Recap of Novels 131-140

Average rating of novels 131-140 – 3.8 stars (out of 5)

131.  ★★★½                 Picnic at Hanging Rock

132.  ★★★★½             The Oak Openings

133.  ★★★½                   The Day of the Triffids

134.  ★★★½                 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

135.  ★★★½                 Through the Looking Glass

136.  ★★★★                 Coraline
137.  ★★★★                 A Christmas Carol
138.  ★★★★½             Dracula

139.  ★★★½                 The Universal Baseball Association

140.  ★★★★                 Lost Horizon

Favorite: Dracula

Honorable Mention: The Oak Openings

Least Favorite: The Day of the Triffids

Best Alternate Title: The Bee Hunter – which I think is a better, though less commonly used, title for The Oak Openings

Best Hero: Parson Amen from The Oak Openings

Best Heroine: Mina Harker from Dracula

Most Villainous: Count Dracula

Dishonorable Mention: Other Mother from Coraline

Most interesting/Complex character: Onoah, Native American from The Oak Openings

Best Quotation: Listen to them – the children of the night. What music they make! ~ Count Dracula referring to the howling of wolves

Runner Up: “You know,” he added very gravely, “it’s one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle – to get one’s head cut off”. ~ Tweedle Dee

Best film adaptation: Coraline

There are pretty good film versions of all of these, except The Oak Openings and The Universal Baseball Association, which I don’t believe have been adapted to film. I believe I read somewhere that A Christmas Carol has been adapted to film more than any other work of literature.

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