She: A History of Adventure

Real Victorian fiction, filled with long discursive speeches and obsessed with Death. A good adjective for this book is macabre.

Well... it's hard to rate. Because there is so much I dislike in this book. “Oh, an animal, KILL IT!!!” to “I'm a mighty Englishman me!” to “Jews are mean, moneyhungry wolves and deserve to be pogrommed” and all the rest of that stuff. The Leo/Ustane instalove. The constant telling that she's evil, while showing her as anything but evil. There was only once case where she was “evil”, and even that is totally understandable - which even Henry acknowledges in the book.
I suppose we are to pity poor Henry, being born in Victoria's England. What else could he have been?

The story itself is not bad.
She is amazing. I love her.

This is my 2nd classic book read for the month of Nov. (First being “And Then There Were None”! I have seen both movies of “SHE”, 1935 version with Randolph Scott and the 1965 version with Peter Cushing! I liked both movie version and the book version is just as good. It is a bit slow for the 1st 50 pages but once the expedition starts the suspense and thrills begin. This is a fantasy/adventure novel.
SHE, the main character has found the fountain of youth! I won't tell you anymore, Read the book or rent one of the movies, I think you will enjoy!! David N.