It seems this book has received massive amounts of acclaim, but I never heard of it until I decided to watch The Dark Knight. A preview for the movie Twilight came on and mentioned that it was based on the best-selling novel by Stephanie Meyer. Since the preview looked good and I prefer to read [...]
I started reading this series after I heard a rave review on NPR during their “Guilty Pleasures” segment.The middle-aged gentleman described Twilight with such enthusiasm that I couldn’t resist temptation.I bought the four-book set and settled in for a long weekend of reading.
Three days and 2400 pages later, I’d finished the four novels.I adored Twilight, [...]
It’s curious to me that this is the best-selling version of the King Arthur story in the kindle store, because it’s a singularly flawed collection, well-eclipsed by other variants that are also available for free online; I suspect its popularity is an artifact of the search engine, not the book’s own merits.
The author, Sir James [...]
When I began reading The Last Song, my first thought was this is the perfect book to read to finish out the summer. I thought it would be light, but an enjoyable read. To my delight, it became so much more as I read more of Ronnie’s story.
Ronnie and her brother Jonah are sent to [...]
I have long wanted to read this book by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was one of the first books I downloaded when I got my kindle 2. The character portrayals are superb. It analyses the thoughts, motivations, strengths and weaknesses of the four major characters in the story – Hester Prynn, the vengeful doctor, the hapless [...]
The idea of “reviewing” this is more than a little silly — it’s arguably the most influential non-religious work of all time — but I thought a few comments & historical notes might still be worthwhile.
“The Prince” was essentially the first work of political realism in Western thought — the first work of Western political [...]