Teaser Tuesdays: Dickensian People

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Well, I’m still working my way through Drood … not because it is a bad novel or boring, but I’ve just been rather listless this last week and just haven’t been able to get myself to do much, that’s particularly bad not only because I have a 777-page book to get through (which ain’t gonna happen to count it for 2009) but I’ve also got a syllabus to re-jigger for the Winter quarter and, well … you don’t care about my woes … here’s this week’s Teaser from Dan Simmons’ Drood:

Drood

by Dan Simmons

(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2009)

Hardcover, 777 Pages, Fiction

ISBN: 9780316007023, US$26.99

MY TEASER: “(Even that impertinent mayfly young Mr. Dickenson seemed a character out of a Dickens novel—orphaned, with his rich Guardian and Chancery-endowed fortune, listless, aimless, given only to reading and lazing about. What extra stretch was there to believe in a ‘Mr. Drood’ with his leprous appearance, missing fingers and eyelids, and lisping utterances?)” (60).