The House on the Strand
1 out of 5 stars
Dick Young agrees to take an experimental drug that his friend Magnus has been developing in his lab. Magnus claims that the mind, under the influence of the drug, will time travel back to the 1330s, while the body stays in the present. Dick becomes obsessed with the people he meets back in history, taking more and more of the drug to continue visiting the past, even when it puts him in danger and he becomes addicted to the drug. He ignores his family and the responsibilities of his life, focused only on acquiring more of the drug so that he can discover the fate of the beautiful Lady Isolda in Medieval Cornwall.
I hated this book so much. I swore I would never read another du Maurier book again, yet here I am. The whole story is full of nasty things and disturbing immoral scenes.
I hated Dick’s character. It was distressing to read about his descent into addiction, as he first makes excuses, and reasons away his growing need for the drug. By the end, he is scheming to hide his addiction from his wife and his doctor, lying to everyone, and careless of how he harms them or himself.
The nasty, immoral, and objectionable content in this book has been screened on the Screen It First website, so you can check it out and decide for yourself. https://screenitfirst.com/book/the-house-on-the-strand-1169152
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