Drood  (English, Electronic book text, Simmons Dan)

The first Dan Simmons I read was the 'Song of Kali'. It blew me away. Rarely before have i read something so dark, disturbing, disgusting and yet somehow dazzling. This is my second Simmons, and while it is very different, it is still simply superb. In this, Charles Dickens is seen from the eyes of a jealous co-writer as an over-hyped, farting narcissist, haunted by a phantasm called 'Drood'. There are sewers, Egyptian scarab beetles, opium, murder, jealousy, irreverence and lots of beautiful...