Fiction – Page 9 – Failures in Polymathy

The Book Thief – Markus Zusak

I didn’t get it. I just flat out didn’t get any of it.

2021, What a time to read this book.

Reading the so called classics often leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. This is one of the few that I actually enjoyed.

This book will haunt me till my dying day. Me and The Sun Also Rises have a torrid history. This

Sometimes I wonder why I bother. There is a legitimate fear in me that I no longer have the brain

A highly acclaimed book of short stories.

Better than the middle novel but still not nearly as good as the first, this final installment still feels very peripheral to Oryx and Crake.

Here is a thought – The Bobiverse is nerd-cred done right.

I once thought that reviewing a longer series would be a good idea, but as I got on with this one I felt that there were diminishing returns.

Reading this made me realize that my brain just won’t register horror in any normal way.