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Mostly you will find, here, transcribed entries from the secret diary that I used to keep as a teenager between 1970 and 1975. I try to be honest with my transcriptions, but, just occasionally I do edit, to protect myself or others from embarrassment or some other emotion.
Also, though, I like to do a brief review of the books I have been reading, so these are interspersed throughout. I reserve the right to write blog entries, also, about other random things.
Why do I keep this blog? I don't know. I am an academic and one of my research interests is around how people construct their own identities. The diary transcriptions, and what I write about my books, are very much about revealing something of my identity.

Tuesday, 26 November 2013

Wilkie Collins - just abandoned

The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins

3/10


Life is too short to listen to a book that takes about 30 mins of listening to cover very little.  I must have read Wilkie Collins before - surely? What about the Woman in White? Don't know - I have seen the film and I do like a good ghost story.
But this was boring, and I though the was trying to do witty character descriptions in the style of Charles Dickens, but couldn't carry it off. So I'll never know what the terrible secret was, that the terrified servant hid in a locked place in the dusty old Myrtle Room, many years ago.
If someone has read this, please tell me what the secret was.

No more Wilkie for me.

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