Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage โฆ
The Secret Sharer
4 stars
Content warning A hard read but ...
I was so relieved it had a happy ending.
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Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizeโwinning British author William Golding. โฆ
Nice Island, Shitty Kids
4 stars
I went into this book with a pretty correct idea about what it would be about. It reminded me of every job I've ever had; a bunch of childish boys trying to decide who's in charge.
What surprised me is that it was actually a nice little tropical vacation of sorts. I should have read it in wintertime.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ finished reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizeโwinning British author William Golding. โฆ
That got better toward the end, once I got used to the prose and all the beachy island visual descriptions. I kinda hated all the characters, so it wasn't so bad watching them learn their lessons. I sort of wish there had been more natural danger; some predator, some illness, one or two of them dying from natural causes maybe. I knew what I was getting into though--social strife--and there was a lot of that.
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizeโwinning British author William Golding. โฆ
As someone who suffers from social anxiety, this book is a horror story
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ started reading Man's Search for Himself by Rollo May
I asked AI for a good book to read while having a midlife crisis
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Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizeโwinning British author William Golding. โฆ
Growing up in Arkansas they never made us read this, so I guess I have some catching up to do.
Movie's better
3 stars
I enjoyed this book; it's funny like the movie is. There was a lot of stories that didn't make it into the screenplay, but none of it was any good. This is one case where the movie really is better than the book.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ finished reading Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
Well, I finished it, but I was really skimming towards the end. Still, it held my attention a lot better than most books, probably because of how random and fast paced it was.
This is getting tedious; no sooner has Forrest lost his wrestling career (which he was very good at) than he is discovered by a chess champion, who takes him to LA where he is discovered by a film director.
The moral of the film seemed to be "follow your heart" but the moral of the book seems to be "hope that some kind stranger sees your potential and takes care of you"
Around chapter 12 shit goes entirely off the rails. Until then just about everything in the book made it to the movie in some form, but then Forrest Gump goes to space! The writing devolves into looney tunes caricature. They send him into space with a monkey that likes bananas and a woman, but they crash land in Borneo and get captured by cannibals who make them pick cotton, the female astronaut gets married to a tribesman named Guruck, and the chief (who talks with a New England accent because he went to Yale) teaches Forrest to play chess and finally tries to eat him after he finally manages to get him in check.
It's been a while since I watched the movie, and I might be getting things mixed up with Apollo 13, but I don't think Tom Hanks was ever about to be boiled alive in a giant โฆ
Around chapter 12 shit goes entirely off the rails. Until then just about everything in the book made it to the movie in some form, but then Forrest Gump goes to space! The writing devolves into looney tunes caricature. They send him into space with a monkey that likes bananas and a woman, but they crash land in Borneo and get captured by cannibals who make them pick cotton, the female astronaut gets married to a tribesman named Guruck, and the chief (who talks with a New England accent because he went to Yale) teaches Forrest to play chess and finally tries to eat him after he finally manages to get him in check.
It's been a while since I watched the movie, and I might be getting things mixed up with Apollo 13, but I don't think Tom Hanks was ever about to be boiled alive in a giant cauldron by a tribe of bone-lipped stereotypes.
Flying through this book. Sure is a fun read!
such an easy read when your inner dialog has a southern drawl
just lost interest, might finish
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ stopped reading The coming fury by Bruce Catton (The centennial history of the American Civil War ;)
Excellent Introduction to the civil war.ist of a trilogy by one of its best historians
This is kinda dry. It's like the Timeline episodes that I watch on YouTube to fall asleep.
For twenty years, the lessons from The Pragmatic Programmer have helped a generation of programmers โฆ
Yeah, I'm not gonna read this shit again. I'm too old for this.