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Title: The Hysterian
Review: Great researcher, terrible storyteller without a clue about dramatic development or the ability to deliver a thrill. It's so hard to slog through 600-odd pages of story within a story within a story, that you forget the hundreds of annoying and overblown sentences and passages that break the cardinal rule about "showing" emotions, dramatic moments, etc., rather than "telling" them with mind-clogging adjectives. Also, one of the leading characters (it's amazing I just finished the book but have already forgotten his name: Rossi's student, Helen's lover/husband is an absolute wimp whose heart is always "trembling, palpitating," whatever.) And who really believed (or cares) he loved his mentor Rossi so much he'd chase him all over. (In grad school, I wished my mentor could have been spirited away to hell!)Do yourself a favor: see Coppola's movie and reread Bram Stoker.
