Posts Tagged ‘ books ’

#19 Diary of a Bad Year

  • September 17th, 2010
  • Posted in Fiction

I’m kind of sleepy and don’t have much time, so this is going to be more of a “yes I read another book” post than anything worthwhile. This was my first novel by J. M. Coetzee and I doubt it’ll be my last. The response to my reading it by father and a friend has [ READ MORE ]

#18 On the Road

  • August 13th, 2010
  • Posted in Fiction

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect before starting Jack Kerouac’s classic, On the Road, and I’m still not quite sure how to feel now that I’ve finished it. Yes, I enjoyed it, quite a bit actually. But I didn’t particularly feel blown away by it as others have claimed to be. As someone who’s [ READ MORE ]

#17 In Cold Blood

  • July 29th, 2010
  • Posted in Fiction

Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is, by far, one of the most powerful books I have ever read. I am not sure if I have ever had such a violent reaction to written work. The story is based upon investigations and interviews Capote performed on the 1959 matter of the Kansas based Clutter family. Long [ READ MORE ]

#16 The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and Other Stories

It has been weeks since I last finished a book! Disaster! To be fair, I did just move continents and this collection of Jack London stories could almost count for a couple of novellas. I figured it was only fitting to read a bit of Jack London prior to arriving in his native San Francisco. [ READ MORE ]

#15 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I’ve let myself slip yet again! I am now 4 books behind where I should be. I foresee December being filled with a bit of reading madness. This is the second time I’ve read Mark Twain’s classic, the first time being for a high school English class. Although I enjoyed it back then, I absolutely [ READ MORE ]

#14 The Age of Innocence

  • April 30th, 2010
  • Posted in Fiction

How on earth have I never read any of Edith Wharton’s works before? In school I had to read A Midsummer Night’s Dream twice, Beowulf three times, endless epic poems, multiple Steinbecks, stories of war, bravery, and witchcraft (told from a male’s perspective). The only assigned female authors I can really remember reading were Harper [ READ MORE ]

#12 The Scarlet Letter

  • April 15th, 2010
  • Posted in Fiction

I’m pretty tired right now and happen to be watching Spaceballs, which is my favorite movie of all time, so this post is going to be even more crap than usual. I was anticipating to not really care too much for Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic, The Scarlet Letter, and was pleasantly surprised by it. The beginning was a [ READ MORE ]

#11 Cat’s Cradle

  • April 8th, 2010
  • Posted in Fiction

This was the second Kurt Vonnegut book I’ve read, the first being Breakfast of Champions, which I read about 3 years ago. Several friends of mine are huge Vonnegut fans so I figured I’d give the guy a chance. Breakfast of Champions was certainly funny, but didn’t really have me rushing out to buy more. [ READ MORE ]

#10 The Time Traveler’s Wife

  • April 4th, 2010
  • Posted in Fiction

First things first: Congratulations to myself for being one fifth of the way through my goal! Only 40 more books to read this year! The bad thing is that I should be completing my 14th book this week, so I’ve still got a bit of catching up to do. The sad thing is that I [ READ MORE ]

#9 The Old Man and the Sea

  • April 1st, 2010
  • Posted in Fiction

In the last post you may have noticed that I mentioned my distaste for most American literature, Earnest Hemmingway being one of the authors I didn’t care for all too much. Well, I figured that I might as well give the old sod another go. I first read The Old Man and the Sea when [ READ MORE ]

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