Posted in Book Reviews on Aug 19th, 2008 2 Comments »
Song of the Day: Forget Her – Jeff Buckley Author: Alan Moore Category: Fiction – Graphic Novel So it took me this long to finally read what many people claim to arguably be the greatest graphic novel of all time: The Watchmen. That argument has been given to me for a while and perhaps it [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on Aug 14th, 2008 1 Comment »
Song of the Day: Kissing Families – Silversun Pickups Author: David Mitchell Category: Fiction There are books that hook you, grip you and will not let you go until you finish them and this one is one of those, falling in the category of Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Atwood’s Oryx & Crake, and though thematically [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Author: Mark Haddon Category: Fiction – Adventure/Autism Effectively ‘Dog’ would be a story categorized almost as a children’s book, if it did not deal with a handful of issues that are rather adult in nature. The main character is Christopher, an autistic 15 year old who sets out to write a detective novel trying to [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 8th, 2008 No Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Michel Houellebecq There’s another fun last name for you to play with and an author I had been eyeing for a while, particularly his other popular novel “Platform”, but for whatever reason I started with this one instead. It is a short read, a little more than 200 hundred pages, and a fast read, relating [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
David Mitchell There are books that just…grab you by the throat and pick you up and slam you over the desk time and time again and leave you all disheveled, with a weird tingly feeling in the nether regions and the idea that you have just had your mind blown. This is such a book. [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Yann Martel Kudos to Yann for taking The out of the title and just starting with the word Life. It sounds a lot more engaging that way. And kudos to my wife for convincing me to read this. She bought it a good half a year before I even heard of it and she read [...]
Posted in Book Reviews on May 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
Paul Auster A bit of an old school read here, and by old school I mean, more mid 20th Century, not freaking Shakespeare, but you can definitely tell in the way tell in the way this book unfolds. That is not necessarily a bad thing, but it does have a bit of the slower pace [...]