A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.
On the second reading, a decade after the first, I finally got this book.
The Expanse books often focus on aspects of the story that I just can’t seem to care about.
What is a war story? What is an anti-war story?
read more All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
This might be the most well-written book I disliked reading.
What does it mean when you are struggling with a book that, by all descriptions, you should easily love?
For a person who doesn’t care much for horror, I rather enjoyed this.
There is a lot buried in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s ‘The Expert System’s Brother’
A book that is a rehash of a TV show could be disappointing, unless it is a really good TV show.
read more Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Safe Drivers – Grant Naylor
Some books challenge you directly. Other can challenge you indirectly.
Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.
read more The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)