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SciFi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more …
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times bestselling All Systems …
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New …
I am Murderbot.
Outside Los Angeles, a driver pulls up to find a young woman sitting on a large, black box. She offers …
When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest …
The story just didn't resonate like the others, and it really felt like a middle chapter in a larger book. It was fine, but definitely part of a journey, not a destination in its self.
Acceptance was the slowest going for me so far in this series. It's well written, and interesting to be presented with the new perspectives on the characters. What you thought you knew in the previous books were likely lies, half truths, misunderstandings.
Frankly, I'm not even convinced that I know what happened at this point. This feels like the sort of series that would benefit from another read through at the end.
What Area X is doesn't matter, what happened to the Biologist or Saul or Grace also doesn't matter. Everything so far feels incidental, as back up singers for something we haven't even seen yet.
"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, …
The last thirty or so pages of this book couldn't be read fast enough. After a long, seemingly repetitive 90%, the last 10% were a race. I feel like I missed so much in John's conspiratorial thoughts, and in the surrounding characters. Where the first book had strangeness at its core, this one has complacency, normalness at the center.
The weird seeps in at the edges, slowly polluting the environment of the book. I honestly can't begin to guess what is in the next two books. Most assuredly, I expect that there will be few definite answers upcoming.
The Catcher in the Rye is a novel by J. D. Salinger, partially published in …
Last week, I watched a documentary about the elusive author J.D. Salinger. A number of med talked about the reclusive author down to tell them how much they loved his writing, and how much they identified with Holden Caulfield in Catcher In The Rye. One mentioned that when he cornered the author and told him how amazing the book was and how J.D. really SPOKE to him through his writing. The way the interview subject talked, Salinger can upset by this and quite rude.
I thought I'd read Catcher to see what the big deal was, and maybe it wasn't just a book that spoke to lonely alienated boys looking for something to blame. Reading this, however, I feel like I'm paging through the mind of an 8chan incel. Maybe it's not such a big wonder why lone gunmen adore this book.
Holden isn't special, and he's no rebel. Rebels …
Last week, I watched a documentary about the elusive author J.D. Salinger. A number of med talked about the reclusive author down to tell them how much they loved his writing, and how much they identified with Holden Caulfield in Catcher In The Rye. One mentioned that when he cornered the author and told him how amazing the book was and how J.D. really SPOKE to him through his writing. The way the interview subject talked, Salinger can upset by this and quite rude.
I thought I'd read Catcher to see what the big deal was, and maybe it wasn't just a book that spoke to lonely alienated boys looking for something to blame. Reading this, however, I feel like I'm paging through the mind of an 8chan incel. Maybe it's not such a big wonder why lone gunmen adore this book.
Holden isn't special, and he's no rebel. Rebels DO something, but Holden only whines about things. Everything is someone else's fault. His room mate at school did this or that and caused him to get distracted. People who like something are stupid for liking it. Women are ugly and stupid because they aren't with him.
Holden is a sad little boy who is alienated and self-absorbed. Sure, he's sixteen and a loser, but he's hardly rebelling against anything. He sees only the faults in others and sees only (imagined) good in himself. Even when he sounds a bit self-deprecating, the core of his problems is someone else.
Holden might be a nihilist, but he's no rebel.
If Holden was Salinger inserting himself into the main character, then maybe the author's self seclusion was a service to humanity.
"I don't want to scare you," he said, "but I can very clearly see you dying nobly, one way or another, for some highly unworthy cause." Mr. Antolini from Catcher In The Rye
Okay, maybe J.D. Salinger could see Holden as a lone shooter.