Review:This text is wonderfully insightful and profoundly persuasive. His language is concise, expressive and impossible to resist. His arguments are nearly impossible to argue against and the very natures of the writings are incredibly persuasive.

I am not going to go into tremendous detail explaining every aspect and every nuance of the text. I am sure you have a great many other things to do than sit and read my interpenetration of this book. First and foremost, for I am no book critic, a... Read more

Review:Daphne du Maurier has a very rare talent, and that is to concisely describe the little details that make up such a great part of her stories. She notices the dust on the windowsill, a certain glance of light, the ant crawling through the grass, and turns it from a trivial, fleeting thought into a concrete one. It's so natural. The human mind is capable of so many thoughts, but few human minds can capture them so perfectly.
But enough digression... This was a grand and glorious book, about a g... Read more

Review:As a native French speaker and having read Emile Zola in my teens (some years ago..) I am very disappointed to see words spelled without the accents! Not nice to read like this. Please, please correct this also for those who are learning French. I have always loved Emile Zola's books and wish to reread them but this makes it hard. Read more

Review:This is, without a doubt the most horrendous, shockingly cruel piece of garbage our species has ever produced. I only give it two stars because of how amazingly creative (NOT A COMPLEMENT) this person was. When i first heard about it it was said that it contained (among other things) several hundred brief descriptions of bizarre sex acts, which i didn't think was possible... but holy hell did he ever pull it off. The man's mind was a bottomless cesspool of depravity. Children are skinned ali... Read more

Review:This is a complex book. And an extremely slow one. It works because the way it languidly develops many uncommon themes:

- The protagonist is a person without any ideologies or loyalties. This is what makes him a perfect spy, as he is someone without any ambitions for the self as well. He leads a remarkable life of random twists and turns - that are a product of circumstances and never of any design - spanning all five Cold War decades and in a handful of era-defining geographies.
- At ... Read more

Review:Independent People, by Halldór Laxness is a realist epic novel by the Icelandic author.

The novel is the engrossing story of Bjartur of Summerhouses, an impoverished sheep farmer who has managed to buy a tiny piece of land after 18 years of slavery at the local Bailiff. The central theme of the narrative is Bjartur’s struggle to stay an independent man i.e, self dependence- to be in debt to no one. To this end, he has to fight forces bigger than himself - harsh and forbidding nature, the ... Read more

Review:Fante was writing in a different literary world. While Charles Bukowski's introduction expresses his own fascination with Fante's exposition of Depression Los Angeles, the novelist fails to present anything but stick-figure characters. (It's clear why Fante was more successful at screenplays than novels: he writes scenes.) I'd always wanted to read Fante. Okay, I've done it. I don't have to read another. Read more

Review:I was looking for a lighthearted romance but this is not it. it is just SILLY. I was totally turned off by the people who are supposed to be best of the best, ie the TON, richest folks in town who continue to use words like ain't, and don't, and other slang. the explanation that it was all the rage is just sad. and detracts from the story for me. the hero and heroine are both the stupidest people around. rich yes, but stupid with it. AND it keeps getting worse and worse as they kept doing stup... Read more

Review:CS Lewis does a wonderful job defining the four Greek words for Love. I would recommend this book most highly to the man (women are less likely to make this error) who thinks he needs no friends. Lewis shows the importance of friendship to a good life. Read more

Review:First, the best. Heinlein writes more vividly and with better style here than he did in any novel before or after. Only some of his crackerjack short stories and novelettes compare to the pacing and clever plotting found here. Like other sf writers in the 60s, he started responding to the more "respectable" literature outside the field, and unless I miss my mark was influenced by the bastardized Russian of Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962). Indisputably the best character in this novel (as... Read more