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A review by lory_enterenchanted
The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier
Did not finish book. Stopped at 55%.
I got 2/3 of the way through, but then I read the ending on Wikipedia and decided I did not need to bother with the rest.
I do not get on with time travel novels which are just about watching the past like virtual reality TV and not actually interacting with it. On top of that, the story in the past was dull, and the people in the present day were unpleasant. Absolutely no idea what Dick and Vita ever saw in each other, and I would not want to be married to either of them.
And finally, how dumb do you have to be to take a drug that will cause you to roam all over the place, mind elsewhere, body doing who knows what? It's remarkable it took so many "trips" before a fatal accident occurred.
(If this is meant to be a cautionary tale about getting caught up in a fictional story and losing touch with the real world, at least reading books does not involve such obvious physical dangers. Geez.)
I do not get on with time travel novels which are just about watching the past like virtual reality TV and not actually interacting with it. On top of that, the story in the past was dull, and the people in the present day were unpleasant. Absolutely no idea what Dick and Vita ever saw in each other, and I would not want to be married to either of them.
And finally, how dumb do you have to be to take a drug that will cause you to roam all over the place, mind elsewhere, body doing who knows what? It's remarkable it took so many "trips" before a fatal accident occurred.
(If this is meant to be a cautionary tale about getting caught up in a fictional story and losing touch with the real world, at least reading books does not involve such obvious physical dangers. Geez.)