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Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...
The system was …
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.
Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires...
The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books …
In 1926, during the Prohibition, Joe Coughlin defies his strict law-and-order upbringing by climbing a …
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.
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable …
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.
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.
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist …
A weird and funny little tale of love and food and how the two combine to make magic.
Like Water for Chocolate (Spanish: Como agua para chocolate) is a novel by Mexican novelist …
A sweet, pretty weird little book. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it.
You would never know that we are only 100 years from having had nearly an entire state taken over (3, actually) by the Ku Klux Klan. Worse, the way DC Stephenson is portrayed in this book sounds like some crazy "billionaire" lunatic I had the misfortune of watching on television tonight. Alas... they all get theirs in the end, right?
I’ve always chased thrills—dark, risky, and dangerous—because it's the only way I feel alive after …
I got about 70% through this miserable, horribly written tale and skimmed the rest so I didn't take on any more bad habits from reading this poorly written example of... drek.
Hidden in the heart of the old city of Barcelona is the 'Cemetery of Forgotten Books', a labyrinthine library of …
Barcelona, 1957. It is the week before Christmas in the Sempere & Sons bookshop. Daniel Sempere is happily married to …
Barcelona, 1957. It is the week before Christmas in the Sempere & Sons bookshop. Daniel …
I am of the belief that Ruiz Zafron is an amazing author. This story is a bridge, though. An amuse bouche. It tells us some history we didn't know, completes a circle that I presume we'll need for the final story in the cycle of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.
