Reviews and Comments

JasonsGrooveMachine

jasonsgroovemachine@bookwyrm.social

Joined 10 months, 1 week ago

Cat dad, movie buff, drinking man with a guitar problem, good at video games, a voice and a face for radio.

This link opens in a pop-up window

reviewed The Plague by Albert Camus (Modern library college editions)

Albert Camus: The Plague (Paperback, 1965, McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages)

The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that …

Did Not Disappoint

This is the first Camus I've ever read and I greatly enjoyed it. It wasn't at all what I was expecting given what I've learned about him through other channels, but it was excellent.

My one regret is that I didn't read it before Covid so I'll never be able to tell how it affected me having read it again after.

reviewed Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake (The Titus trilogy -- 1)

Mervyn Peake: Titus Groan (1989, Mandarin)

This is the first of the Gormenghast trilogy and introduces the reader to Gormenghast Castle …

TaleFoundry was very wrong.

This one was a struggle for me.

Part of the problem, I think, is that the youtube channel that described the book to me called it "Dr. Seuss writing gothic horror." It's not that. Not even close.

It took a while to get going but about 2/3 in I did really get interested.

Michael Crichton: Easy Go (Paperback, 2013, Hard Case Crime)

Easy Read

Pretty solid little book. Very early Michael Crichton. Nothing spectacular but a good enough little crime novel to keep me - someone who isn't into them - interested.

Christopher Moore: Coyote Blue (Paperback, 2004, Harper Paperbacks)

Coyote Blue is a novel by American writer Christopher Moore, published in 1994. The plot …

Not my favorite Christopher Moore book, but it's a good one. Plus, thanks to this book, I asked ol' Christ if there's a chronological order to all of these books and he said yes, kind of.

James Joyce, James Joyce: Ulysses (1922, Shakespeare and Company)

Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It was first serialized in …

I Get It

After getting through this here's what I've got.

This is a book that happens in 3 halves. I know how that sounds but it's the best way to describe it.

The first half? Fantastic. Loved it. Second half? Confusing as hell. All over the place. And I feel a lot of what's in here could have been left out. Third half? Fantastic. Loved it.