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Everyone's a little too eager to eat Clayton.

There's a lot going on in this book.

This starts out all about political intrigue and international espionage and blackmail through manufacturing scandals and affairs. And then there's a pistol duel at 10 paces at dawn. Then Tarzan becomes an international secret agent.

I can't choose between the book and the movie. There are enough differences that it's basically two different stories with the same initial premise. Both very good.

If Lady Una of Stormhold is a cat-eared faerie, then why aren't all of the princes also described as cat-eared faeries?

Some bigger differences now.

Many small differences from the movie so far.

Wasn't able to get ahold of the original 1930 text, so I'm reading this post-1960 version.

"Never had there been a slower or more painful method of progression than running."

I agree!

Wow! The great mystery has finally been revealed in chapter 7! The main character in The Invisible Man is...wait for it...invisible!

Seriously, Wells has been beating around the bush for 1/4 of the book, as if we didn't know what we were getting into when we picked up a book called The Invisible Man.

4.5 stars, rounded up to 5.

This is not "flat-out hilarious" as the blurb claims, but it is enjoyable and lightly humourous and doesn't take itself too seriously. It's got vampires, werewolves, zombies, ghosts, necromancers and warlocks in a small desert town in the middle of nowhere in Texas.