![]() ![]() Stoker’s gothic drama eschews the sparkles and his bloodsuckers have real bite. Forget everything you think you know about vampires. Watching him corrupt Dorian is like watching a car accident-it’s awful but impossible to look away. Never was there a sharper wit than Oscar Wilde, or a better mouthpiece than Lord Henry Wotton. The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde.Brönte gives you both Edward Fairfax Rochester may be ugly and manipulative and have some serious skeletons in his closet-or attic-but he is still, somehow, hard to resist. That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate a good romance-I just prefer mine with difficult heroes and a hint of danger. Whenever I get a craving for some swordplay, I turn to The Three Musketeers, which is as delightful as it is ridiculous. ![]() But despite the occasional narrative detour, nobody swashbuckles like Dumas. Most of the man’s books run towards 800 pages (probably because the more he produced, the more he got paid). The Three Musketeers, by Alexandre Dumas. ![]()
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