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Khaled Hosseini: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 4 stars

1970s Afghanistan: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal …

Review of 'The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

this book is easy to read. i liked the writing and the characters in the first 1/3 of the book.

i have no sympathy for the protagonist. i can’t believe that he only decided to go rescue hassan’s son after he finds out that hassan is his brother by blood. that is so weaksauce…. amir jan you gotta be kidding me. his indolence makes me furious sometimes. if i were baba i’d be disappointed in him too.

it is a very exciting and riveting tale, i guess… fates often intertwine, melodramatic coincidences push the story forward. but i don’t think it’s the book to read if you are looking for a perspective on afghan history. those parts were often skimmed over. i found the more domestic acts (like his whole love story with soraya, and his idle days in america) a chore to read. maybe this is a cultural thing …

Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game (1994, TOR Books) 4 stars

Ender's Game is a 1985 military science fiction novel by American author Orson Scott Card. …

Review of "Ender's Game" on 'Goodreads'

1 star

I finished reading this today. I planned on dropping it about 30% of the way through. A couple days ago I was really inebriated, and Ender's Game was about all I could read in that state, so I ended up finishing it after all.
I don't enjoy reading about a character who never loses. All the grief and trauma Ender goes through seems to only be written for his accomplishments to be even more impressive. The writing is so self-indulgent and gratuitious that I almost feel bad for making fun of it. If I was a bullied little kid, this book would probably mean a lot to me.

Elie Wiesel: Night (Paperback, 2008, Hill and Wang) 4 stars

Born in the town of Sighet, Transylvania, Elie Wiesel was a teenager when he and …

Review of 'Night, Elie Wiesel' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

so lucid it felt as though i was there. but i could always put down the book and go back to eating snacks and staring at my toes in the warm shower. i cant believe this was someone's life. im really sorry to him.

Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (1993) 4 stars

Review of "The Play of Daniel Keyes' Flowers for Algernon" on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

im torn on this book.

the best part was when they were at the summit and charlie lets algernon out of the cage. i really wish charlie just took algernon along with him and had an adventure with him a la ratatouille. i hate the women in this book, not because i hate women, but because they are strange boring and single-faceted. when fay appeared i had a real facepalm moment. like another reviewer said, charlie really does not have his damn priorities straight at all.

i really liked the scifi concept and i think it was executed well. i liked the way he rediscovered his past.

journal entry: i relate a lot to charlie. i had substance abuse problems as a teenager and it really destroyed my memory and degraded my brain tissue. i also experienced a lot of trauma that locked away a lot of my memories of …

Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Paperback, 1996, Ballantine Books) 4 stars

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill. Somewhere among the …

Review of 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

i watched bladerunner a couple years ago, so im very qualified to denounce it and in fact, all films. this book is pretty good.
i like this interpretation of androids. they are cute and awkward. i also like the worldbuilding, and the various scifi technologies. it was very cyberpunk and angsty. i like the emotion machine, the electric animals, the dust, the kipple. I really like John Isidore.
EMPATHY is such a precious element of this book. it turns it inside out, it rocks my world.
im too lazy to write a full review sorry, maybe ill revisit this.

Tao Lin: Shoplifting from American apparel (2009, Melville House Pub.) 2 stars

Set mostly in Manhattan—although also featuring Atlantic City, Brooklyn, GMail Chat, and Gainsville, Florida—this autobiographical …

Review of 'Shoplifting from American apparel' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

pretty funny haha. it tries to capture the repetitious drudgery of suhciety in an interesting but awkward way. would like to read more like this concept tho.

Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea (1996, Scribner) 4 stars

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in …

Review of 'The old man and the sea' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

i dont know how what when or why this story about an old man catching a damn fish touched me as much as it did. i started off like any other impatient idiot in their early 20s, cynical and afraid of sentiment. thought this was gonna turn out real cliche and quaint. i didnt believe that an old man could teach me a life lesson by catching a fish. i put it down because it was slow, i thought i would forget about it. but for some reason, when i picked up any other book, the pace felt too rushed and i found myself missing the open sea.
longest 50 pages of my life! cant believe how much i love and respect that fish!