Movie Review: Iron Man

Director: Jon Favreau
Genre: Action/Adventure/Drama/Sci-fi/Thriller
Year: 2008

The way I see this, its like what Transformers was supposed to be. A better Transformers, yes. You got the big, bad ass robots, you got the excitement and the explosions and all the good stuff people go see in action movies and then you add to it what Transformers did [...]

Book Review: Lolita

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Category: Fiction

A classic and one that I had placed in my list for a long while now and just never dared to buy. I did not realize just how bad it must look for me to go and read Lolita after reading Oryx and Crake, which as I mentioned dealt with some issues [...]

Book Review: Oryx & Crake

Author: Margaret Atwood
Category: Fiction

In what is probably described as a Sci-fi/post apocalyptic novel, Atwood gives us a frighteningly realistic bleak vision of the future, in which we follow the last of the humans, a bearded, naked man who clothes himself with a sheet, and who goes by the name of Snowman.

As we meet him, the [...]

Book Review: Cien Años de Soledad

Author: Miguel García Márquez
Category: Fiction – Magical Realism/Drama

Not the first time I read the book, to be honest. My dad had actually recommended it to me back in High School and I had indeed picked it up and read it cover to cover, mostly during one long swim meet weekend, between heats. However, reading it [...]