Yes remus though it is disturbing to me how few others you can recommend as heartily considering how many you read. I shall never look upon its like again 
Glad you enjoyed it splother 
Speaking of This Thing of Darkness I acknowledge mine latest book:
21. Hag-Seed Margaret Atwood
This is a reworking of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, as part of a series by different authors. I should say that I LOVE The Tempest, it is one of my favourites and I have seen it live numerous times, so this could have fallen very flat indeed with me, but actually Atwood approaches it from such a sideways angle that it has its own charm and layers of interest, whilst weaving through the ideas from the original, echoing it, without imitating it as such. At first I found the writing style and lead character, Felix, somewhat reminiscent of the narrative voice in Coetzee’s Disgrace - a middle aged man trapped in the past, but the dark tone eventually opens up into quite an enjoyable romp. Felix, an established theatre director, is usurped from his role by the machinations of others, and so goes into seclusion, plotting his revenge, whilst grieving the loss of a loved one. When the opportunity comes to run a literacy course for prisoners, he uses his theatrical skills to turn them into actors and onto Shakespeare, with an eye to staging a cathartic production of The Tempest and get back at his enemies in the process. Play within a play within a play about a play high jinks ensue, and it’s all rather good fun if you go along with it, with some nuanced discussion of the play’s themes which set me falling in love with it all over again. Whilst I didn’t love the book itself quite as much, it was good to look at an old friend in a new way, and the distinct storyline of the novel ended up being quite moving and cleverly realised, if the journey was a little far fetched. If you were not familiar with the original I’m not sure how you’d find it. There is a synopsis at the back, but much of what I got out of it was the ways it set me thinking again and in different ways about a play I was already familiar with, and I liked picking up on the references within the text, so not sure how it plays as “an introduction”. It is well written though, as one might expect, and the second half flew by as the plot came together.
I think I’m going on to Mermaid next as I’ve had a slow old time of it lately.