Book Reviews
Book Review: Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Lunar Park doesn’t seem to be an out-and-out hit, if the Goodreads rating is to be used as a meter, but I quite enjoyed it.
Book Review: Liberation Day by George Saunders | Short Story Collection
I took only two English classes in college (unfortunately), but both of them assigned stories by George Saunders, and thus began my interest in his work. This was the third (?) story collection I read of his, and I enjoyed it very much.
Book Review: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
I picked up this book because of its premise.
Book Review: It by Stephen King (A Rant) | SPOILER REVIEW
Which is creepier: Pennywise, or the way Stephen King wrote the main female child character of this book?
Book Review: Despair by Vladimir Nabokov | SPOILER REVIEW
Like Lolita , this book brings readers disorientingly under the spell of a bizarre narrator with an uncommon way with words.
Book Review: Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
I knew I would like this book after the New Yorker described it as centering “around Alice Law and Peter Murdoch, two graduate students who venture to Hell to rescue their adviser Professor Grimes, who has recently died. He was a cruel mentor, yet they fear that they will never succeed on the job market without securing a letter of recommendation from him.”…
The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis (SPOILER REVIEW) | Ending Explained
In my opinion, there is a limit to the amount of ambiguity that a story can sustain. If you cross the limit, it goes from being interesting and mind-bendy to just making the reader feel a bit slow.
Book Review: Private Citizens by Tony Tulathimutte
After reading Tony Tulathimutte’s short story collection Rejection I knew that I had found a new favorite contemporary author. And picking up his novel, Private Citizens, next, did not disappoint.
Book Review: Lab Dog by Melanie D. G. Kaplan
As an animal rights activist who is also a biology student, little has weighed on me more heavily in my day-to-day life than the ubiquity of biomedical animal testing.
Book Review: The Stand by Stephen King | SPOILER REVIEW
Wouldn’t we be better off without all this gosh darn technology?
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