The Island of Dr. Moreau

I finished Wells The Island of Dr Moreau.I found his ''youthful blasphemy'' as he himself termed it,fascinating and quite a bit of a shocker.,on the verge of being a horror book.All sorts of interesting themes ,such as scientific ethics,just what is humanity,our relationship to the natural world and more.All wrapped up in a cracking adventure story.Dr Moreau was repulsive but fascinating.Wells's victorian readers would have just found him an over the top evil villain,but sadly we had a real life Doctor Moreau in Dr Mengele in Nazi Germany,so it comes closer to home.Certainly Dr Moreau makes Victor Frankenstein look like a weak pussy cat by comparison.:) It was a brilliant stroke to make the narrator not some upright goody goody hero type,but a vacillating,pusillanimous self obsessed whiner.Good stuff!