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Dickens clearly left it half written on purpose.... Mats imaginary friend Send a noteboard - 06/06/2010 04:08:54 AM
First you should know that The Mystery of Edwin Drood was Charles Dickens' last novel. It was left only half finished at his death, and no one knows how it was supposed to end. Simmons is not the first to find inspiration in this state of events. He is not even the first to write his own mystery story with Dickens' novel figuring somewhere at the centre. But he is the first that I know of to make his mystery so completely over the top.


He left it half written so that it would be the greatest "mystery" novel, in the truest sense of the word, for all time.
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/Other Literature: Drood by Dan Simmons - 02/06/2010 10:47:13 PM 5435 Views
I'm about 200 pages in and I've found the first thing that really annoys me: - 02/06/2010 11:15:33 PM 1726 Views
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Suspect I am getting there. - 03/06/2010 11:49:16 PM 1550 Views
There are (okay, were, I'm temporarily living in the 1890s...) MPs who are styled Lord, though. - 02/06/2010 11:22:33 PM 1596 Views
Link me, please? - 02/06/2010 11:31:01 PM 1574 Views
Sure. - 02/06/2010 11:46:32 PM 1963 Views
Thanks. - 03/06/2010 11:48:47 PM 1522 Views
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Haven't got round to that yet. Been busy. Patience. *NM* - 05/06/2010 03:50:13 PM 850 Views
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edwin drood edwin drood - 04/06/2010 10:35:51 AM 1525 Views
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Have now finished it. - 04/06/2010 04:30:48 PM 1508 Views
*spoiler* - 04/06/2010 04:32:19 PM 1625 Views
Dickens clearly left it half written on purpose.... - 06/06/2010 04:08:54 AM 1646 Views
You are not the first to suggest that - 06/06/2010 10:32:45 AM 1502 Views

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