Reviews for The Day's Work

The average rating for The Day's Work based on 2 reviews is 1.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-08-09 00:00:00 Tony Barrett I MEAN, IT WAS KINDA POINTLESS! It felt irrelevant to me. A very decadent piece, and if I was forced to I'm sure I could get enough fuel to write an essay about it, but the story, THE STORY I SAY, wasn't any fun. The instal-love was frustrating, and the characters acted in unrelatable ways. Sorely disappointed, I am! I LOVED LOVED Jekyll & Hyde and The Bottle Imp so I'm not ready to give up on old Stevenson, but please no more like this!

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-29 00:00:00 Todd Larson I've been getting negligent in my reviews of these as of late. Only fourteen left to go! I've been reading through this lot for almost two years! I will get through all eighty eventually, just wait and see. I'll post a spectacular update celebrating the occasion. There might even be cake involved. Well, anyway, on to the book in hand; it's not a very good one, numbered amongst the lowest in my estimation in the collection. It's hard to believe that this was actually written by Robert Louis Stevenson. I mean the man's a literary genius. The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a phenomenal piece of literature. This, well, this was just dreadful. And not in the good sense of Victorian horror either; it's not dreadfully spooky or dreadfully gothic: it's just plain dreadful. Why? Well it barely feels gothic. Yes you have some of the basic tropes, a dark castles and location, but there is no atmosphere in the writing. There is no level of intensity or expectation of what's around the next corner. Instead we have a case of instant love. I'm not overly opposed to this because sometimes it does work when it's handled well. Here, though, it just felt forced. There was no real emotion driving it. Where was the lonely longing that would force someone to love instantly? Where was the desperation and the sense of isolation? Nowhere. Robert Louis Stevenson can write much better than this. Penguin Little Black Classic- 19 The Little Black Classic Collection by penguin looks like it contains alot of hidden gems. I couldn't help it; they looked so good that I went and bought them all. I shall post a short review after reading each one. No doubt it will take me several months to get through all of them! Hopefully I will find some classic authors, from across the ages, that I may not have come across had I not bought this collection.