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Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (Paperback, 1988, Del Rey / Ballantine Books) 4 stars

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...

The system was …

A Classic... that I absolutely disliked from page 5 forward...

3 stars

A slog. The idea I get, but ugh. I hated the writing style, the way it progressed. I just did not like much of this book at all. Which is probably why I recall nothing about it from high school when I first read it 3x years ago.

Dennis Lehane: Live by night (2012, William Morrow) 4 stars

In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a …

Problems, and then... alright

3 stars

I have some real problems with this book. It ended okay, earned, perhaps, but to get there, some truly unearned and incoherent stuff has to happen. And jiminy can Lehane just once describe a thing and leave the similes alone? At least the simile should make sense.

The story, at the end, I enjoyed. But, the beats? The rhythm? Not so much.

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (Paperback, 1986, Berkley Books) 4 stars

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable …

Goodness. I have thoughts, but how to express them. Through interpretive dance, or perhaps by writing my own novel, one of a descent into madness motivated by love, love lost long ago and stolen back more recently, a love whose terrible indecency makes it hard to call love... Or perhaps, I simply read the book and love it fully.

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita (Paperback, 1986, Berkley Books) 4 stars

Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable …

I've started this book a couple different times, always putting it down at some juncture. I just read the "Forward" and am absolutely bedeviled by the language Mr. Nabokov uses. I know I will love the book when I finally finish this time.