{"id":15628,"date":"2024-05-14T07:23:15","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T06:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=15628"},"modified":"2024-05-14T07:23:15","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T06:23:15","slug":"book-review-jeckyll-hyde-rls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=15628","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: Jeckyll &amp; Hyde, RLS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"707\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_1822-1-707x1024.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-15626\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_1822-1-707x1024.jpg 707w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_1822-1-207x300.jpg 207w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_1822-1-768x1112.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_1822-1-1061x1536.jpg 1061w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_1822-1.jpg 1381w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 707px) 100vw, 707px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/stars_08_four-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-15627\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/stars_08_four-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/stars_08_four-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first thing that surprised me about this classic tale, is it\u2019s brevity. I hadn\u2019t realised it is, in essence, a short story. Because of this it\u2019s almost always published with other appended stuff. And often quite a bit if the latter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Penguin English Library edition adds The Bottle Imp, also by RLS, and a short essay <em>not<\/em> by the author, (?). But it was the slimmest\/cheapest version I could find at the Ely branch of Topping Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It could easily be read in one day. If all or most of that day was given over to it. As it was, with work and other life stuff intervening &#8211; inc. a lot of sleeping in my case &#8211; it took me two days. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first thing that surprised me about this classic tale, is it\u2019s brevity. I hadn\u2019t realised it is, in essence, a short story. Because of this it\u2019s almost always published with other appended stuff. And often quite a bit if the latter. This Penguin English Library edition adds The Bottle Imp, also by RLS, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=15628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: Jeckyll &amp; Hyde, RLS&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-444","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}