella. It's really a short story. It's only about a hundred pages long published in 1886 in an overly flowery and long-winded writing style, which I feel was It would have been archaic even for the time like like something from the 1700s and As is usual with most of these old stories, it's written entirely in the past tense. The action has already happened It's being told by a gentleman who witnessed the whole thing in the form of a letter In this case There's a particular instance when it's taken to such an extreme that The story is being told in a letter and at one point he describes opening a letter from another man Who is describing his story of the encounter and He goes on in the letter writer within the letter writing Tells a story of something that he witnessed in the past. It's taken to ridiculous extremes It was clumsy And it's not the story that of course we think it is these days we think of Dr. Jekyll drinking the potion and basically turning into the Incredible Hulk He actually gets smaller and younger and very pale The few people who see him as Mr. Hyde think that he's a dwarf Those who see his face think that he is deformed they think that he's not even human He's never he's not described as being hairy or having Huge gnashing teeth. He only kills one guy It gets mad at a guy in the street beats him with a cane He drinks some poison and commits suicide rather than be found out There's not much to it the the writing and publishing and Subsequent adaptation of the story into a play And later in the film is a much more interesting story in fact I found a BBC documentary about that very thing that I will link to in the description below go watch that instead of reading The story, I don't know. It's a short story. You can read it. Anyway, if you want I wasn't impressed Thank you for watching. Please contribute at the links on screen and in the description below to help me Continue to make videos you can make a one-time contribution or make a monthly pledge See you next review. Bye