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I started with this book as a bedtime read. It starts innocuous, an unnamed writer implying, "My uncle disappeared for a year after he was on a ship that sank, and then he was recently rescued in a dinghy, and here is his manuscript." I really do not know why this narrative device was popular in literature. (Island of Doctor Moreau was first published in 1896, says wikipedia.) Random dude says that some relative or acquaintance wrote a thing, and that gives it credibility?
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Fairly middling "classic" whose execution doesn't quite match its potential. It suffers somewhat from a late 19th century stilted prose style that doesn't lend itself well to genre fiction. Still, it's a book ahead of its time, and worth a read for its influence on sci-fi and horror.
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