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Umberto Eco I had heard so much hype about Umberto Eco, that I feel a bit disappointed with this book. Clearly it was good enough to finish. You will notice that most of the reviews I do are decent to good reviews, the reason being, if a book is bad, likely I won’t waste my [...]
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Dave Eggers Not fiction, while not exactly a memoir either, this book falls somewhere in between with the author openly admitting that he has embellished that which he felt like embellishing and glossed over that which he felt like glossing over while also putting under the microscope some of the strangest events of his life. [...]
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Fyodor Dosteyevski – translated by: Pevear/Volokhonsky The plan is easy, perfectly planned out and it is not one that hinges on petty thievery either, even if that is how it appear to initially be. No, the killer, a young Russian former student named Raskolnikov now plagued by starvation and poverty, knows the reason behind the [...]
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Cormac McCarthy After a horrible catastrophy takes place (possibly nuclear), the world burns, and all that is left is its charred remains and small pockets of survivors. A man and his son, know that it will become increasingly difficult to survive the cold weather of the northern lands, and so they set off to head [...]
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Mark Z. Danielewski Somehow, I keep tossing myself in the strangest books. I tell myself that I need to return to some normal reading for a bit, but time and again I keep going back to experimental reading. Having loaded my last batch of reading with books like “Naked Lunch”, “The Time Traveller’s Wife” and [...]
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Italo Calvino I have been on an experimental kick, which has been fun, I must say, and this one is the latest addition to it. Having read books like House of Leaves and Naked Lunch has really stretched my literary muscles. This book achieves the same in a slightly different way and though it will [...]
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Chuck Palahniuk More than a novel, this book is a collection of short stories strung together by a single storyline revolving around 20 or so characters and a very messed up situation. If you have read any of Chuck Palahniuk’s work, then you know that the man has an uncanny ability to find something really [...]
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Albert Camus I’ll be forward about the fact that I am about to give this book a review it does not deserve. I am aware enough to know that even if I did not enjoy this book as much as it shoudl have, the literary work is still very good. The story itself interesting, dealing [...]
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William S. Burroughs Forget you ever read a book in your life. All the standards and rules and everything you have read up to this point, just toss it out the window because it will do you absolutely no good when reading this book. In fact, it will probably be detrimental. This is probably the [...]
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Uzodinma Iweala What’s that? You had a bad childhood? Dad spanked you with a leather belt because you punched your brother? Mommy didn’t let you go out with your friends because they were hanging out with college boys? You only had one electronic game console and it was not the most current one? Damn, that [...]