SuperSummary: Study Guide (2019, Independently Published)
English language
Published 2019 by Independently Published.
Gorgeously described like all her work, yet tied to tightly to a certain time it is hard to pluck the point from the style.
Wonderful.
This broad class of book (folk navigating polite society with a world history backdrop) is not something I typically reach for. I came for Towles though, whose [b:You Have Arrived at Your Destination|49665863|You Have Arrived at Your Destination|Amor Towles|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1563468097l/49665863.SX50_SY75.jpg|72182622] was my favorite entry in Blake Crouch's Forward Collection. In his notes about the collection, Crouch gushed about Towles in general and this book in particular. The praise is all well-deserved: the writing is excellent, the characters beautifully drawn. There are memorable/quotable lines overflowing from this book, and little risk of an idle highlighter.
A great book to a start of a new series. Well developed characters, and well written. Im looking forward to more in the series.
This is a magnificent novel. I truly enjoyed the tale. Much like the writings of James Hilton, this author offers an outstanding and enjoyable study of human behaviors, motivations, emotions, and dynamics.
I plan to read more by this truly wonderfully skilled author.
I'm going to copy my review from The Sinner Book 1, because it is so apt:
I absolutely MUST have a hard copy of this book. It is a necessity for any library that also has Dante's Comedy. This is the only novel that has ever held a candle to Dante Alighieri. I didn't expect prose, but I got it, and I loved it. This is a book I will come back to again and again.
If you like prose (that isn't nearly as inaccessible as Dante) and you love a good fable steeped in religious stories and lore, you'll love this series.
This was an enjoyable read but I can't say I was as taken with Count Rostov, Aristocrat Superhero, as others on here (but he appreciates all the wine! he has superhuman manners!). I guess I never felt bad for him. The adulation this book has been receiving is odd to me but to each his own.
This is one of my favorite movies, so I decided to read the book. I will tell you this, this author writes like nothing I have read before, I at first I hated it. Once I got used to his cadence and delivery, however, I came to appreciate his (very) unique writing style. It wouldn't work anywhere else, but for some reason it works here. I like the story, it's just as dark and depressing as the movie, but it adds to the movie. It's not one is better than the other, rathe they compliment each other very well. I'd recommend reading this if you're a fan of the movie, or even if you just like a good junkie love story :-)
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So great!!
What a great read. It is set in the future as are all the other books in the series. I read the others and enjoyed them as well. If you like dystopian genre, then this is a series to check out. Highly recommend
I felt this book was okay. I didn't really see the bonds of women friendship. I felt like absolutely every single character was super unhappy, and that was kind of hard to read about. I also didn't really feel like the story went anywhere.
A somewhat amateurish, but still enjoyable, giant monster book. It has a really fast pace that is hampered by predictable beats, and the characters are pretty thin. However, the Meso-American mythology was refreshingly unusual for books like this, and the stompy action was satisfying.
It's rare that I enjoy a collection of short stories as much as this one, and if I do, it's usually all from one author. Interestingly, and somewhat annoyingly, each short story had an even shorter little into. This would have been useful in the table of contents, rather than directly in front of each story. It would make reviewing each story easier, rather than just being an extra page to flip past. I didn't read a single one after the first.
Like many people, when I think of rats, I think of fleas, filth, and the plague.
Imagine if you will, a world where rats do not carry disease, but cure it. Where instead of killing rats as pests they must be preserved because their blood has the power to heal. When these rats go missing from the lab, it first seems that they may have been stolen. But as the body count goes higher, it's clear these rats have had enough of being experimented on. After a while the rat attacks did get a bit repetitive for my taste but I did still enjoy the story.
I don't usually get into books about government experiments gone awry, but this had a good Sci-Fi/horror/creature feature vibe to it that held my interest.
I received a complimentary copy for review.
I am glad I read this book alongside listening to the Audiobook of Dopesick. I couldn't have asked for a better fiction/nonfiction pairing about the consequences of heroin addiction. This is a dark story and I personally found Selby's stream-of-conscious prose and his play with grammar entertaining. The surface level of this story is about the ramifications of heroin use, particularly how the addicts constant quest to avoid dopesickness really constricts their vision of the future and, therefore, their dreams. There is also a condemnation of the 'American Dream' interpreted as the never-ending rat-race to accumulate material possessions because it nurtures vices rather than virtues: greediness, selfishness, hatred, fear....
If you enjoy Cormac McCarthy of Tom Wolfe, you should enjoy Selby's writing style.
