Review: Sluggish!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 19, 2013
Having skimmed through a well thumbed copy that had been passed around all my friends in the sixties, I thought I would have another read of this classic on my Kindle and this time read ALL of it rather than the parts with a page corner turned down! It's taken me a while and how times have changed. I enjoyed it but the writing, compared to modern snappy styles, is so slow and sluggish it felt like wading through treacle half the time. Lots of repetition that slowed down the pace and almost had me skimming again. I know that's the way of the classic author, but it would be nice to see this re-written with a good editing. Not in any naff fifty shades style, but a general tidying up would be good.